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OC24 Podcast
by Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
Experts, analysts and scholars from around the world came together for the 24 Hour Conference on Global Organized Crime, to discuss the most fascinating research into organized crime.
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Season 2! Underworlds with Mark Shaw - Underworlds with Mark Shaw
Underworlds with Mark Shaw is returning for another season. Mark sits down with authors to discuss their investigations into the murky world of organized crime. In season two, we hear about a range of stories such as money laundering and cryptocurrency; the 'Ndrangheta's expansion from Calabria,...
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Non-State Armed Groups and Illicit Economies in West Africa
This session will explore how armed groups in West and Central Africa draw revenue, resources, and legitimacy through their engagement with (il)licit economies. As greater focus in research to date has been given to the question of armed group financing, this session will instead focus on the how...
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Organized Corruption in Asia and the Pacific
In this discussion, the panellists discuss organized corruption in Asia and the Pacific. Louise Taylor, Director - Observatory of Illicit Economies in Asia and the Pacific, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime Cynthia Gabriel, Centre to Combat Corruption & Cronyism (C4) Grant...
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Book presentation: Organized Crime During the Prohibition Era
This book aims to highlight the causes why the Prohibition Era led to an evolution of the New York mob from a rural, ethnic and small-scale to an urban, American and wide-scale crime. The temperance project, advocated by the WASP elite since the early nineteenth century, turned into prohibition...
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New Directions in Cryptocurrency and Financial Crimes
The evolution of cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies continues to transform organised crime, cybercrime, and financial crime. This panel brings together researchers exploring emerging trends in cryptocurrency and financial crimes. Key topics in presentations will include: the emerging...
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The Battle against Fisheries Related Crimes in Indonesia
Indonesia, straddling Southeast Asia and Oceania along the equator, is the world’s largest archipelagic state with roughly 17,500 islands. Its status as an archipelago was formalized by the 1957 Djuanda Declaration and later affirmed in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea...
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The Role of Technology in Combating Organized Crime
The role of technology in combating organized crime emerges as a central theme in our webinar discussion, featuring six esteemed speakers who contribute diverse perspectives on this critical issue. We delve into how advancements in technology are reshaping strategies against various forms of...
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Gangs: Insights from India, Colombia and Jamaica
The panel entitled "Gangs: Insights from India, Colombia, and Jamaica" presents a comprehensive exploration of gang dynamics across these three diverse contexts. The discourse initiates with Sangeeta Roy, who delves into the ethno migrant masculinities of Bihari youth in India, elucidating how…
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Peace Negotiations with Organized Crime: the Case of Medellín, Colombia
This panel will discuss the results of a research lead by Fundación Ideas para la Paz that highlights several challenges in the so called “Urban Peace Negotiations” with organized crime in Medellín, the second largest and prosperous city in Colombia. Colombia’s National Government is trying to...
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Book presentation: Ticket Touting and the Black Market
Alessandro Moretti’s ‘The Rise and Rise of Illegal Ticket Touting’ is a criminological ethnography of the black market in buying and selling tickets to live events and is the first criminological study in the United Kingdom to explore ticket touts. The opening chapter acts as a position statement...
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Fentanyl and Third Gen Gangs Latin America
This panel will assess illicit networks and fentanyl in Brazil, Mexico, and other Latin American countries using the 3rd GEN Gang literature and criminal insurgency as lenses. Fentanyl and other synthetic drugs have risen in importance and in the political rhetoric surrounding them due to high...
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How to build an Anti-Mafia association outside Italy: methods, difficulties, successes
We will share our experiences in the great environment of the 24 Hours Conference on Global Organised Crime. Particularly how mafiaindanke e.V. was founded, the difficulties we encountered and how we managed to find our role in the public discourse. During the discussion, we will show the…
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Ndrangheta in East Germany
Axel Hemmerling, Ludwig Kendzia, David Klaubert and Margherita Bettoni spent three years investigating when and how the Calabrian 'ndrangheta arrived in East Germany. They looked into newspaper archives, searched property register files, used FOIAs and talked to several sources in Germany and in...
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Open Data for Anti-Corruption: Case Studies from Around the World
One of the most efficient tools for promoting transparency, accountability, and good governance is open data technology. This panel will offer examples of how open data platforms can be used effectively and will consider opportunities for expanding the use of such data to improve good governance…
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Southeast Asia's Drug Trade: Developments and Challenges
During this session, panellists will discuss the latest developments, challenges, and outlooks on Southeast Asia's drug trade, alongside UNODC’s ongoing support to enhance cross-border collaboration and information sharing. The region's drug trade has been marked by a decade of growth in the...
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Crime and Conflict in Pakistan
This Roundtable Discussion will examine the interplay between politics and economics in the frontier peripheries and urban heartlands of Pakistan. Speakers Junaid Qureshi, Director European Foundation for South Asian Studies Dr. Prem Mahadevan, Specialised in research on organised crime,...
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Drugs, Thugs and Terrorism: the experience of India
This Roundtable Discussion will examine the question of how organized crime and political militancy interact in the Indian context. It will look at the role of mafia syndicates in perpetrating international terrorism, and will focus on Mumbai’s D-Company and drug gangs along the India-Pakistan...
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Environmental organized crime
This panel will discuss the main issues with illegal natural resources export and illegal tourism as well as the criminal activities, in relation to “China's mafia invasion” of the East Siberia region which was historically linked to the Silk Road. They will then talk about criminal law versus...
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Understanding & Responding to ‘Cuckooing’
The practice of ‘cuckooing’, where vulnerable people have their homes taken over, has generated significant policy and practice attention across the UK over the last ten years. While not exclusively, this has often been associated with the workings of illicit drug markets, with connections made…
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PAGAD vigilantism and South Africa state capacity to respond to Organized Crime
The Director of GITOC, Mark Shaw, will discuss his new book Breaking the Bombers: How the Hunt for PAGAD Created a Crack Police Unit. This talk touches on the features, implications, and risks associated with vigilantism, as well as the most effective responses within the framework of the rule of...
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COVID-19 and Organized Crime
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacts on all aspects of the society, economy and politics - and organized crime is among those affected globally. This panel discusses different aspects of how criminal groups have adapted during the pandemic including the look into the most common modi operandi used…
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Women in Organized Crime Groups in Latin America
This panel will discuss the latest research on women in OCGs in Latin America. Speakers will discuss their latest research and the chair will raise various issues. DEBORAH BONELLO Freelance video journalist based in Mexico City. ELAINE CAREY Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Oakland...
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Ireland: Organised crime, illicit enterprise and/or violent extremism
"The Irish organized crime milieu has been recognized for its distinction, derived from its characterization as ‘family gangs,’ its international mobility nature, and the influence of paramilitary groups - while remains understudied. On a transnational level, criminal markets across Ireland and…
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Cocaine hoppers: Nigerian international cocaine trafficking
Cocaine Hoppers provides empirical evidence to explain the involvement of Nigerians in the international cocaine trade. Investigating the criminogenic environment created by the Nigerian “state crisis”, it traces the geographic, demographic, economic, hist orical, political, and cultural factors...
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The structure and operation of outlaw motorcycle gangs: Australian and Dutch perspectives
OMCGs have been implicated in a range of organised criminal activities including narcotics manufacture and trafficking, prostitution, firearms trafficking, extortion and money laundering. In this session, four presentations will examine the structure and operation of OMCGs from Australian and…
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Ostrageous: How greed and crime erode professional football and we all look the other way
This book is the outcome of an analysis and reflection on crime risks and financial criminal activity taking place in European professional football in recent decades. Its main goal is to discuss some relevant criminological issues in relation to the financing and ownership of professional…
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Human traffickers: Organized criminals or neighbours, boyfriends, and aunties?
At this session, we will present articles published in a recent issue of the journal Anti-Trafficking Review, which focused on the theme ‘Traffickers’. The issue explored the characteristics, motivations, and modus operandi of those convicted or suspected of human trafficking, their relationships...
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Organized crime and Russian-Ukrainian War
In this session, Oleksii Serdyuk and Anna Markovska will present their paper on the level of war-time organized criminal activity in Ukraine by using media reports and anecdotal evidence from Kharkiv and Odesa. After this intervention, André Duffles Teixeira Aranega will present his findings on…
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Ports
This session, moderated by Fatjona Mejdini, will be dedicated to understanding the threats posed by illicit flows to maritime and port security. More specifically, panelists will discuss how and why illicit trade manifests in port premises and along rivers. Starting from the international...
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Contract killings and its impact in civil society: Avenues for monitoring and responding
Assassinations, or contract killings, have been largely used by criminal groups as a form of criminal governance: to exert territorial control and control of their illicit markets, targeted violence was commonly seen as the modus operandi by many groups. However, increasingly, the spill over of...
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Organized Crime in the UK
This roundtable will discuss the situation of organised crime in the UK and policy implications. FELIA ALLUM Professor of comparative organised crime and corruption, University of Bath, UK ELLA COCKBAIN Dr Ella Cockbain's research focuses primarily on human trafficking, child sexual abuse and...
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The missing links: Explaining the absence of debate on transnational organized crime in India
The purpose of the Roundtable is to identify why there is no academic or thinktank discourse focused on organized crime in India, especially when the phenomenon of mafia-style criminality touches upon such issues as national security (ie., terrorism), economic performance, democratic politics and...
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Assistance to victims of trafficking in persons
Worldwide, 50% of detected human trafficking victims are victims of sexual exploitation. To respond to this crime, among the main aspects to be strengthened are the protection and assistance of victims. This panel will discuss how to provide better services for the rescue, rehabilitation, and...
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Organised crime in France
This panel will discuss how difficult it is to analyse organised crime in France. A talk by Déborah Alimi, Jacques Follorou, Tommaso Giuriati and Fabrice Rizzoli
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Organized corruption: Manifestations, impact and remedies
This panel looks ‘organized corruption’ in the Western Balkans – a symbiosis of organized crime, criminal methods and high-level corruption, which creates a crooked ecosystem that enriches and protects those with access to power. Together with experts from the region, the panel will examine how...
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Organised oil crime in Nigeria. The Delta paradox: Organised criminals or community saviours?
Niger Delta oil crime is one of the most serious natural resource crimes globally, with the systematic theft, sale and illegal refining of up to 20% of Nigeria’s oil output. Illegal bunkering and artisanal refining have increased exponentially over the past decade. This paper draws on qualitative...
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The truth about modern slavery
The truth about modern slavery Apparently there are now more slaves than ever before in history. From men working in warehouses for barely any pay, to teenaged Vietnamese girls trafficked into small town nail bars, we're told that modern slavery is all around us, operating in plain sight. But is...
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Criminal business models and enablers
In this session, Donato Vozza from University of Roehampton London, will present his paper on an under-explored relationship: ‘Organized criminal groups and professional enablers: Breaking the partnership in crime in the area of taxation’, this presentation will introduce in the debate the notion...
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Crime and Music
The book (and the panel) explores the relationship between (organized) crime and music in its various forms and expressions. It includes a range of topics: from jazz and mob in Chicago, to narcocorridos in Mexico, to child trafficking in Medieval Italy, to the role of music in Serbian organized...
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Comparative perspectives on illicit crop economies and non-punitive rural drug policies
This panel explores the latest findings regarding the structure of illicit crop economies in the Andean and Mexico region, and the impact of novel, non-punitive and traditional rural drug policy interventions on production and development outcomes. LeCour discusses the Mexican case where opium...
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Tech against the illegal wildlife trade
Tech Against the Illegal Wildlife Trade: a session that will explore the latest developments in the field of technology and how it might be applied to combat the illegal wildlife trade, including online. The session will explore the GI-TOC’s newly created tool ‘The Cascade’ and its findings on...
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Statistical analysis of organized crime in France
In this session, Amandine Sourd will discuss the limitations surrounding the production of statistical data on victims and perpetrators of human trafficking through administrative and civil society sources, which underpins the need for diversifying data to find further insights into criminal...
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Italian mafias in Europe: From text to context
This is a complete panel session on the presence and activities of the Italian mafias in Europe. Francesco Calderoni, Professor of Criminology, Transcrime Catholic University of Milan will present the topic The Italian mafias abroad: evidence from Italian anti-mafia agencies reports 2000-2016,...
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Hiding dirty money in plain sight – A case study on following the money
In this session, DEA Resident Agent in Charge (RAC) David Tyree will present several investigative tools and techniques which were recently used as part of an investigation that resulted in a large seizure of suspected (laundered) drug proceeds. After this intervention, former MET police officer,...
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Cars, gold, and territories: Trends of organized crime in Brazil
In this session, Janaina Maldonado will present the latest findings on ongoing research on the transnational market of illicit vehicles to and from Brazil. Ana Carolina Bragança will discuss how environmental organized crime in the Amazon Region contaminates apparently legal supply chains, from...
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Breaking drug policy silos: Examples from France and Canada
In the last decade, there has been a shifting international policy environment towards more people-centred and development-oriented approaches to drug policy. Since the UNGASS 2016, increased research and policy venues have shown that drug related problems could only be tackled effectively if...
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Approaches to outlaw motorcycle gangs in the Netherlands and Australia
Teun van Ruitenburg - Raising Barriers to Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs in The Netherlands In this empirical study, the author shows that the Dutch approach to outlaw motorcycle gangs (OMCGs) has made a 180-degree shift from inclusion in the 1970s to exclusion in present times. Based on interviews with...
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Criminal gangs
In this session, Hernan Mondani and Amir Rostami from Stockholm University will present their paper on criminal nomads, which investigates the criminal collaboration patterns of two OMCGs in Sweden with a long history of deadly hostilities. After this intervention, Lin van Schalkwyk from Ghent...
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Criminalisation of victims of human trafficking – An overview of domestic and international legal frameworks post UK Modern Slavery Act 2015
This panel will be a discussion between criminal solicitor Philippa Southwell and former Met head on modern slavery Phil Brewer (now at Stop the Traffik) on the implications of the current British and International legislation on modern slavery and human trafficking. A talk by Lucia Bird, Phil...
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Critical review of Mexico’s security policy
Mexico has a complex history related to state institutions, organized crime and their relationship to both drug trafficking and other illegal activities. Over the past 15 years, the security policy has militarized public security interventions, providing an increasing power to the armed forces…
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Experts, analysts and scholars from around the world came together for the 24 Hour Conference on Global Organized Crime, to discuss the most fascinating research into organized crime.
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