Gilded aspirations: Illicit gold flows to India
India’s socio-economic realities have evolved significantly over the past four decades, particularly as far as attitudes to wealth accumulation are...
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A Rough Cut Trade: Africa’s Coloured-Gemstone Flows to Asia
The coloured gemstone sector is an international trade linking supply countries in Africa and traders in Thailand and elsewhere in Asia. Today, there...
A social anthropology of cybercrime: The digitization of India’s economic periphery
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...
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‘Consent and persuasion’ – community policing in Delhi
Worldwide, police forces have faced unprecedented challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this interview, Dr Om Mishra shares insights from the...
COVID-19 reveals costly blind spots in efforts to combat wildlife crime
The coronavirus outbreak shows that oversights in ground-level approaches to combating wildlife crime in southern Africa come at a great price. While...
#CovidCrimeWatch – n°10
By the end of this week, it will be five months since a cluster of cases of pneumonia were reported in Wuhan and a novel coronavirus was identified....
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‘Consent and persuasion’ – community policing in Delhi
Worldwide, police forces have faced unprecedented challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this interview, Dr Om Mishra shares insights from the...
A Tale of Two Countries: COVID-19 and organized crime in the Korean Peninsula.
There couldn’t be a starker contrast. Since its first confirmed case of an infection in late January, South Korea has responded swiftly and...
GIN Interview – Gulnara Shahinian
A counter-trafficking consultant and former special rapporteur to the UN on contemporary slavery, Gulnara Shahinian has spent her career trying to...
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Illicit Trade: Fuelling Terror Financing and Organised Crime
Recently, it has been observed that illicit trade became one of the favourite mechanism used by terrorist organisations to finance their operations....
ASEAN & ACTIP: Using a Regional Legal Framework to Fight a Global Crime
BACKGROUND TO ACTIP The ASEAN Convention Against Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (ACTIP) has been developed in recognition of...
Risk Averse? Company reporting on raw material and sector-specific risks under the Transparency in Supply Chains clause in the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Background Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, the Transparency in Supply Chains Reporting clause requires all commercial...