Trends in Organized Crime

Papers
(The median citation count of Trends in Organized Crime is 1. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Connections between trades and trafficking in wildlife and drugs24
Chinese organized crime and the illegal wildlife trade: diversification and outsourcing in the Golden Triangle23
Contested borders: organized crime, governance, and bordering practices in Colombia-Venezuela borderlands21
European illegal puppy trade and organised crime19
Towards digital organized crime and digital sociology of organized crime13
Making sense of professional enablers’ involvement in laundering organized crime proceeds and of their regulation13
A structured methodical process for populating a crime script of organized crime activity using OSINT13
The modus operandi of transnational computer fraud: a crime script analysis in Vietnam12
Coyotes, caravans, and the Central American migrant smuggling continuum11
Unraveling the crime scripts of phishing networks: an analysis of 45 court cases in the Netherlands11
COVID-19 and Organized Crime: Strategies employed by criminal groups to increase their profits and power in the first months of the pandemic11
Shaping space. A conceptual framework on the connections between organised crime groups and territories10
Understanding the challenges to investigating and prosecuting organ trafficking: a comparative analysis of two cases9
The poverty business: landlords, illicit practices and reproduction of disadvantaged neighbourhoods in Czechia9
Covid-19 and child criminal exploitation in the UK: implications of the pandemic for county lines8
More Amazon than Mafia: analysing a DDoS stresser service as organised cybercrime8
Irregular migration in the time of counter-smuggling8
The perfect storm. An analysis of the processes that increase lethal violence in Mexico after 20067
Criminal markets and networks in Cyberspace7
Illegal dogfighting: sport or crime?7
Who researches organised crime? A review of organised crime authorship trends (2004–2019)7
#Sponseredathlete: the marketing of image and performance enhancing drugs on Facebook and Instagram7
The Kurdish kaçakçı on the Iran-Turkey border: corruption and survival as EU sponsored counter-smuggling effects7
Cybercriminal networks in the UK and Beyond: Network structure, criminal cooperation and external interactions7
Your files have been encrypted: a crime script analysis of ransomware attacks6
Fishy business: regulatory and enforcement challenges of transnational organised IUU fishing crimes6
The heterogeneity of human smugglers: a reflection on the use of concepts in studies on the smuggling of migrants5
Identifying human trafficking indicators in the UK online sex market5
Money laundering as a service: Investigating business-like behavior in money laundering networks in the Netherlands5
The illegal trade in European eels: outsourcing, funding, and complex symbiotic-antithetical relationships5
Mexican organized crime and the illegal trade in totoaba maw5
Cocaine trafficking from non-traditional ports: examining the cases of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay5
Phantom state in Haiti: criminal sovereignty and the mercenary remedy5
Organised crime and animals5
A Mother’s Choice: Undocumented motherhood, waiting and smuggling in the Tunisian–Libyan borderlands4
The role of informal networks in promoting illegal wildlife trade: a qualitative analysis from Uganda4
Financial risk management strategies of small to medium illicit drug enterprises: considering low-level money laundering4
The distribution of fake Australian vaccine digital certificates on an alt-tech platform4
Identifying sex trafficking in Adult Services Websites: an exploratory study with a British police force4
Walls of silence and organized crime: a theoretical and empirical exploration into the shielding of criminal activities from authorities4
State-organized crime and the killing of wolves in Norway4
“Journey into hell […where] migrants froze to death”; a critical stylistic analysis of European newspapers’ first response to the 2019 Essex Lorry deaths3
Forgotten children: a socio-technical systems analysis of the 2004 and 2015 forced child labour reports from Indian cottonseed farms3
The dynamics of criminal cooperation between the police and gangs in Honduras3
Organized crime behavior of shell-company networks in procurement: prevention insights for policy and reform3
Corruption as state -corporate crime: the example of the health sector in Greece3
From prison gangs to transnational mafia: the expansion of organized crime in Brazil3
Contract killings: a crime script analysis3
Co-offending networks among members of outlaw motorcycle gangs across types of crime3
Investigating the illicit market in veterinary medicines: An exploratory online study with pet owners in the United Kingdom3
From legal definitions to ethnic identities: Representations of organized crime in Czech policy documents3
Cross-jurisdictional review of Australian legislation governing outlaw motorcycle gangs3
On the motivations and challenges of affiliates involved in cybercrime3
Cultivating Cannabis in a paraguayan nature reserve: Incentives and moral justification for breaking the law3
An exploration of organized crime in Italian ports from an institutional perspective. Presence and activities3
From payday to payoff: Exploring the money laundering strategies of cybercriminals3
Green criminological perspectives on dog-fighting as organised masculinities -based animal harm3
The nexus between corruption and money laundering: deconstructing the Toledo-Odebrecht network in Peru3
The organization of Danish gangs: a transaction cost approach3
The “Nigerian mafia” feedback loop: European police, global media and Nigerian civil society2
Snakehead: the extent to which Chinese organised crime groups are involved in human smuggling from China to the UK2
Under a setting sun: the spatial displacement of the yakuza and their longing for visibility2
Unpacking the political-criminal nexus in state-cybercrimes: a macro-level typology2
Safety, intimacy and defiance in the context of border control and counter-smuggling: Algeria’s ghettos, maquis and ngandas2
Unintended consequences of state action: how the kingpin strategy transformed the structure of violence in Mexico’s organized crime2
Ethnic profiling of organised crime? A tendency of mafia-cation in the Netherlands2
Quasilegality and migrant smuggling in Northern Niger2
Exploring the relationship between super bowls and potential online sex trafficking1
The threat of ransomware in the food supply chain: a challenge for food defence1
The nexus of women and ‘Clan Crime’: unravelling the dynamics and constraints1
The processes, logics and economies of violence in organised crime1
Remembering Carlo Morselli1
Organized crime involvement in antiquities looting in Italy1
Do high value target strikes reduce cartel-related violence? An empirical assessment of crime trends in Tijuana, Mexico1
Organized crime-related disappearances in Mexico: evidence from Durango, Tamaulipas, and Coahuila1
New challenges in financial supervision: environmental crime terrorism financing1
Traces of (dis)organised crime in sports gambling: a case study of the 2011 K-League match-fixing scandal1
‘Through a glass darkly’: organised crime and money laundering policy reflections - an introduction to the special issue1
The data that we do (not) have: studying drug trafficking and organised crime in Africa1
Empty pack survey to estimate Illicit Tobacco Trade in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina1
The signing of the peace agreement in Colombia. Old wine in new skins: Implications for national security and organized crime1
‘Familiness’ diversification and recognition: intergenerational changes in mobile ‘ndrangheta families in Australia1
To become ‘ndrangheta in Calabria: organisational narrative criminology and the constitution of mafia organisations1
Rules, gender dynamics, and structure of sex market facilitators1
Organised Crime and the ecosystems of sexual exploitation in the United Kingdom: How supply and demand generate sexual exploitation and protection from prosecution1
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