Exploring interrelationships between high-level drug trafficking and other serious and organised crime: an Australian study

IF 1.4 Q2 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Global Crime Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI:10.1080/17440572.2019.1615895

C. Hughes, J. Chalmers, David Bright

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Drug trafficking is frequently argued to be the leading driver of other serious and organised crime, but the interrelationships between such activities remain poorly understood. This paper uses open source law enforcement data to explore interrelationships in Australia. A database was compiled of all reported criminal incidents of high-level drug trafficking between 2011 and 2017 and any concurrent charges for other serious and organised crime (SOC), sourced from official reports and press releases of Australian federal law enforcement and criminal intelligence agencies. Over the seven-years period 24.4% drug trafficking cases involved concurrent SOC charges. Logistic regressions showed characteristics associated with any concurrent SOC charge included the type of drug trafficked, network size, network nationality and OMCG ties. But characteristics differed according to which SOC was cited in connection with the drug trafficking offence e.g. firearms offences versus corruption/fraud. We discuss the implications for research, policy and practice.

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探讨高级别贩毒与其他严重有组织犯罪之间的相互关系：澳大利亚的一项研究

摘要贩毒经常被认为是其他严重有组织犯罪的主要驱动因素，但人们对这些活动之间的相互关系知之甚少。本文使用开源执法数据来探讨澳大利亚的相互关系。根据澳大利亚联邦执法和刑事情报机构的官方报告和新闻稿，汇编了2011年至2017年间所有报告的高级别贩毒犯罪事件以及其他严重有组织犯罪（SOC）的任何同时指控的数据库。在七年的时间里，24.4%的贩毒案件同时涉及SOC指控。Logistic回归显示，与任何并发SOC收费相关的特征包括贩毒类型、网络规模、网络国籍和OMCG关系。但根据SOC被引用与贩毒犯罪有关的特征不同，例如枪支犯罪与腐败/欺诈。我们讨论了对研究、政策和实践的影响。

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Global Crime CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-

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3.90

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4.50%

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期刊介绍： Global Crime is a social science journal devoted to the study of crime broadly conceived. Its focus is deliberately broad and multi-disciplinary and its first aim is to make the best scholarship on crime available to specialists and non-specialists alike. It endorses no particular orthodoxy and draws on authors from a variety of disciplines, including history, sociology, criminology, economics, political science, anthropology and area studies. The editors welcome contributions on any topic relating to crime, including organized criminality, its history, activities, relations with the state, its penetration of the economy and its perception in popular culture.