Crime and Contagion: The impact of a pandemic on organized crime
The fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic is having profound impacts on society and the economy, and it will also influence and shape organized crime and...
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Strengthening Rule of Law approaches to address organized crime: Criminal Market Convergence
In many parts of the world, multiple criminal markets operate in the same space, undermining good governance and regional peace and security. To...
East and Southern Africa Risk Bulletin #5
Each story in this edition of the Risk Bulletin of Illicit Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa looks at a different illegal market: from trade...
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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...
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...
Cannabis classification still up in the air
The 63rd session of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND) took place in Vienna (2–6 March), albeit with some slimmed down delegations due to...
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After the storm: Organized crime across the Sahel-Sahara following upheaval in Libya and Mali
Organized crime in the Sahel has entered a new phase of consolidation and diversification. During the past decade, criminal activity expanded...
Organised Crime Index (Africa 2019)
The ENACT Organised Crime Index is an innovative tool designed to measure levels of organised crime in African countries and assess their resilience...
World Atlas of Illicit Flows
Organized crime takes the lion’s share of USD31.5 billion in illicit flows in and around conflict areas A new report warns that the...
Las Buscadoras – the searchers – #GIResilience Project
This is story was made as part of the #GIresilience
Resilience Dialogues: bringing forward the local perspectives in OC
On August 7, 2017, The Global Initiative hosted its first Resilience Dialogues in Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa, Mexico. These dialogues were...
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Organized Crime and Criminal Networks in Africa
Summary and Keywords Organised crime and criminal networks are an outcome of Africa’s weak systems of state reach and governance, and in turn they...
Interview with Ruth Dreifuss on the decriminalization of drugs.
How would you assess the current state of the debate around decriminalization of drugs? There have certainly been positive developments since the...
GIN Interview – Jean-Luc Peduzzi, Head of the Dakar Platform
As law enforcement attaché to the embassy of France in Dakar, Jean-Luc Peduzzi, who is tasked with implementing bilateral security co-operation with...
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Organized Crime and Criminal Networks in Africa
Summary and Keywords Organised crime and criminal networks are an outcome of Africa’s weak systems of state reach and governance, and in turn they...
Patrones territoriales y factores sociodemográficos asociados a los homicidios y el narcotráfico en Costa Rica (Informe Final)
Leonardo Sánchez Hernández Introducción En los últimos años el país ha experimentado un aumento en el número de homicidios dolosos, en el 2017...
The Resurgence of Violent Crime in Tijuana
A new Justice in Mexico policy brief by Jaime Arredondo Sánchez Lira, Zulia Orozco, Octavio Rodríguez Ferreira, and David A. Shirk, entitled The...