Organised crime
Research Topic
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Research problems linked to this topic
- Improved knowledge of the harms and impacts of SOC activity, including the economic impact.
- How do illicit goods enter the estate and what role do established crime networks play? How effective are measures at preventing and disrupting the supply of drugs and other illicit goods entering the estate and impacts on organised crime more generally?
- Capability against money laundering and other illicit transactions, including relating to alternative currencies.
- Measuring the impact of disruption of organised criminal networks
- How social media can facilitate, monitor and discourage crime and recruitment into organised crime groups.
- What are the levels and drivers of serious organised crime and the illicit economy in prisons, including drugs, psychoactive substances, and mobile phones?
- Combating illicit markets.
- Understanding how SOC markets work, and how they interact and impact each other
- Motivations for committing modern slavery offences, and types of organisations, businesses and services that enable offending.
- How can DWP best manage the fraud threat posed by organised criminal gangs? What can DWP learn from other organisations operationally using big data and risk analysis via Data Science techniques to target fraud?
- Use of technology by organised criminals, and changes to the threat due to future technologies.
- The changing modes and operation of criminal behaviour, the size and characteristics of the offender population, and pathways into offending.
- How do organisations or other non-individual parties in the courts and tribunals system vary by, for example, size of organisation, nature of work or industry? How do these characteristics compare across case types?
- Changes in the opportunity structure for crime and in the drivers of the tendency to criminal behaviour, whether social, innate or environmental.
- Understanding how criminal business models operate and succeed.
- How does intra-prison crime manifest and what are the associated costs?