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Season 2! Underworlds with Mark Shaw - Underworlds with Mark Shaw
Underworlds with Mark Shaw is returning for another season.Mark sits down with authors to discuss their investigations into the murky world of organized crime.In season two, we hear about a range of…
S5E9 Non-State Armed Groups and Illicit Economies in West Africa
This session will explore how armed groups in West and Central Africa draw revenue, resources, and legitimacy through their engagement with (il)licit economies. As greater focus in research to date…
S5E8 Organized Corruption in Asia and the Pacific
In this discussion, the panellists discuss organized corruption in Asia and the Pacific.Louise Taylor, Director - Observatory of Illicit Economies in Asia and the Pacific, Global Initiative against…
S5E7 Book presentation: Organized Crime During the Prohibition Era
This book aims to highlight the causes why the Prohibition Era led to an evolution of the New York mob from a rural, ethnic and small-scale to an urban, American and wide-scale crime. The temperance…
S5E6 New Directions in Cryptocurrency and Financial Crimes
The evolution of cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies continues to transform organised crime, cybercrime, and financial crime. This panel brings together researchers exploring emerging trends…
S5E5 The Battle against Fisheries Related Crimes in Indonesia
Indonesia, straddling Southeast Asia and Oceania along the equator, is the world’s largest archipelagic state with roughly 17,500 islands. Its status as an archipelago was formalized by the 1957…
S5E4 The Role of Technology in Combating Organized Crime
The role of technology in combating organized crime emerges as a central theme in our webinar discussion, featuring six esteemed speakers who contribute diverse perspectives on this critical issue.…
S5E3 Gangs: Insights from India, Colombia and Jamaica
The panel entitled "Gangs: Insights from India, Colombia, and Jamaica" presents a comprehensive exploration of gang dynamics across these three diverse contexts. The discourse initiates with Sangeeta…
S5E2 Peace Negotiations with Organized Crime: the Case of Medellín, Colombia
This panel will discuss the results of a research lead by Fundación Ideas para la Paz that highlights several challenges in the so called “Urban Peace Negotiations” with organized crime in Medellín,…
S5E1 Book presentation: Ticket Touting and the Black Market
Alessandro Moretti’s ‘The Rise and Rise of Illegal Ticket Touting’ is a criminological ethnography of the black market in buying and selling tickets to live events and is the first criminological…
S4E10 Fentanyl and Third Gen Gangs Latin America
This panel will assess illicit networks and fentanyl in Brazil, Mexico, and other Latin American countries using the 3rd GEN Gang literature and criminal insurgency as lenses. Fentanyl and other…
S4E9 How to build an Anti-Mafia association outside Italy: methods, difficulties, successes
We will share our experiences in the great environment of the 24 Hours Conference on Global Organised Crime. Particularly how mafiaindanke e.V. was founded, the difficulties we encountered and how we…
S4E8 Ndrangheta in East Germany
Axel Hemmerling, Ludwig Kendzia, David Klaubert and Margherita Bettoni spent three years investigating when and how the Calabrian 'ndrangheta arrived in East Germany. They looked into newspaper…
S4E7 Open Data for Anti-Corruption: Case Studies from Around the World
One of the most efficient tools for promoting transparency, accountability, and good governance is open data technology. This panel will offer examples of how open data platforms can be used…
S4E6 Southeast Asia's Drug Trade: Developments and Challenges
During this session, panellists will discuss the latest developments, challenges, and outlooks on Southeast Asia's drug trade, alongside UNODC’s ongoing support to enhance cross-border collaboration…
S4E5 Crime and Conflict in Pakistan
This Roundtable Discussion will examine the interplay between politics and economics in the frontier peripheries and urban heartlands of Pakistan. SpeakersJunaid Qureshi, Director European Foundation…
S4E4 Drugs, Thugs and Terrorism: the experience of India
This Roundtable Discussion will examine the question of how organized crime and political militancy interact in the Indian context. It will look at the role of mafia syndicates in perpetrating…
S4E3 Environmental organized crime
This panel will discuss the main issues with illegal natural resources export and illegal tourism as well as the criminal activities, in relation to “China's mafia invasion” of the East Siberia…
S4E2 Understanding & Responding to ‘Cuckooing’
The practice of ‘cuckooing’, where vulnerable people have their homes taken over, has generated significant policy and practice attention across the UK over the last ten years. While not exclusively,…
S4E1 PAGAD vigilantism and South Africa state capacity to respond to Organized Crime
The Director of GITOC, Mark Shaw, will discuss his new book Breaking the Bombers: How the Hunt for PAGAD Created a Crack Police Unit. This talk touches on the features, implications, and risks…
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