Organized Crime, Violence, and Politics

Organized Crime, Corruption and Punishment∗

JEL Classification: K42, L13, O17.

Organized Crime Goes Cyber

Policing organized crime

Until a few decades ago, the police were mainly a reactive bureaucratic organization that moved from one criminal event to the next, according to the degree to which the outside world required its services. Since then the police have abandoned the emphasis on law enforcement with regards to petty crime and public order. More recently the police have developed community policing as an important ...

Violence and gun crime.

The headlines about gun crime and violent crime in the United Kingdom are tragic and alarming—seven deaths of young people by October 2007 from gun crime and an apparent increase in violent crime generally. When combined with other news of gun related incidents, such as the shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes by a police officer in a London underground station, anxiety about the danger of guns ...

transnational organized crime, palermo convention’s effects

transnational organized crime is one of the most problematic matters for international community in 21st century. these crimes are committed by organized criminal groups consisting of three or more persons, a unique leadership and strict discipline with cruel sanctions in order to obtain, directly or indirectly, a financial or other material benefit. commission of the crimes nationally and inte...