Assassination Witness, ESA-Obs, SA-Obs

Gun licenses for sale: South Africa’s failing firearms control

Gun licenses for sale

...The assassination of a South African police detective investigating a guns-to-gangs syndicate has brought into sharp focus the links between corrupt elements of the police and the criminal underworld,...

Posted on 11 Dec 2020

Author(s): Jenni Irish-Qhobosheane

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

Extortion and the pandemic in Central America

...This article is the first output of the GI-TOC Observatory in Central America (CAM-Obs). The aim of the Observatory is to explore issues related to the impact of and fight against extortion in Guatema...

Posted on 09 Dec 2020

Author(s): Guillermo Vazquez del Mercado Almada, Luis Félix

CovidCrimeWatch

#CovidCrimeWatch – Autumn

...In this edition of the #CovidCrimeWatch newsletter, published on International Anti-Corruption Day, we feature a number of stories from across the world on the issue of irregularities in the public pr...

Posted on 09 Dec 2020

Author(s): Lyes Tagziria

UN-TOC Watch

Agreements and Disagreements on the Road to Kyoto

...This briefing explores the issues being negotiated before the 14th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. The GI-TOC has seen a draft of the congress declaration, and here we summarize ...

Posted on 09 Dec 2020

Author(s): Ian Tennant

IASOC

OC24: The Podcast

... The first ever 24 hour Conference on Global Organized Crime (#OC24) took place in 10-11 November 2020 and it was an unprecedented opportunity for interaction on the topics of criminal gr...

Posted on 08 Dec 2020

SEE-Obs

South Eastern Europe Risk Bulletin #3

Civil Society Observatory to counter organized crime in South Eastern Europe

...Risk Bulletin Download PDF sq Shqip Observatory of Illicit Economies in South Eastern Europe Issue 3 December–January 2020–2021 Summary highlights Profiting from the pandemic: COVID-19 and corrupt...

Posted on 08 Dec 2020

ESA-Obs

Trafficking Malagasy Tortoises

Trafficking Malagasy Tortoises

...While the trafficking of Madagascan tortoises may at first seem an obscure and inconsequential problem, this study shows that an extensive regional network of criminal and corrupt actors consistently ...

Posted on 03 Dec 2020

Author(s): Alastair Nelson, Jacqueline Cochrane