Assassination Witness, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics

Mexico election

...Mexico’s presidential election opens a new chapter in democracy and security against a backdrop of pervasive violence. Mexicans have voted to change the course of their history. The results of th...

Posted on 05 Jul 2018

Author(s): Siria Gastelum Felix

Private Sector

Costing crime on the balance sheet

...A new Swedish survey has estimated the cost of crime to the private sector as equivalent to 1.2% of the country’s GDP, but the real figure is likely to be much higher. The Confederation of Swedis...

Posted on 04 Jul 2018

Author(s): Karl Lallerstedt

Drug Policy, ENACT

The heroin coast: A political economy along the eastern African seaboard

The heroin coast:

... This report examines the characteristics of the heroin trade off the East African coast and highlights the criminal governance systems that facilitate drug trafficking along these routes. ...

Posted on 02 Jul 2018

Author(s): Simone Haysom, Peter Gastrow, Mark Shaw

Drug Policy, ENACT

Tackling heroin trafficking on the East African coast

... The volume of heroin shipped along a network of maritime routes in East and Southern Africa has increased considerably. New policy approaches are urgently needed. In recent years, the...

Posted on 02 Jul 2018

Author(s): Mark Shaw, Simone Haysom, Peter Gastrow

28 Jun

RESPECT

Using tech to combat human trafficking

...The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime proudly announces that we have been chosen as the Research Lead, along with the RESPECT founding organizations, to guide the Tech Against Tr...

Posted on 28 Jun 2018
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Hilary Matfess

Senior Fellow, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

...Hilary Matfess is a PhD student in Yale University's Department of Political Science. Hilary researches and writes on a broad range of subjects related to gender, conflict, and governance in sub-Sahar...

Posted on 28 Jun 2018

Drug Policy, NAS-Obs

Tramadol trafficking in Niger

...This, our second of two reports on narcotics trafficking in Niger, looks at the growth in the market for tramadol, a more recent entrant into the regional drugs economy. While the trafficking of dr...

Posted on 25 Jun 2018

Author(s): Peter Tinti

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Organized Crime and Central American Migration in Mexico

...Abstract The following report was researched and written in response to a request by the Mexican Federal Police for an evaluation of the interactions between organized crime and Central American migr...

Posted on 24 Jun 2018
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Martin Plaut

Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies

...Born in South Africa in May 1950, Martin Plaut is currently Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London. He received his first degree in Social Science from t...

Posted on 22 Jun 2018
02 Jul

Drug Policy

Drugs and maritime crime off the East African coast (Tanzania)

...East Africa plays an increasing role in the global illicit drug trade, particularly as a corridor for the trafficking of heroin and cocaine. This three-part seminar will explore different dimensions o...

Posted on 20 Jun 2018
03 Jul

Drug Policy

Drugs and maritime crime off the East African coast (Kenya)

...East Africa plays an increasing role in the global illicit drug trade, particularly as a corridor for the trafficking of heroin and cocaine. This three-part seminar will explore different dimensions o...

Posted on 20 Jun 2018
03 Jul

Crime & Conflict

Cracking the Connections: How sanctions can disrupt the crime-conflict nexus

...The financial flows derived from natural resource exploitation, as well as other forms of crime, are critical to ability of actors (both state and non-state) to sustain conflict, and the accompan...

Posted on 20 Jun 2018
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