Private Sector

Costing crime on the balance sheet

...resents only discovered fraud. A robbery is highly visible and its direct costs easy to calculate. Successful fraud, however, is frequently never discovered. And the same is true for certain types of cybercrime and intellectual-property infringement – and even when they are revealed, it is sometimes almost impossible to estimate the actual cost. Until further studies are undertaken, it will not be...

Posted on 04 Jul 2018

Author(s): Karl Lallerstedt

Crime Terror Nexus

Watching the French watchmen

...past couple of years. This new reality has brought with it new counterterrorism strategies among French security circles, which have had to adapt to an Islamist-motivated threat that uses cyber technologies and networks to convey its messages and divide people through terror – what we label today as violent extremism or radicalization. Bauer’s book analyzes this paradigm change, ...

Posted on 12 Jun 2018

UN-TOC Watch

Hard drive needed to fix computer crime

...The UN must engender greater consensus and collaboration if it wishes to respond effectively to the challenge of cybercrime.  One of the earliest references to criminals taking advantage of the vulnerabilities inherent in networked computers can be traced back to the 1960s, when an expert from research organizati...

Posted on 11 Jun 2018

Development Dialogue

Responding to organised crime and illicit trade in old and new domains

Organized crime and illicit trade

... vis-a-vis four core development areas: health and wellbeing; violence and conflict; governance and the rule of law; livelihoods and the environment. The third chapter, by Camino Kavanagh, IT and cyber-capabilities as a force multiplier for transnational crime, provides an historical overview of the evolution of criminal use of IT capabilities as a force multiplier, highlighting a number of emblema...

Posted on 16 Apr 2018

Author(s): Virginia Comolli, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Karl Lallerstedt, Tuesday Reitano

Crime Terror Nexus, UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

Adopted 18 years ago, why has the UNTOC still not achieved its aim?

...organized crime remaining vague and too general to enable the convention to deal effectively with the many forms in which it presents itself – a prime example being the more recent manifestation of cybercrime. In hindsight, those debates over definition ironically foreshadowed how terror has overtaken organized crime as an international security threat. No one could have predicted how the urgency ...

Posted on 20 Mar 2018

Author(s): Peter Gastrow

Protecting Politics

Imagining the Future of Crime and Politics

...Organized crime networks dedicated to illicit trafficking of drugs, people and wildlife—as well as money laundering and cybercrime, among other activities—are engines of instability. From Latin America to West Africa, from West Asia to Eastern Europe, and from Central Africa to Southern Europe, these networks engage in...

Posted on 16 Feb 2018

Protecting Politics

Organised Crime Threat Assessment for Albania

...networks in the region and beyond. The study analyses organized crime activities such as trafficking in persons, illicit drugs and arms, smuggling of migrants, extortion, contract killings, organized cybercrime and money laundering. Our findings and the opinions of the interviewees suggest that the elements that have stimulated organized crime in the country are of a social, economic and political n...

Posted on 02 Feb 2018

Author(s): Fabian Zhilla