13 February 2012 – Transnational organized crime in West Africa, including illicit drug trafficking and the proliferation of illegal arms, as well as maritime piracy, dominated discussions today between a senior United Nations envoy and the head of the international police organization, Interpol.
15 tonnes seized in Jalisco, near Guadalajara. Sinaloa cartel making it and smuggling it into the US.
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
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
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
More on organised crime in Liverpool. The third page gives us a summary of the story so far
the story of a story. Mafia-busting in China..and political protection for mafias. Article hung up on the fact there may be a film
Camorra has imposed a sort of curfew in the neapolitan suburb of Scampia. Camorra wants to avoid new murders related to drug trafficking because those would attract the attention of media and politicians. However, local population is trying to react with a spontaneous movement (“OccupyScampia”) originated through social networks.
From the blog of Diego Valle
background to the recent discovery of an unpleasant neo-Nazi “terrorist” group in Germany. Partly reviews a film, partly discusses realities in former East Germany. Maybe Merkel has stuff nearer home to sort out, as well as Greece?
