Trends in Organized Crime

Papers
(The median citation count of Trends in Organized Crime is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
A response to Eski’s and Sergi’s ‘mafia-cation’. Confronting an ‘imagined’ narrative with empirical evidence27
Cybercriminal networks in the UK and Beyond: Network structure, criminal cooperation and external interactions26
The data that we do (not) have: studying drug trafficking and organised crime in Africa22
When corruption creates its Mafia. The “middle-world” case in Rome19
Europe’s biggest wildlife crime: eight years of coordinated actions against eel trafficking19
Irregular migration in the time of counter-smuggling18
Organised Crime and the ecosystems of sexual exploitation in the United Kingdom: How supply and demand generate sexual exploitation and protection from prosecution17
Same but different? A qualitative analysis of the influence of COVID-19 on law enforcement and organized crime in Germany16
Remembering Carlo Morselli15
Organized crime behavior of shell-company networks in procurement: prevention insights for policy and reform15
Correction: Identifying sex trafficking in adult services websites: an exploratory study with a British police force13
Criminal justice officials’ attitudes towards addressing computer crimes in Thailand: Difficulties and recommendations13
Rules, gender dynamics, and structure of sex market facilitators13
Shifting routines and the industrialisation of scams: the impact of Covid-19 on deception crimes in Hong Kong11
Unintended consequences of state action: how the kingpin strategy transformed the structure of violence in Mexico’s organized crime11
Organised crime movement across local communities: A network approach10
A comparison of Vietnamese and Chinese human smuggling networks transporting people to the UK; similarities and differences in methods used and the experience of migrants travelling to and living in t10
Recent Publications on Organized Crime: the year 202310
Snakehead: the extent to which Chinese organised crime groups are involved in human smuggling from China to the UK9
Beyond borders: exploring the impact of Italian migration control policies on Mediterranean smuggling dynamics and migrant journeys9
Social network analysis of illicit organ trading networks: The Medicus case9
Quasilegality and migrant smuggling in Northern Niger9
The heterogeneity of human smugglers: a reflection on the use of concepts in studies on the smuggling of migrants9
Investigating the illicit market in veterinary medicines: An exploratory online study with pet owners in the United Kingdom9
Victim-offender overlap: the identity transformations experienced by trafficked Chinese workers escaping from pig-butchering scam syndicate9
State challenge and social legitimacy: Brazilian militias as violent non-state actors and informal institutions7
Governing the underworld: how organized crime governs other criminals in Colombian cities7
Illegal dogfighting: sport or crime?7
Raimo Pullat & Risto Pullat (2024) Vodka sea: the illicit alcohol trade in the Baltic sea region between the world wars. Tallinn: Eesti meremuuseum, pp.592, hardcover, €55, ISBN: 97899169750537
The role of informal networks in promoting illegal wildlife trade: a qualitative analysis from Uganda6
A structured methodical process for populating a crime script of organized crime activity using OSINT6
Landlords and screens: using documentary film to expose organized predatory landlording6
Unpacking the political-criminal nexus in state-cybercrimes: a macro-level typology6
Rule of law approaches to countering transnational organized crime in Africa: going beyond criminal justice5
Webs of exploitation and opportunism: Tiger trafficking and crime convergence between Malaysian and Vietnam5
Identifying human trafficking indicators in the UK online sex market5
#Sponseredathlete: the marketing of image and performance enhancing drugs on Facebook and Instagram5
Forgotten children: a socio-technical systems analysis of the 2004 and 2015 forced child labour reports from Indian cottonseed farms5
Dealing with organised crime and the financing of terrorism: an introduction to the special issue5
Correction to: Organized crime‑related disappearances in Mexico: evidence from Durango, Tamaulipas, and Coahuila4
Corpses, diehards and clubs: Ultras and organized crime in Italy4
It’s a man’s world but it would be nothing without a woman: The involvement of women in Belgian synthetic drugs trafficking4
Crossing lines: Structural advantages of inter-racial criminal street gang violence4
Corruption as state -corporate crime: the example of the health sector in Greece4
The nexus between corruption and money laundering: deconstructing the Toledo-Odebrecht network in Peru4
The Kurdish kaçakçı on the Iran-Turkey border: corruption and survival as EU sponsored counter-smuggling effects4
European illegal puppy trade and organised crime4
A living financial fossil, hawala: the evolution of informal fund transfer systems in Korea4
Green criminological perspectives on dog-fighting as organised masculinities -based animal harm4
Criminal markets and networks in Cyberspace4
The threat of ransomware in the food supply chain: a challenge for food defence3
A relational approach to organised crime3
Ethnic profiling of organised crime? A tendency of mafia-cation in the Netherlands3
The distribution of fake Australian vaccine digital certificates on an alt-tech platform3
Unravelling the Zheyun Ye football scandal: A crime script analysis of the modus operandi to commit money laundering and tax fraud3
Money laundering as a service: Investigating business-like behavior in money laundering networks in the Netherlands3
Organised crime and animals3
‘Familiness’ diversification and recognition: intergenerational changes in mobile ‘ndrangheta families in Australia3
Countering the illicit trading of cultural goods: Recent trends, emerging issues, and LEA responses in Turkey3
Financial risk management strategies of small to medium illicit drug enterprises: considering low-level money laundering2
The illegal trade in European eels: outsourcing, funding, and complex symbiotic-antithetical relationships2
Recent publications on organized crime: the year 20222
Correction: ‘Familiness’ diversification and recognition: intergenerational changes in mobile ‘ndrangheta families in Australia2
A Mother’s Choice: Undocumented motherhood, waiting and smuggling in the Tunisian–Libyan borderlands2
COVID-19 and organized crime: an introduction to the special issue2
Shared Sovereignties and Criminal Governances in the Context of the Pandemic in Colombia2
Cultivating Cannabis in a paraguayan nature reserve: Incentives and moral justification for breaking the law2
Marshalling the traffic: a preliminary exploration of the illegal firearms trade in Ukraine during martial law2
Professor Etannibi Alemika’s Interview on Organized Crime in West Africa2
An examination of hybrid organized criminal groups’ alliances with terrorist groups2
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