Concerning the recent case of the unfortunate 39 victims
in an icebox cemetery truck in Essex and the 58 in
Dover suffocated to death in the year 2000, that is just a sign of
the multibillion human trafficking "business" it makes some
sense to see how academia worries on the issue of organized crime.
A search on Web of Science shows that the first publications on "organized crime" appeared 63 years ago, but it took 13 years for those to exceed more than 10 per year and only in the new millennium were those publications able to cross the barrier of 100 per year. Also Scopus search shows that there are around 5.000 Scopus indexed publications with the term “organized crime” in the title, abstract or key-words while if we search for the term “fashion and design” the Scopus algorithm returns around 24.000 publications. It almost seems that in academia vanitas rule over gravitas !
Be there as it may check some recent papers below and also the link for the European project Takedown that was finished two months ago:
Analysis of Organized Crime in England using
Intelligence Records
“We present aggregated intelligence data on all known
organized crime groups (ocgs) and ocgs members...encompassing records on
2,726 highly-prolific offenders and 280 groups, collated based on over a
million records from multiple law enforcement agencies.”
Constructing the mafia concept on the bench.
Recently published in the International Journal of
Law, Crime and Justice
Government Complicity in Organized Crime
“Government complicity in organized crime is more
likely where the rule of law is weak, criminal activities are large and
complex, and illicit money is concentrated in fewer hands and represents a
greater share of national income.”https://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PA00TSH2.pdf
The Evolution of the Most Lethal Criminal Organization
in Brazil
“Having demonstrated its capacity for mobilization and
upon realizing the impact caused by what would be considered the biggest riot
in Brazil’s history, PCC leaders were convinced of their ability to confront,
embarrass, and blackmail the state. The organization’s debut proved so
successful that the PCC began to call itself the “Party of Crime.” Soon after
this first collective action, and less than a decade after its establishment,
the PCC adopted an action plan that would define it as a “third-generation
gang” with a political agenda and transnational connections.” https://www.jstor.org/stable/26597310?seq=2#metadata_info_tab_contents
