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Organised Crime and the ecosystems of sexual exploitation in the United Kingdom: How supply and demand generate sexual exploitation and protection from prosecution
AbstractThinking about organised crime as an ecosystem is not only novel but also offers much potential to add to the theoretical and policy-based...
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Your files have been encrypted: a crime script analysis of ransomware attacks
Ransomware attacks have increased in recent years and the impact on victims and society can be considerable. In order to develop effective measures...
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Educational Attainment, Crime, and Causality: a Population-wide Sibling-based Design
Criminologists have been interested in educational attainment for decades, a focus the field shares with virtually all other social and psychological...
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Understanding the impact of urban heat islands on crime: insights from temperature, population density, and green canopy cover
Emergent literature suggests that micro- and macro-climates influence criminal behaviour; a complex phenomenon that is still incipient in theory...
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COVID-19, Violent Crime, and Domestic Violence: An Exploratory Analysis
As the world continues to struggle with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been much speculation on the impact of the virus on crime...
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The organization of the human organ trade: a comparative crime script analysis
This study fills critical knowledge gaps into the organization of organ trade utilizing crime script analysis. Adopting a situational crime...
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Gangland and Task Force Gain: An Alternative Account of Middle Eastern Crime in Sydney, Australia
According to prominent public commentators in Sydney, Australia, the city’s many diverse Middle Eastern communities possess extraordinary criminal...
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The Effect of COVID-19 Restrictions on Routine Activities and Online Crime
ObjectivesRoutine activity theory suggests that levels of crime are affected by peoples’ activity patterns. Here, we examine if, through their impact...
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COVID, Crime & Criminal Justice: Affirming the Call for System Reform Research
Early into the COVID-19 pandemic, Miller & Blumstein (2020) outlined a theoretical research program (TRP) oriented around themes of contagion control...
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Who researches organised crime? A review of organised crime authorship trends (2004–2019)
This article presents a review of organised crime authorship for all articles published in Trends in Organized Crime and Global Crime between 2004...
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Responses to Crime
This chapter will examine the nature of crime that existed in the latter decades of the nineteenth century and will evaluate debates related to the...
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Understanding White-Collar Crime
This chapter presents and compares survey research in India, Norway, and the United States regarding the extent of understanding the phenomenon of...
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A ‘Lens of Labor’: Re-Conceptualizing Young People’s Involvement in Organized Crime
Millions of the world’s children engage in labor, often exploitative and essential to their survival. Child labor is closely related to crime; global...
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Creating the demand for better crime policy: qualitative frame analysis as a vehicle for social transformation
When the dominant crime narrative embraced by members of the public runs contrary to evidence or exaggerates the incidence or mischaracterises the...
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Dramaturgical self-efficacy and opportunity structures for white-collar crime
Perceived self-efficacy is often held to be the most focal mechanism of human agency. It has shown strong potential to explain action in multiple...
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Following the (DNM) Bible? A crime script analysis of darknet drug vending
Darknet drug vending appears to be a multifaceted crime. Vendors use encrypted technologies to anonymously access cryptomarkets, engage buyers with...
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The rural enterprise crime complex: ‘undefendable rural space’ and the threat from the fortress farm
In respsonse to the concept of the ‘fortress farm’ and its appropriation of traditional defensible space theory, this article introduces the...
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Exploring Organized Crime Beyond Institutional Sources
In this chapter, we discuss the definition of organized crime and the methodological challenges that this area of inquiry arises. Based on our...
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Introduction: Crime in the Post-pandemic Digital Age
This chapter provides an introduction to the edited volume and reviews the nature and extent of illegality arising during pandemics, the relationship...
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Trauma-Informed Responses to Victims of Crime
Little has been written about trauma-informed criminal justice agency responses to victims of crime. This chapter explains why taking a...