Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This handbook explores organized crime, which it divides into two main concepts and types: the first is a set of stable organizations illegal per se or whose members systematically engage in crime, and the second is a set of serious criminal activities that are typically carried out for monetary gain. The book consists of four parts, the first of which introduces the reader to the concept of organized crime, related theories, history, and research methods. The second part looks at some of the world’s most infamous criminal organizations, including the Italian mafia, the Italian-American mafia, the Russian mafia, the Japanese Yakuza, Mexican drug cartels, the Triads and other forms of Chinese organized crime. The extent to which urban and youth gangs can be considered a form of organized crime is also analyzed, along with the opportunistic structures of organized crime, how state authorities become an actor or even a form of organized crime, and the role of women in organized crime groups and activities. The third part of the handbook focuses on the criminal activities most often associated with organized crime, from extortion and illegal gambling to money laundering, arms trafficking, human trafficking, cybercrime, organized fraud, the provision of illegal goods and services, and exploitation in the sex industry. In the fourth and final part of the handbook, the policies to control organized crime are discussed, focusing on countries such as the United States, Australia and New Zealand, as well as those in Asia and the European Union.

Organized crime. --- Criminology. --- Crime --- Social sciences --- Criminals --- Crime syndicates --- Organised crime --- Study and teaching --- E-books --- Criminology. Victimology --- Criminology --- Organized crime --- Crime organisé. --- Criminologie

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Information technology offers unprecedented opportunities to individuals, businesses and the public sector but also creates new vulnerabilities to crime. Impressive cybercrimes have been reported in the media in recent years, demonstrating the grave harm that even a single cyberattack can cause. Yet no systematic assessment of the impact of cybercrime on Belgian society and economy had been conducted until the start of the research project Belgian Cost of Cybercrime (BCC) in 2013, which was funded by the Belgian Service Science Policy Office (BELSPO) and coordinated by the KU Leuven Centre for IT & IP Law (CiTiP), in collaboration with the KU Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC). Building on that large multidisciplinary project, the book assesses the impact of cybercrime on businesses based in Belgium, drawing from a thorough conceptualization of both cybercrime and its impact. Using data collected through two surveys sent to more than 9,000 representatives of Belgian businesses, the authors report that most of the responding businesses are confronted with at least one type of cybercrime every year and some of them suffer serious harm from these incidents. Lastly, the book calls for the identification and implementation of effective preventive measures targeting the different types of cybercrime.

Criminal law. Criminal procedure --- Computer architecture. Operating systems --- Belgium --- belgie --- cybercriminaliteit --- informatica --- Belgique. --- Cybercriminalité. --- Informatique. --- Criminalité informatique --- Infractions économiques et financières --- Entreprises --- Aspect économique --- Computer crimes --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Data processing. --- E-books --- cybercriminalité --- informatique --- belgique --- Criminalité informatique --- Business enterprises --- Sociétés --- Law and legislation --- Droit --- Criminal provisions. --- Droit pénal --- Administration of criminal justice --- Justice, Administration of --- Crime --- Criminal law --- Criminals --- Computers and crime --- Cyber crimes --- Cybercrimes --- Electronic crimes (Computer crimes) --- Internet crimes --- Privacy, Right of --- Cybercriminalité

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book examines sports doping from production and distribution to use, detection, and punishment. Detailing the daily operations of the trade and its gray area as a semi-legal market, the authors cover important issues ranging from the diversion of regular drugs from legal market chains, the expanding scale of counterfeiting and the resulting health risks,  to the role of organized crime in sports doping, and the protection long provided by sports ruling bodies and federations to elite athletes and their suppliers.This innovative book examines the supply-side of the sports doping market, and is the first study of its kind to estimate the size and revenues of a national market for doping products; including the suppliers’ profits. The Sports Doping Market also discusses in depth  the challenges of the international antidoping regime and considers for the first time how anti-doping criminal provisions and their enforcement can contribute to improve the fight against doping within and outside the sports world. The book‘s extensive research: Estimates the nation-wide demand for performance-enhancing products Traces the route from legal substances to illegal uses. Identifies classes of suppliers and their methods of operation. Tracks typical distribution chains from suppliers to users. Examines the economics of the market: prices, profits, revenue. Assesses the state of anti-doping law enforcement efforts. Starting with an unprecedented case study in Italy, the intense scrutiny from one pivotal country yields a potential template for research and policy on a world scale. The Sports Doping Market makes solid contributions to the work of researchers in criminology and criminal justice, particularly with an interest in corruption, drug trafficking, and criminal networks; researchers in sports science and public health; and policymakers.  .

Athletes --- Doping in sports. --- Drug use. --- Drugs in sports --- International law. --- Criminology and Criminal Justice. --- Criminology and Criminal Justice, general. --- International Sports Law. --- Drugs --- Sports --- Sports medicine --- Drug use --- Corrupt practices --- Criminology. --- Law of nations --- Nations, Law of --- Public international law --- Law --- Crime --- Social sciences --- Criminals --- Study and teaching

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The central aim of "Assessing the Harms of Crime" is to provide a firm analytical foundation for making normative decisions about criminal and related policy, taking harm-and its reduction-as a conceptual starting point and supplying the means for systematic, empirical analysis in a harm assessment framework. By exploring harm's place in legal history and theory, criminology, and related fields and by considering the relevance of harm and its reduction for both criminal policy and the governance of security, the book demonstrates the centrality of harm, including its reduction, to crime, policy, and governance. It also highlights a substantial gap in methods available to the policy community to take on harm and the challenges of developing them. Working to fill that gap, the book presents the authors' "Harm Assessment Framework," consisting of tools and a process to identify, evaluate, and rank harms and to carefully distinguish harms that result directly from activities from those that are remote or driven at least partially by policy. The book also presents applications to complex crimes, primarily involving coca and cocaine, that show the framework's value with new, actionable insight to harm and policy. On this basis, the book argues that criminology would benefit from expanding its mission to include harm and target harm reduction and from positioning harm assessment as a core task. Lastly, it posits that systematic, empirical harm-based policy analysis can contribute positively to decisions about criminal policy and the governance of security and to advancing justice.

Criminology. --- Crime --- Social sciences --- Criminals --- Study and teaching --- Harm, Crime --- Criminal Policy

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book examines sports doping from production and distribution to use, detection, and punishment. Detailing the daily operations of the trade and its gray area as a semi-legal market, the authors cover important issues ranging from the diversion of regular drugs from legal market chains, the expanding scale of counterfeiting and the resulting health risks,  to the role of organized crime in sports doping, and the protection long provided by sports ruling bodies and federations to elite athletes and their suppliers.This innovative book examines the supply-side of the sports doping market, and is the first study of its kind to estimate the size and revenues of a national market for doping products; including the suppliers’ profits. The Sports Doping Market also discusses in depth  the challenges of the international antidoping regime and considers for the first time how anti-doping criminal provisions and their enforcement can contribute to improve the fight against doping within and outside the sports world. The book‘s extensive research: Estimates the nation-wide demand for performance-enhancing products Traces the route from legal substances to illegal uses. Identifies classes of suppliers and their methods of operation. Tracks typical distribution chains from suppliers to users. Examines the economics of the market: prices, profits, revenue. Assesses the state of anti-doping law enforcement efforts. Starting with an unprecedented case study in Italy, the intense scrutiny from one pivotal country yields a potential template for research and policy on a world scale. The Sports Doping Market makes solid contributions to the work of researchers in criminology and criminal justice, particularly with an interest in corruption, drug trafficking, and criminal networks; researchers in sports science and public health; and policymakers.  .

Social sciences (general) --- International law --- Criminology. Victimology --- Recreation. Games. Sports. Corp. expression --- sociale wetenschappen --- criminologie --- internationaal recht --- sportrecht