IASOC Presents: Overcoming Difficulties in Examining Organized Crime and Illicit Enterprise

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

With Sean Penn gaining access to Chapo Guzmán shortly before his recapture by Mexican forces, the question of how much access can researchers reasonably expect to gain vis-à-vis organized crime groups. The papers in this panel demonstrate some of the ways that researchers go about investigating and chronicling what large-scale criminal enterprises do, using police records and open source data as well as developing tools to measure the seemingly untraceable behaviors of money launderers.

Sub Unit

• Area XII: Methodology / 69: Advances in Evaluation Research

Individual Presentations

• On the Use of Law Enforcement Files in the Research of Organized Crime - Sean Patrick Griffin, The Citadel

• Measuring the Untraceable: A composite indicator to assess the risk of money laundering at sub-national level - Diana Camerini, Transcrime; Michele Riccardi, Università Cattolica - Transcrime

• Conceptualizing and Understanding Organized Crime: Life narrative, ethnography and case study approach - Jana Arsovska, John Jay College of Criminal Justice

Chair

• Mark Ashton Berry, Cardiff University