IS THE ANTI-MAFIA CERTIFICATE REALLY USEFUL?

A provocative suggestion made by Piero Grasso – the national anti-mafia prosecutor – is to change the certificate of non-involvement in organised crime into a sort of “white-list” of good-behaving enterprises. The presence of the anti-mafia certificate currently influences the issuance of licences by the Public Administration and the very possibility of entering into contracts with the IS THE ANTI-MAFIA CERTIFICATE REALLY USEFUL?

CALL FOR PAPERS

Invitation to contribute to a special issue on ?Women and Transnational Crime? (Journal: Trends in Organized Crime) Special Issue Editors: Dr. Jana Arsovska, John Jay College of Criminal Justice Until recent years, the criminality of women had a long history of neglect. Criminology has treated women?s role in crime with a large measure of indifference. CALL FOR PAPERS

NEARLY 160 HELD AS MET POLICE CRACK DOWN ON GANGS

Yesterday, “organised crime”. Today “gangs”. Tomorrow, sho knows? figures given for how many gangs there are in London [250, 4,800 individuals] and how many are “high harm” [eh? wazzat?] [62] Hogan Howe keeps his political master and mistress happy

NETHERLANDS NATIONAL DRUG MONITOR 2010

English language text of the Annual Report. The National Drug Monitor (NDM), which has been drawn up since 1999 by the Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction [Trimbos-instituut] in collaboration with the WODC, is a descriptive report that provides an annual overview of substance use (drugs, alcohol and tobacco) and, since 2002, of recorded NETHERLANDS NATIONAL DRUG MONITOR 2010