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Ethnic disparities in serious drug offending a descriptive study of Danish registry data 严重毒品犯罪中的种族差异丹麦登记数据的描述性研究

IF 1.7 3区社会学

Trends in Organized Crime Pub Date : 2024-09-14 DOI: 10.1007/s12117-024-09547-z

Kim Moeller

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Queenpins: an exploratory study of female participation in high-level drug distribution networks 女皇：关于女性参与高级毒品分销网络的探索性研究

IF 1.7 3区社会学

Trends in Organized Crime Pub Date : 2024-08-22 DOI: 10.1007/s12117-024-09546-0

Lauren Jane Gillespie, Sarah Jones, Craig Kelly, Adam Lynes

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Unravelling the Zheyun Ye football scandal: A crime script analysis of the modus operandi to commit money laundering and tax fraud 揭开叶泽云足球丑闻：对洗钱和骗税作案手法的犯罪脚本分析

IF 1.7 3区社会学

Trends in Organized Crime Pub Date : 2024-08-20 DOI: 10.1007/s12117-024-09545-1

Rein Struyve, Lucie Vanwersch, Wim Hardyns

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Media’s role in (un)covering organised match-fixing in Brazil 媒体在（不）报道巴西有组织假球中的作用

IF 1.7 3区社会学

Trends in Organized Crime Pub Date : 2024-07-26 DOI: 10.1007/s12117-024-09543-3

Billy Graeff, Diego Monteiro Gutierrez, Felipe Tobar, Rafael Mano Diverio, Argyro Elisavet Manoli

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Europe’s biggest wildlife crime: eight years of coordinated actions against eel trafficking 欧洲最大的野生动物犯罪：八年来打击鳗鱼贩运的协调行动

IF 1.7 3区社会学

Trends in Organized Crime Pub Date : 2024-07-23 DOI: 10.1007/s12117-024-09540-6

Florian Martin Stein, Andreea Troneci, Jorge Jesus, José Antonio Alfaro Moreno

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Power and domination relationships in match fixing networks in Portuguese professional football 葡萄牙职业足球假球网络中的权力和支配关系

IF 1.7 3区社会学

Trends in Organized Crime Pub Date : 2024-07-19 DOI: 10.1007/s12117-024-09541-5

César de Cima Researcher

{"title":"Power and domination relationships in match fixing networks in Portuguese professional football","authors":"César de Cima Researcher","doi":"10.1007/s12117-024-09541-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-024-09541-5","url":null,"abstract":"This paper uses Pires’ (Sociologia Problemas E Práticas 100:41–63. 2022) analytical framework to analyse the power and domination relationships that govern the betting related match-fixing practices in Portuguese professional football. The analysis focuses on the “Jogo Duplo” (Double Game) prosecution order - the first and thus far the only Portuguese betting related match-fixing case tried in court - and on semi-structured interviews with two professional football players who were approached to fix matches by the so-called “Luso-Malaysian” group. Contrary to the realities of other countries which dictate the institutional discourse, the Portuguese case exposes a organised transnational criminal group established upon opportunities and characterised by amateurism and disloyalty, and in which the power dynamics are determined by the possession and structured allocation of a scarce material resource (money). In Portuguese professional football, threats seem to play a minor role in inducing football players to fix matches or in preventing reports. While the offer of bribes constituted the mandatory material resource to make the corrupt pacts viable, the use of moral and communicational resources was configured as a complementary mechanism to persuade the most undecided players. This research shows that in organised crime groups with a low level of sanctions, the players can refuse to participate in the game, adopt infidelity acts, or even decide to leave the game halfway through without experiencing resistance and conflict.","PeriodicalId":51733,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Organized Crime","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141743857","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Narco violence in Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico: media versus official data 墨西哥奇瓦瓦州华雷斯市的缉毒暴力：媒体与官方数据对比

IF 1.7 3区社会学

Trends in Organized Crime Pub Date : 2024-07-19 DOI: 10.1007/s12117-024-09539-z

Mike Tapia, Johanna Delgado-Acevedo, Osvaldo Rendon, Juan Carrillo

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The vulnerability of community sport organizations to criminal interference 社区体育组织容易受到犯罪分子的干扰

IF 1.7 3区社会学

Trends in Organized Crime Pub Date : 2024-07-12 DOI: 10.1007/s12117-024-09538-0

Maarten van Bottenburg, Inge Claringbould

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‘Familiness’ diversification and recognition: intergenerational changes in mobile ‘ndrangheta families in Australia 家庭 "多样化与认可：澳大利亚流动 "ndrangheta "家庭的代际变化

IF 1.7 3区社会学

Trends in Organized Crime Pub Date : 2024-06-27 DOI: 10.1007/s12117-024-09537-1

Anna Sergi

{"title":"‘Familiness’ diversification and recognition: intergenerational changes in mobile ‘ndrangheta families in Australia","authors":"Anna Sergi","doi":"10.1007/s12117-024-09537-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-024-09537-1","url":null,"abstract":"Mafia-type families, envisioned as intergenerational (criminal) dynasties or family-based criminal groups, are shaped by recognition in the ‘underworld’ and affected by changes in their familiness. In Australia, mafia-type families or dynasties connected to the Calabrian ‘ndrangheta have been successful at exploiting licit and illicit opportunities across generations and places also thanks to their recognition as well as reputation. In this article we explore how mafia-type families or dynasties experience familiness diversification, including intergenerational changes, transculturation, and external factors, and how this relates to their recognition in the underworld, by other criminal groups or by law enforcement. Based on document analysis and interviews, and building on a new analytical framework, we present four ideal-types mafia-type families in Australia: gatekeepers, holdovers, newcomers, and vanishers. This is the first study that considers how mafia organisations evolve in their most fundamental forms abroad, and some implications of such evolution go against mainstream understandings of mafia mobility studies.","PeriodicalId":51733,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Organized Crime","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2024-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141553269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A relational approach to organised crime 有组织犯罪的关系处理方法

IF 1.7 3区社会学

Trends in Organized Crime Pub Date : 2024-05-03 DOI: 10.1007/s12117-024-09534-4

Paolo Campana, Georgios A. Antonopoulos

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