Trends in Organized Crime

Papers
(The TQCC of Trends in Organized Crime is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
A response to Eski’s and Sergi’s ‘mafia-cation’. Confronting an ‘imagined’ narrative with empirical evidence26
The modus operandi of transnational computer fraud: a crime script analysis in Vietnam24
When corruption creates its Mafia. The “middle-world” case in Rome21
Europe’s biggest wildlife crime: eight years of coordinated actions against eel trafficking19
The data that we do (not) have: studying drug trafficking and organised crime in Africa18
Cybercriminal networks in the UK and Beyond: Network structure, criminal cooperation and external interactions18
Organised Crime and the ecosystems of sexual exploitation in the United Kingdom: How supply and demand generate sexual exploitation and protection from prosecution17
Organized crime behavior of shell-company networks in procurement: prevention insights for policy and reform17
Same but different? A qualitative analysis of the influence of COVID-19 on law enforcement and organized crime in Germany16
Irregular migration in the time of counter-smuggling15
Rules, gender dynamics, and structure of sex market facilitators13
Remembering Carlo Morselli13
Correction: Identifying sex trafficking in adult services websites: an exploratory study with a British police force13
Criminal justice officials’ attitudes towards addressing computer crimes in Thailand: Difficulties and recommendations12
Shifting routines and the industrialisation of scams: the impact of Covid-19 on deception crimes in Hong Kong12
Recent Publications on Organized Crime: the year 202311
Unintended consequences of state action: how the kingpin strategy transformed the structure of violence in Mexico’s organized crime11
A comparison of Vietnamese and Chinese human smuggling networks transporting people to the UK; similarities and differences in methods used and the experience of migrants travelling to and living in t10
Organised crime movement across local communities: A network approach10
“Journey into hell […where] migrants froze to death”; a critical stylistic analysis of European newspapers’ first response to the 2019 Essex Lorry deaths9
The heterogeneity of human smugglers: a reflection on the use of concepts in studies on the smuggling of migrants9
Social network analysis of illicit organ trading networks: The Medicus case9
Victim-offender overlap: the identity transformations experienced by trafficked Chinese workers escaping from pig-butchering scam syndicate9
Snakehead: the extent to which Chinese organised crime groups are involved in human smuggling from China to the UK8
Beyond borders: exploring the impact of Italian migration control policies on Mediterranean smuggling dynamics and migrant journeys8
State challenge and social legitimacy: Brazilian militias as violent non-state actors and informal institutions7
Investigating the illicit market in veterinary medicines: An exploratory online study with pet owners in the United Kingdom7
Governing the underworld: how organized crime governs other criminals in Colombian cities7
Illegal dogfighting: sport or crime?7
Quasilegality and migrant smuggling in Northern Niger7
Unpacking the political-criminal nexus in state-cybercrimes: a macro-level typology6
A structured methodical process for populating a crime script of organized crime activity using OSINT6
The role of informal networks in promoting illegal wildlife trade: a qualitative analysis from Uganda5
Landlords and screens: using documentary film to expose organized predatory landlording5
#Sponseredathlete: the marketing of image and performance enhancing drugs on Facebook and Instagram5
Webs of exploitation and opportunism: Tiger trafficking and crime convergence between Malaysian and Vietnam5
Dealing with organised crime and the financing of terrorism: an introduction to the special issue5
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