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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
A response to Eski’s and Sergi’s ‘mafia-cation’. Confronting an ‘imagined’ narrative with empirical evidence39
The data that we do (not) have: studying drug trafficking and organised crime in Africa30
Rethinking the victim–offender binary: victimhood, consent, and complicity in human trafficking in Bangladesh21
When corruption creates its Mafia. The “middle-world” case in Rome20
Europe’s biggest wildlife crime: eight years of coordinated actions against eel trafficking20
A crime script analysis of synthetic drug production19
Cybercriminal networks in the UK and Beyond: Network structure, criminal cooperation and external interactions19
Same but different? A qualitative analysis of the influence of COVID-19 on law enforcement and organized crime in Germany18
Real estate anti-money laundering in the Global South – are the laws and policies covering the actors they should cover?17
When sex and drug markets and gang involvement blend: how do sex market facilitators operate and socialize differently?17
Recent publications on organized crime: the year 202413
Organised Crime and the ecosystems of sexual exploitation in the United Kingdom: How supply and demand generate sexual exploitation and protection from prosecution12
Irregular migration in the time of counter-smuggling12
Rules, gender dynamics, and structure of sex market facilitators11
Organized crime behavior of shell-company networks in procurement: prevention insights for policy and reform11
Correction: Identifying sex trafficking in adult services websites: an exploratory study with a British police force10
Criminological definitions of organized crime on the digital test bench: towards a physical–digital framework9
Pursue: Has the National Crime Agency substantially reduced the level of serious and organised crime in the UK?9
Gendered dynamics of cross-border bride trafficking to China9
Shifting routines and the industrialisation of scams: the impact of Covid-19 on deception crimes in Hong Kong8
Criminal justice officials’ attitudes towards addressing computer crimes in Thailand: Difficulties and recommendations8
Social network analysis of illicit organ trading networks: The Medicus case7
Narcos, Inc.: drug cartels and the architecture of entrepreneurial ecosystems7
Recent Publications on Organized Crime: the year 20237
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 t7
Organised crime movement across local communities: A network approach7
Corruption in Nigeria: indifference and neglect7
Unintended consequences of state action: how the kingpin strategy transformed the structure of violence in Mexico’s organized crime7
Employment scams: a crime script and scoping review of prevailing methods, trends and future directions6
Beyond borders: exploring the impact of Italian migration control policies on Mediterranean smuggling dynamics and migrant journeys6
Raimo Pullat & Risto Pullat (2024) Vodka sea: the illicit alcohol trade in the Baltic sea region between the world wars. Tallinn: Eesti meremuuseum, pp.592, hardcover, €55, ISBN: 97899169750536
Victim-offender overlap: the identity transformations experienced by trafficked Chinese workers escaping from pig-butchering scam syndicate6
From the street to the internet? Exploring hybrid offending among financially motivated cybercriminals5
Investigating the illicit market in veterinary medicines: An exploratory online study with pet owners in the United Kingdom5
Governing the underworld: how organized crime governs other criminals in Colombian cities5
Quasilegality and migrant smuggling in Northern Niger5
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