Editorial note: September in Cambridge and Bordeaux Meeting CrimInterview with MEP Salvatore Iacolino Non conviction-based Confiscation within the new EU Directive “Know your enemy”: Reflections on challenges faced by UK law enforcement agencies in policing international organised crime Endless opportunities: money laundering through high value portable commodities Miscellaneous

Editorial Note October and November 2010 News The global network of Nigerian criminal groups: organised or disorganised crime? Standing Group activities and projects Women in “Organized Crime” in Greece: a methodological note and some preliminary data Transnational West African organized crime Computer algorithms: software in the dock Recent books and reports on organised crime Stepping … SGOC NEWSLETTER NOV 2010, VOLUME 9, NUMBER 2

Editorial note Drug trafficking: A case study of Montenegro Global governance & OC reports Against the concept of “Transnational Organised Crime”: a new taxonomy for assessing mafia operations across territories New methodology for the research on organized crime: the Spanish experience Witness protection as a response to gang activity: a Canadian perspective 3rd 2011 ECPR SGOC … SGOC NEWSLETTER DEC 2011, VOLUME 9, NUMBER 3

Editorial note May 2009 News Foreign organised crime Conferences Socio- historical analysis of politico- criminal configurations Forging Ahead… Exposing critical needs SGOC News Blog Litterature Review Choosing between civil society and organised crime Books and Reports Global Crime ECPR SGOC Summer School on Organised Crime

The first ISSOC: an overview The construction of evidence in organised crime cases The historical development of security concerns in the Caribbean Basin Region: The Emergence of Organized Crime as a regional security threat Czeck Organised crime and Social Opportunities The ISSOC in practice: some photograps Anouncement: The next Summer School on Organised crime in … SGOC NEWSLETTER NOV 2009, VOLUME 8, NUMBER 2

Editorial note Organised Crime in Macedonia News Books A Caribbean Jewel for Organised Criminals Speaking of Organised Crime at EU Level Conferences The European Convention Against Human Trafficking its Ratification Baby on Board

Editorial note The G8: An Under-evaluated Actor in the International Mobilisation against Transnational Organized Crime News Conferences Europeanization of the Judicial Power. Jobs and News Towards an administrative approach of organized crime? Conferences Organized crime at the door: the impact of EU policies on organized crime in the Balkans (WISC/SGOC Panel) ECPR SGOC Summer School … SGOC NEWSLETTER MAY 2008, VOLUME 7, NUMBER 2

Editorial note Albanian explosions & global arms contraband News Crime, business & politics SCOG blog news Not so fast: Trafficking, the securiy sector and organised crime Conferences Successful prosecutions of human trafficking Books & reports International workshop on ethnic Albanian criminal groups in Europe Conference report: The impact of EU policies on organised crime in the Balkans Global Crime … SGOC NEWSLETTER OCT 2008, VOLUME 7, NUMBER 3

Word of Welcome Seminar report The New European Common Approach to Assessing Organised Crime (NECA) Book review Social Network Analysis (SNA): Real world methodological challenges… Catching up with technology Pre-conference Young Researchers Workshop Call for Papers Pisa reminder

Word of Welcome Conference announcements Emerging cocaine routes in the Balkans Some UN statistics on cocaine trafficking and consumption Expansion of the “West-Africa route” in Algeria Books to review for Global Crime Information on the ECPR Pisa conference Cocaine trafficking in Southern Italy: The ’Ndrangheta and the SCU and the transnational threat of cocaine trafficking, supply … SGOC NEWSLETTER MAY 2007, VOLUME 6, NUMBER 2