The 2021 PaCCS Virtual Conference on Serious Organised Crime seeks to develop our understanding of serious organised crime and identify ways to undermine the threats and harms engendered by serious organised crime. We aim to do so by creating the conditions for two-way exchange of knowledge. During this conference, policy-makers, practitioners and researchers will come together to debate insights from research in a collaborative process that should generate findings and recommendations that make a difference through delivering impact.
Resources and reference materials designed to support conference proceedings are as follows:
Schedule and Bios:
- A list of delegate and participants bios, including workstream allocations, can be downloaded here, or viewed as a PDF here.
- The Research Snapshot Presentation Schedule for Day 1 and Day 2 can be found here.
- Videos from the conference can be found here.
Presentation and Research Snapshot Reference Materials:
Understanding Serious Organised Crime:
- The role of Turkey as a producing and transit country in counterfeit products that target EU countries, Dilara Bural (Teesside)
- Understanding Serious Organised Crime: The Role of the UK in Central Asia’s Clientelist Politics, Katherine Crofts-Gibbons (King’s College London, Russia Institute)
- Lessons from the past: How history can help us care for modern slavery survivors today, Anna Forringer-Beal, (Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge)
- At the Edges of Terror: An Assessment of the Role of Lone Wolf Terrorists, Terrorist Group Participants and Organised Criminals in Contemporary Terrorism, Martin J. Gallagher (University of Lancaster/ Police Scotland)
- Newspaper representations of transnational human trafficking, Isle Ras (Leiden University)
- The Social Harm of Self-Generated Indecent Images of Children – Is it a problem for Law Enforcement?, Nicole Woodhall (The Open University / The National Crime Agency)
- Secur.Ports Organised Crime in Commercial Seaports, Dr Anna Sergi, University of Essex
- From Vulnerability to Violence: Gangs and ‘Homicide Booms’ in Trinidad and Belize, Adam Baird, Coventry University
- “Breaking bad?” Gangs, masculinities, and murder in Trinidad, Adam Baird, Matthew Louis Bishop & Dylan
Kerrigan - Exploring Hidden Narratives in the West African Tramadol trade and transport of migrants, Gernot Klantschnig, Elodie Apard & Philippe Frowd
- Journey into Hell […where] migrants froze to death, Christiana Gregoriou, Ilse A Ras & Nina Muzdeka
- Case Digest: Initial Analysis of the Financial Flows and Payment Mechanisms Behind Wildlife and Forest Crime, Traffic
- Trading Years for Wildlife: Wildlife crime from the perspectives of offenders in Namibia, Traffic
- World Wildlife Crime Report: Trafficking in protected species, UNODC
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Illegal Wildlife Trade: The case of Ivory and Tanzania, Chris Alden, LSE
- Understanding the challenge: how cybercrime has evolved to become a modern Serious Organised Crime, David S Wall, University of Leeds
- The Transnational Cybercrime Extortion Landscape and the Pandemic: changes in ransomware offender tactics, attack scalability and the organisation of offending, David S Wall, University of Leeds
- The Social Harm of Self-Generated Indecent Images of Children – Is it a Problem for Law Enforcement?, Nicole Woodall, Centre of Policing Research and Learning
Undermining: Serious Organised Crime:
- The Micro-Geopolitics of Organised Crime, Fausto Carbajal-Glass (UCL)
- Understanding the organisation of tax abuse in professional football, Peter Duncan (Manchester)
- The organisation of mortgage fraud and the regulation of financial services in England and Wales, Jonathan Gilbert (School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University)
- Brexit and Internal Securtiy: Anticipating Threats from Organised Crime, Jakub Pintér (UCL)
- Prosecuting Financial Crimes Involving Cryptocurrencies, Arianna Trozze (UCL)
- The ‘Disposable Army’ and Traditional Organised Crime, Dr Anna Sergi, University of Essex
- C.R.I.M.E. Countering regional Italian Mafia Expansion, Dr Anna Sergi, University of Essex
- Scenario-Driven Assessment of Cyber Risk Perception at the Security Executive Level, Simon Parkin, Kristen Kuhn & Siraj Ahmed Shaikh
- Detecting and Preventing Mass-Market Scams, Tom Sorell, University of Warwick
- The implications of developments in cybercrime for cybersecurity and law enforcement? (AND overcoming the data-sharing paradox), David S Wall, University of Leeds
Day 3 Reference Materials:
