British-Irish Section of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control Capital, Culture, Power: Criminalisation and Resistance 2-4 July, 2008, Liverpool Call for Papers The year 2008 marks Liverpool’s celebration of its status as European Capital of Culture. In preparation, Liverpool has been undergoing a physical and cultural regeneration. The centre of … CALL FOR PAPERS
SOCA today revealed details of an important people smuggling network based in Leicester and involving India, South Africa and even Canada and the United States. The network had several different modus operandi. The revelations come at the end of a series of trials in Leicester Crown Court.
Article from Washington Post on Department of Homeland Security’s information sharing system and its problems. Previous post on European Union refers. Usual problems of vulnerability to hacking and lack of security as public and private partners become involved. Its worth looking at the Bichard Report and Bichard’s follow-ups on implementation of his recommendations. Sharing intelligence … MORE ON DATA-SHARING
There may be legal issues involved in this Supreme Court decision that will affect some of the terrorist financing cases referred to obliquely in the previous entry. In particular cases where banks and other financial institutions are being sued for handling accounts that may or may not have been used by individuals or charities whose … CORPORATE FRAUD LAWSUITS RESTRICTED
This is a fascinating case which will bear close watching. A number of Islamic charities have been designated organisations that finance terrorism. It would be better to read the allegations in the Washington Post article than to repeat them here, because a quick read of the piece suggests some stretching of definitions as has occurred … EX-CONGRESSMAN INDICTED IN TERRORISM-FUNDING CASE
Interesting piece on the use of the internet to recruit and organise , alleging that individual actions too can be organised via the internet, avoiding face to face encounters. This piece fits in with the general argument that both organised crime and terrorism have moved away from solid hierarchical structures to networks and now to … CYBERTERRORIST 007
OK, it’s a Guardian article and suffers from all the problems pointed out by Ludo in his comment on the entry on the Prum treaty. The small print shows that this isn’t specific to the UK-US relationship. But it does seem to be another attempt to evade judicial supervision of data exchange by designating “cyberspace” … FBI WANTS INSTANT ACCESS TO BRITISH IDENTITY DATA
Sounds like a difficult read. Review is by the author of a book on the Sicilian Mafia. He does recommend it, but after much critical comment. Perhaps an SGOC reader could provide a review too?
Moscow Times article explaining that the possibility of receiving a bribe makes it more likely that the traffic police will enforce the law. You have to read it for yourself!
Fiona David’s new paper in the Australian Institute of Criminology’s Trends and Issues series on “Law enforcement responses to trafficking in persons: challenges and emerging good practice”. Bit of an executive summary, but there’s an agenda for PhD students to think about and a useful bibliography. Well worth a read…It will leave you hungry for … NEW AIC PAPER ON LAW ENFORCEMENT RESPONSES TO TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
