Sources: Organized Crime: From Trafficking to Terrorism

Possible Criminal Justice Solutions to Organized Crime: Drug Trafficking and Terrorism

Among the different manifestations that constitute the concept of organized crime, drug trafficking and terrorism arouse special interest because of their intense public repercussions. This is so with the phenomenon of drug trafficking for its use of terror indiscriminately as a tactical and strategic mechanism to stake out its supremacy and control, often managing to break the people’s confide...

Organized Crime and Terrorism. Reasons, Manifestations, Counteractions

Without doubt globalization is impacting on just about every aspect of life in the modern world. One may argue about the positive and negative issues involved in the process but what cannot be overlooked is that it is creating new opportunities to expand criminal activity, particularly in the form of organized crime and terrorism. As such, this phenomenon needs to be carefully studied both for ...

Drug Trafficking in Russia: a Form of Organized Crime?

She has published extensively on organized crime, drugs, and illegal markets. In the 1990s, she served as consultant to the Italian Ministries of the Interior and Justice and the UNODCCP. The decade following the breakdown of the Soviet Union has registered a rapid growth of illegal drug use and trade in Russia. Illicit psychoactive substances were consumed even prior 1991, but the former USSR ...

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 ...