A Research Article in which the authors show how organised crime is adapting to emerging economic, technological and regulatory environments, outlining priorities for future policy and research.
A photo essay following the path of a member of the modern ’ndrangheta as he leverages global markets from Düsseldorf to Melbourne while preserving social authority linked to his Calabrian heritage.
A Professional Insight drawing on field experience to illustrate the ongoing strategic shift among criminal networks towards illicit trade in legal commodities.
A Research Article in which the authors examine the evolution of UN responses to transnational organised crime, calling for renewed political will and more flexible forms of cooperation.
The former executive director of Police Services at Interpol offers a Professional Insight arguing that intergovernmental law enforcement is constrained by structural misalignment.
Building on experience in Russia, China, the Western Balkans and Spain’s Costa del Sol, this Research Article shows how criminal networks perform system-level functions as structurally integrated actors within contemporary geopolitics.
A Research Article in which the authors use a state-domain matrix to map how states outsource covert tasks to criminal networks, proposing cross-government cells to better integrate responses.
A Research Article arguing that organised crime is underweighted in UK intelligence prioritisation processes despite its centrality to hostile-state operations, reframing the issue as a core component of the national security landscape.
Authors from policing, academic and think tank backgrounds team up on a Professional Insight examining how fast-paced technological change has transformed digital crime from a niche issue to a national security problem.
Based on direct field observations, a Professional Insight illustrating how scam compounds fuse digital, physical, financial and political threats within a single, highly integrated operational ecosystem.
A Research Article exploring the politics of criminal governance in Latin America and the Caribbean, warning of the risks posed by hardening domestic and regional responses.
Based on experience in northern Nigeria, a Professional Insight examining the shifting nexus between organised crime and ideology, and the implications for traditional understandings of these concepts.
A Research Article drawing on fieldwork across Europe to examine how organised crime embeds itself in legal economies and institutions, exposing vulnerabilities across current policy approaches.
Jennifer Scotland reviews Criminality, Political Power and Conflict: Critical Perspectives, edited by José Antonio Gutiérrez and Francisco Gutiérrez-Sanín.
