- How much organized crime is there?
- Alternative ways to measure organized crime
- Measuring product markets and flows
- Risk assessment
- Key concepts of risk assessment
- Risk assessment of organized criminal groups
- Risk assessment of product markets
- Risk assessment in practice
- Summary
- References
Published in April 2018
Regional Perspectives: Pacific Islands Region - added in November 2019
Regional Perspective: Eastern and Southern Africa - added in April 2020
This module is a resource for lecturers
Core reading
This section provides a list of (partly open access) materials that the lecturer could ask the students to read before taking a class based on this Module.
Academic Literature
- Andreas, Peter (2010). The Politics of Measuring Illicit Flows and Policy Effectiveness. In P Andreas, K.M. Greenhill, eds. Sex, Drugs, and Body Counts: The Politics of Numbers in Global Crime and Conflict. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
- Barberet, Rosemary (2014). Measuring and Researching Transnational Crime. In P. Reichel and J. Albanese, eds. Handbook of Transnational Crime and Justice, 2d. ed. Sage.
- Castle, Allan (2008). Measuring the Impact of Law Enforcement on Organized Crime. Trends in Organized Crime, vol. 11, 135-156.
- Vander Beken, Tom (2004). Risky Business: A Risk-Based Methodology to Measure Organized Crime. Crime, Law & Social Change, vol. 41, 471-516.
Reports
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2010). Guidance on the Preparation and Use of Serious and Organized Crime Threat Assessments: The SOCTA Handbook. Vienna: UNODC.
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2016). Global Report on Trafficking in Persons.
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2017). World Drug Report. Vienna: UNODC.