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3 results foundAuthor: Shaw, Mark Title: Know Your Enemy: An Overview of Organized Crime Threat Assessments Summary: There is increasing awareness within police forces and international organizations that organized crime is a growing threat to security. However, due to a lack of data and insufficient knowledge about illicit activities, criminal justice experts are often left chasing shadows. To rectify this problem, more attention has been devoted to developing and using organized crime threat assessments in recent years, particularly for use in vulnerable states that are less resistant to infiltration by criminals. This paper briefly considers the history of organized crime threat assessments, the process in which they have been produced and used, and criticisms that have been leveled against them. Finally, it considers their applicability to fragile and postconflict countries and the kind of requirements that would need to be fulfilled for threat assessments to be an effective tool against organized crime in such contexts. Details: New York: International Peace Institute, 2011. 7p. Source: Internet Resource: Issue Brief: Accessed August 10, 2013 at: http://www.ipinst.org/media/pdf/publications/ipi_e_pub_know_your_enemy.pdf Year: 2011 Country: International URL: http://www.ipinst.org/media/pdf/publications/ipi_e_pub_know_your_enemy.pdf Shelf Number: 129608 Keywords: Organized Crime (International)Threat Assessments |
Author: Kemp, Walter Title: The Elephant in the Room: How Can Peace Operations Deal with Organized Crime? Summary: "The Elephant in the Room" shows how organized crime–once considered a problem isolated to a few, mostly urban, communities–has become globalized and now affects a wide range of the UN’s activities, including the maintenance of international peace and security. It describes how crime has become a serious threat in almost every theater where the UN has peace operations, and juxtaposes this with an analysis of mission mandates which contain few operational references to crime. Case studies based on field research in Haiti, Guinea-Bissau, and Kosovo show the impact of organized crime on stability, governance, and development and demonstrate the challenges faced by the international community in helping states to deal with this problem. The report argues that unless peace operations can identify and deal with spoilers involved in illicit activities at an early stage, better assess conflict economies, and disrupt illicit markets, organized crime will continue to flourish in theaters where peace operations are deployed–hindering their operability and the very development, security, and justice that the UN seeks to promote. The report concludes by making recommendations designed to increase the effectiveness of peace operations when dealing with transnational organized crime. Details: New York: International Peace Institute, 2013. 86p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 10, 2013 at: http://www.ipinst.org/images/pdfs/ipi_e-pub-elephant_in_the_room.pdf Year: 2013 Country: International URL: http://www.ipinst.org/images/pdfs/ipi_e-pub-elephant_in_the_room.pdf Shelf Number: 129609 Keywords: Illicit MarketsOrganized Crime (International) |
Author: United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) Title: Confiscation of the Proceeds of IP Crime: A modern tool for deterring counterfeiting and piracy Summary: The theft of Intellectual Property (IP) in the forms of trademark counterfeiting and copyright piracy is a socio-economic problem of enormous scale that has escalated significantly in the last decade. In one country after another, the massive infiltration of counterfeit and pirated products has created an enormous drain on national economies around the world — crowding out billions in legitimate economic activity and facilitating an “underground economy” that deprives governments of revenues for vital public services, forces higher burdens on tax payers, dislocates hundreds of thousands of legitimate jobs and exposes consumers to dangerous and ineffective products. Moreover, the Internet is increasingly exploited as an illicit marketplace for counterfeiting and piracy. The latest estimate from ICC BASCAP indicates that the total global value of counterfeiting and piracy could reach a staggering peak of USD 1.7 trillion by 2015. IP crime has emerged as a lucrative and growing new activity for organized criminal networks. There is strong evidence that organized criminal groups are moving into counterfeiting and piracy in ever-growing numbers. The high profits and low risk associated with modest penalties and lax enforcement of intellectual property IP crime has made this a major new business opportunity for organized crime networks. Today, counterfeiting and piracy play a key role in the operations of transnational criminal organizations. One recent example of this was the Interpol-led Operation “Black Poseidon”. The operation targeted products being traded illicitly across Eastern Europe (namely Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Turkey and Ukraine) by transnational organized crime groups. Counterfeit products included computers, pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals, electronics, alcohol and cigarettes. The operation led to the seizure of goods worth over €120 million and 1,400 persons under arrest or investigation. The emergence of organized IP crime accelerates the globalization of counterfeiting and piracy, helps fund other criminal activities such as extortion, illegal drugs and human trafficking, compromises the international financial system for money laundering purposes and, ultimately, makes it more difficult for existing law enforcement measures to be effective. Details: Turin, Italy: United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute, 2013. 84p. Source: Internet Resource: accessed August 10, 2013 at: www.iccwbo.org Year: 2013 Country: International URL: Shelf Number: 129618 Keywords: Copyright PiracyCounterfeit ProductsCounterfeitingCriminal NetworksOrganized Crime (International)Theft of Intellectual Property |