Includes a literature review and is therefore gold!

Nice piece on the security industry and their agenda for the modern city…or is it about the Olympics? Or just London? Are they all Judge Dredd reading geeks?

Italy has a serious problem with prison overcrowding. Data on suicides and other self-harming behaviours occurring in Italian prisons are worrying. Foreign inmates are a big percentage of prison population, even if often for trivial offences or awaiting trial. This inquiry shows the (terrific) sitaution in the prison of Canton Monbello (Lombardy).

Italy’s Anti-Mafia Directorate has seized assets worth 20 million euros linked to Giovanni Puma, a Sicilan man connected with the Mafia. Investigations have shown the involvement of tens of societies operating both in Italy (the article focuses on a society in Padua) and abroad.

Ah. Turns out that the figures are for the last three years. Detectives claim that local organised crime groups have pushed aside far eastern groups and local amateurs to take profits to fund their own activities.

Actually it wasnt just Liverpool that the UN was talking about. Some years ago there was an article in the Sunday Times that identified 40 “no-go” areas in the UK…Definitionally speaking, it meant places where the police only go when it’s raining hard! Still, this can be part of my continuing focus on my home … UN SAYS LIVERPOOL HAS DRUG-RELATED ‘NO-GO AREAS’ LIKE THOSE IN BRAZILIAN FAVELAS

Interpol claims to have coordinated the arrests in Spain and Latin America.

Alleged details of British citizens connected to al Shaabab being sought in Kenya. Original story named woman as Natalie Faye Webb, but this appears to have been a case of identity theft. Investigators now say she is the widow of one of the July 7th bombers. Lots of details in this piece.

Review of the Summer School and several excellent articles.

The FINANCIAL — The computerization of Georgian society is resulting in an inevitable increase of cyber crime in the country. Specialists predict that there will be a growth of organized crime involved in cybercrime in the near future. Cyber criminals can mislead consumers and carry out attacks via social networks. The most widespread methods are … GEORGIA: WAYS TO AVOID CYBER ATTACKS