Policing organized crime

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 ...

Policing Crime

Between 1985 and 1991 the homicide rate in the United 'States increased by nearly 25 percent, from 7.9 to 9.8 per 100,000 residents. Almost all of this increase was accounted for by additional gun homicides committed against and by young males. Although the homicide rate has declined substantially during the 1990s, homicide in the United States is still dominated by young people and firearms an...

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Policing White-Collar Crime

White-collar crime is financial crime committed by upper-class members of society for personal or organizational gain. White-collar criminals are individuals who tend to be wealthy, highly educated and socially connected, and they are typically employed by, and within, legitimate organizations. Ever since Edwin Sutherland first introduced the concept of “white-collar” crime in 1939, researchers...

Combating organized crime: A study on undercover policing and the follow-the-money strategy

Empirical research on organized crime policies is scarce. As a consequence, debates and policies lack a firm empirical basis and are mainly based upon normative grounds and untested assumptions. The aim of this study is to contribute to the empirical evidence by giving insight into the practice and results of two counterstrategies to organized crime in the Netherlands: the criminal justice appr...