“UNDERSTANDING AND TACKLING THE ROOTS OF INSECURITY” AT THE ECPR GENERAL CONFERENCE

The ECPR Standing Group on Organised Crime had the pleasure of participating, once more, in the ECPR’s annual conference. This year’s event, at the University of Glasgow, was particularly marked by a high turn-out of participants,  excellent organization, and topical subjects, such as the on-going debate on Scottish secession from the United Kingdom. The Section “UNDERSTANDING AND TACKLING THE ROOTS OF INSECURITY” AT THE ECPR GENERAL CONFERENCE

CALL FOR PAPERS: SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE EUROPEAN REVIEW OF ORGANISED CRIME (EROC) – “SPACE ODDITY? EXPLORING ORGANISED CRIME VENTURES IN CYBER SPACE”

Special Issue editors: Dr. Helena Carrapico (Aston University, UK) and Dr. Anita Lavorgna (University of Wolverhampton, UK) Over the past two decades, the development of modern societies has become intimately interconnected with information technologies. Such trend is particularly visible among the increasing number of personal objects, household appliances and professional structures connected to information networks. CALL FOR PAPERS: SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE EUROPEAN REVIEW OF ORGANISED CRIME (EROC) – “SPACE ODDITY? EXPLORING ORGANISED CRIME VENTURES IN CYBER SPACE”

JMLC SPECIAL ISSUE – ORGANISED CRIME: ORIGINS AND PROJECTIONS

The special issue came out of a joint one day programme on “Organised crime yesterday, today, and tomorrow”, involving speakers from the SGOC and the Symposium on Economic Crime held annually at Jesus College, Cambridge. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/toc/jmlc/18/2

ECPR STANDING GROUP ON ORGANISED CRIME FIRST GENERAL CONFERENCE – OLD AND NEW FORMS OF ORGANISED AND SERIOUS CRIME BETWEEN THE LOCAL AND THE GLOBAL

11-12 December 2015 Department of Political Sciences Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II Naples, Italy Globalization and growing economic interdependence, that have for so long been regarded as pacifying and stabilizing factors of financial transactions and international relations, have strongly encouraged, the transformation of organised and serious crime, over the last 30 years, beyond ECPR STANDING GROUP ON ORGANISED CRIME FIRST GENERAL CONFERENCE – OLD AND NEW FORMS OF ORGANISED AND SERIOUS CRIME BETWEEN THE LOCAL AND THE GLOBAL