CovidCrimeWatch, Extortion in Central America, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, CAM-Obs

Contagion and extortion in Central America

... How is COVID-19 impacting the extortion economy of the Northern Triangle countries? A local network of experts assess how gangs in the region are adapting to the conditions imposed to contain the ...

Posted on 15 Apr 2020

Author(s): Guillermo Vazquez del Mercado Almada

CovidCrimeWatch, UN - Security and Rights

Peacekeeping amid a pandemic

... UNPOL's coordinator of Serious and Organized Crime, Bruno Isohi Shioso, explores how UN Police is drawing on its experience in containing Ebola to help fight COVID-19 in fragile contexts. As coun...

Posted on 15 Apr 2020

Author(s): Bruno Isohi Shioso

Private Sector, APA-Obs, CSA-Obs

A social anthropology of cybercrime: The digitization of India’s economic periphery

A social anthropology of cybercrime:

... The Republic of India is a useful case study for tracking the growth of cybercrime in the developing world. Most analyses of such crime focus on advanced, industrialized countries because that is wh...

Posted on 14 Apr 2020

Author(s): Prem Mahadevan

CovidCrimeWatch

#CovidCrimeWatch – n°3

... As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide surpasses 1.3 million, the risks posed by the pandemic – not just from the global health perspective, but also from an economic, development and ...

Posted on 08 Apr 2020

Author(s): Lyes Tagziria

CovidCrimeWatch

Cybercrime: Threats during the Covid-19 pandemic

Cybercrime

... As COVID-19 spreads quickly, so does the threat of cybercrime. Hackers are taking advantage of the current uncertainty to send out even more phishing messages than usual, with varying degrees of soph...

Posted on 08 Apr 2020

Author(s): Prem Mahadevan

ESA-Obs, SA-Obs

East and Southern Africa Risk Bulletin #6

Civil Society Observatory of Illicit Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa

...Risk Bulletin Download PDF Observatory of Illicit Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa Issue 6 March–April 2020 Tracking crime and covid-19 The coronavirus pandemic will have a profound effect ...

Posted on 06 Apr 2020

Drug Policy

Black Sea: A rising tide of illicit business?

... At the end of November 2019, the Azeri customs authority made its largest-ever seizure of Afghan-sourced heroin. At 930 kilograms, it was also the largest single seizure of heroin to be made in the B...

Posted on 01 Apr 2020

Author(s): Ben Crabtree

CovidCrimeWatch

#CovidCrimeWatch – n°2

... In the first of our weekly #CovidCrimeWatch bulletins, we explored the implications of social distancing on illicit economies around the world. The impact of remote working on cybercrime vulnerabilit...

Posted on 31 Mar 2020

Author(s): Lyes Tagziria

CovidCrimeWatch

COVID-19: Strengthen civil society in a time of unprecedented change and undermine criminal governance

... The COVID-19 virus presents extraordinary challenges to the global community and to global governance. Not least of these is the degree to which organized crime may use the openings created by the po...

Posted on 31 Mar 2020

Author(s): Mark Shaw, Tuesday Reitano

Crime Terror Nexus

Destruction or theft? Islamic State, Iraqi antiquities and organized crime

Destruction or theft?

... The Islamic State (IS) occupied territory in Iraq from mid-2014 to mid-2017 and, at its height, controlled almost a third of Iraq’s land mass and had dominance over 4 500 historical sites. In 2015,...

Posted on 30 Mar 2020

CovidCrimeWatch

The impact: Coronavirus and Organized Crime

... The Coronavirus is having a profound effect on the established structures of our globe. International travel has been suspended, borders have been closed, entire countries are in lockdown to preve...

Posted on 27 Mar 2020

Author(s): Jack Meegan-Vickers