Trends in Organized Crime

Papers
(The TQCC of Trends in Organized Crime is 4. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
A response to Eski’s and Sergi’s ‘mafia-cation’. Confronting an ‘imagined’ narrative with empirical evidence29
The data that we do (not) have: studying drug trafficking and organised crime in Africa26
The modus operandi of transnational computer fraud: a crime script analysis in Vietnam23
When corruption creates its Mafia. The “middle-world” case in Rome21
Europe’s biggest wildlife crime: eight years of coordinated actions against eel trafficking19
Irregular migration in the time of counter-smuggling18
Cybercriminal networks in the UK and Beyond: Network structure, criminal cooperation and external interactions18
Organized crime behavior of shell-company networks in procurement: prevention insights for policy and reform17
Organised Crime and the ecosystems of sexual exploitation in the United Kingdom: How supply and demand generate sexual exploitation and protection from prosecution16
Same but different? A qualitative analysis of the influence of COVID-19 on law enforcement and organized crime in Germany15
Remembering Carlo Morselli15
Rules, gender dynamics, and structure of sex market facilitators13
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 recommendations12
Unintended consequences of state action: how the kingpin strategy transformed the structure of violence in Mexico’s organized crime12
Shifting routines and the industrialisation of scams: the impact of Covid-19 on deception crimes in Hong Kong12
Recent Publications on Organized Crime: the year 202311
Organised crime movement across local communities: A network approach11
Social network analysis of illicit organ trading networks: The Medicus case10
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
“Journey into hell […where] migrants froze to death”; a critical stylistic analysis of European newspapers’ first response to the 2019 Essex Lorry deaths9
The heterogeneity of human smugglers: a reflection on the use of concepts in studies on the smuggling of migrants9
Victim-offender overlap: the identity transformations experienced by trafficked Chinese workers escaping from pig-butchering scam syndicate8
Connections between trades and trafficking in wildlife and drugs8
Beyond borders: exploring the impact of Italian migration control policies on Mediterranean smuggling dynamics and migrant journeys8
A tainted reputation it deserves? Crime in the trotting sector of Dutch horse racing7
Investigating the illicit market in veterinary medicines: An exploratory online study with pet owners in the United Kingdom7
Quasilegality and migrant smuggling in Northern Niger7
Snakehead: the extent to which Chinese organised crime groups are involved in human smuggling from China to the UK7
Governing the underworld: how organized crime governs other criminals in Colombian cities6
A structured methodical process for populating a crime script of organized crime activity using OSINT6
State challenge and social legitimacy: Brazilian militias as violent non-state actors and informal institutions6
Unpacking the political-criminal nexus in state-cybercrimes: a macro-level typology5
#Sponseredathlete: the marketing of image and performance enhancing drugs on Facebook and Instagram5
Illegal dogfighting: sport or crime?5
The role of informal networks in promoting illegal wildlife trade: a qualitative analysis from Uganda5
Dealing with organised crime and the financing of terrorism: an introduction to the special issue4
Identifying human trafficking indicators in the UK online sex market4
Forgotten children: a socio-technical systems analysis of the 2004 and 2015 forced child labour reports from Indian cottonseed farms4
Ethnic profiling of organised crime? A tendency of mafia-cation in the Netherlands4
European illegal puppy trade and organised crime4
Rule of law approaches to countering transnational organized crime in Africa: going beyond criminal justice4
Correction to: Organized crime‑related disappearances in Mexico: evidence from Durango, Tamaulipas, and Coahuila4
A living financial fossil, hawala: the evolution of informal fund transfer systems in Korea4
The nexus between corruption and money laundering: deconstructing the Toledo-Odebrecht network in Peru4
Corpses, diehards and clubs: Ultras and organized crime in Italy4
Webs of exploitation and opportunism: Tiger trafficking and crime convergence between Malaysian and Vietnam4
Corruption as state -corporate crime: the example of the health sector in Greece4
Criminal markets and networks in Cyberspace4
Crossing lines: Structural advantages of inter-racial criminal street gang violence4
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