Multidisciplinary Tools and Approaches to Organised Crime Research

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

Members of the Organised Crime Research Network (OCRN) at UCL are currently applying tools and methods from different disciplines to understand the security issues of organised crime. The panel will present results from ongoing research at UCL OCRN, and discuss the applicability of such research in the detection, prevention, and disruption of organised crime.

Sub Unit

• Area V: Types of Offending / 23: Organized Crime and Corruption

Individual Presentations

• Location, location, location – Environmental impact on transnational organised crime ties - Sanaz Zolghadriha, University College London

• Factors associated with extortion compliance in Mexico: Who pays and why? - Patricio Estevez Soto, University College London

• Gun production and prevalence across the U.S.: Explaining Spatial-temporal correlates, links and patterns - David Perez Esparza, University College London

Chair

• Paul Gill, University College London