Politicised crime: causes for the discursive politicisation of organised crime in Latin America

Violence and Crime in Latin America

In analyzing the situation, it is clear that most crime and violence is local in scope, affecting primarily the direct victim and local community. However, there is also a global dimension to the causes and, potentially, the solutions. For example, in the case of Latin America, the demand for illegal drugs in the USA and Europe has a clear impact on drug supply and organized crime in a number o...

Counterfeit Medicines and Organised Crime

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Causes of Crime

"Failing an all-round inquiry into delinquents, there are strong grounds for examining samples of specially handicapped delinquents of all ages to see how far we arc doing all we might as a society, to understand and help them, guide them, and in extreme cases, restrain them, remembering always that the personality of each one of them is of the same infinite importance as our own." And again : ...

The Root Causes of Crime

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...