ESA-Obs, SA-Obs

Cape Gangs in Lockdown:Saints or sinners in the shadow of COVID-19?

... Did the coronavirus inspire an unprecedented gangland truce in South Africa? Have hardened gangsters really downed their guns and joined forces to deliver food parcels and help to the communities ...

Posted on 22 Apr 2020

Author(s): Rukshana Parker, Michael McLaggan, Kim Thomas

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

People and forests at risk: Organized crime, trafficking in persons and deforestation in Chihuahua, Mexico

People and forests at risk:

... The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC), with generous funding from the United States (US) Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (J/...

Posted on 21 Apr 2020

Author(s): Livia Wagner, Diana Siller, Rosalva Landa

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Captured by the cartels

... In March, the US Department of Justice indicted Nicolás Maduro and other Venezuelan government officials for their alleged involvement in drug trafficking. Would Maduro’s removal from office have ...

Posted on 17 Apr 2020

Author(s): Matt Herbert

Global Initiative

#CovidCrimeWatch – n°4

... Last week’s #CovidCrimeWatch centred on the nexus between the COVID-19 pandemic and the environment, with a focus on changes in environmental criminal markets. Among the many commodities around the...

Posted on 15 Apr 2020

Author(s): Lyes Tagziria

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

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

Global Initiative

#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