Police cannot cope with the huge rise in cyber-crime, such as computer viruses, fraud and the online grooming of children, Scotland Yard has admitted. And the scale of the problem has become so large that not all allegations can be investigated. Chief constables are lobbying for funding to set up a national “e-crime” squad to … UK: POLICE STRUGGLING TO COPE WITH RISE OF CYBER-CRIME
The Korea Institute of Criminology on Monday painted a grim picture of organized crime here based on an in-depth survey of convicted Mafiosi. The institute sent questionnaires to 109 imprisoned gang members and selected 29 for further interview. The results show that while movies often portray crime syndicates as a lucrative workplace, the luxurious lifestyle has disappeared … KOREA: GANGSTERS HAVE A HARD TIME MAKING ENDS MEET
CNBC’s David Faber shares a special report (4 min video) on the Internet auction giant from CNBC’s new show, “Business Nation.”
Interpol has renewed its efforts on combating intellectual property crime claiming that counterfeiters are expanding the extent and scope of their activities.
MADRID (Reuters) – Organized crime is running out of control in Mexico, Mexican President Felipe Calderon told the Spanish newspaper El Pais in an interview published on Sunday. “Organized crime is getting out of control and is causing serious worries in some regions of the country, like Michoacan,” Calderon said. “Murder rates were exceeding those … MEXICO DRUG CRIME OUT OF CONTROL SAYS PRESIDENT
In recent decades the increasing volume and fluidity of banking and financial markets has depended on the “neutrality” attributed to the capital handled in the markets, as far as its origin and final destination are concerned. Nevertheless, in a context where the war against organized crime, money laundering and terrorism finance has become a worldwide … CALL FOR PAPERS: FINANCIAL OFF-SHORING AND UNDER-GROUNDING
ORGANISED crime is strengthening its grip on Queensland’s prostitution industry, thwarting attempts by police and the State Government to control the flourishing trade in sex. Legal brothel operators frustrated by ineffective policing of the laws governing the sale of sexual services claim illegal operators meet regularly for breakfast to discuss their industry, that crime figures … QUEENSLAND: BLACK TRADE IN SEX FLOURISHES
The Centre for Criminology (University of Oxford) is looking for a Research Assistant to provide research support to Professor Federico Varese. Further information can be found here.
The Tuebingen Institute of Criminology has updated its extensive link list. Its has become an impressive list of Websites/URLs on Criminology, Criminal Justice, Corrections etc.
GUANGZHOU: Police have established special taskforces to investigate what has become a spate of murder-dismemberment cases. In the latest cases, two dismembered bodies were found this weekend in Guangzhou and Foshan. The emergence of these cases follows the arrest this weekend of two suspects for the murder and dismemberment of a third victim in an … CHINA: TASKFORCES TO PROBE CHOPPING SPREE
