Summary
"Organized crime research strives to add to the often elusive evidence about how organized crime operates and who is involved. Different approaches to defining organized crime, ethical data collection and access, as well as meaningful academic–practitioner engagements, are continuing challenges. This collection shows that many of these challenges are potentially surmountable, although a systematic research agenda is yet to emerge. The current piecemeal approach to researching organized crime across various academic, private sector and government agencies’ interests can lead to duplication and uncoordinated efforts. However, this disconnect also allows room for innovation and experimentation essential to better understanding of organized crime and, if channelled to greater investment in systematic data collection and linking, could serve to develop methods to counter its influence on Australia and its neighbours." --Page 7.
Contents
1. Part 1 : Undertaking organized crime research -- Chapter 1 : The state of organized crime research in Australia. -- Chapter 2 : A network perspective on fusion. -- Chapter 3 : Can we forestall terrorism and frustrate organized crime by means of metadata retention? -- Chapter 4 : The who, not the what - analyzing public knowledge on organized criminals. - 2. Part 2 : Understanding how organized crime groups operate -- Chapter 5 : Insiders versus outsiders - alternative paths to criminogenic knowledge. -- Chapter 6 : Responding to organized crime through intervention in recruitment pathways. -- Chapter 7 : Disengagement from involvement in organized crime - processes and risks. - 3. Part 3 : Chapter 8 : Organized crime and terrorism nexus - implications for Australia ; a research note. -- Chapter 9 : Nexus between unreported and unregulated fishing and other organized maritime crimes. -- Chapter 10 : Criminal innovation and illicit global markets - transnational crime in Asia. -- Chapter 11 : The international darknet drugs trade - a regional analysis of cryptomarkets. - 4. Part 4 : Chapter 12 : Developing and applying a Queensland Crime Harm Index - implications for policing serious and organized crime. -- Chapter 13 : Impact of ballistic evidence on police investigations into organized crime. -- Chapter 14 : Effectiveness of anti-money laundering obligations in combating organized crime with particular reference to the professions. -- Chapter 15 : Third party co-production of cybersecurity.