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 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
Fishy business: regulatory and enforcement challenges of transnational organised IUU fishing crimes6
Your files have been encrypted: a crime script analysis of ransomware attacks6
Organised crime and animals5
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
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
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