Crime Watch: Hurricanes and Illegal Activities

Organised Crime Typologies: Structure, Activities and Conditions

Typologies are intended to assist researchers in understanding complex social phenomena. This paper reviews the current literature on organised crime typologies and argues that the majority of organised crime typologies are reflected to some extent in a typology developed by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in 2002. Organised crime typologies can be categorised into three gr...

National and International Policies to Control Illegal Forest Activities

Prevention of crime Retailers/Banks protect Activities

Online shopping and banking institutes frequently used over the Internet. With have grown dramatically. Customer trust Both buyers and sellers are vulnerable and sellers should consider protecting themselves should do to minimize their customer's deficiencies in online shopping and online may apply to minimize the risk of criminal

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas the Impact of Illegal Immigration and Enforcement on Border Crime Rates

In the 1990s, while there was a large decline in property-related crime along the U.S.Mexico border, violent crime rates began to converge to the national average. At the same time, legal and illegal immigration from Mexico surged and border enforcement rose to unprecedented levels. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between border county crime rates, immigration and enforcement sin...

Silence of the Innocents: Illegal Immigrants' Underreporting of Crime and their Victimization∗

We analyze the consequences of illegally residing in a country on the likelihood of reporting a crime to the police and, as a consequence, on the likelihood to become victims of a crime. We use an immigration amnesty to address two issues when dealing with the legal status of immigrants: it is both endogenous as well as mostly unobserved in surveys. Right after the 1986 US Immigration Reform an...