Emerging Crimes: The Challenges that the Criminal Justice System Faces Today

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

In the context of strong globalization and the emergence of new technologies, crime has evolved adopting new forms of delinquency, taking place in different contexts, and involving the activity of criminals that are technically savvy, up-to-speed, and organized in structure and practice. This thematic panel brings together researchers, academicians and federal law enforcement agents from the criminal justice system to discuss the new challenges for criminal investigation as related to cyberspace, emerging technologies and criminal networks. Timely topics that have particular relevance in today’s development of criminological research, education and knowledge building for policy analysis and practice purposes in the criminal justice system.

Sub Unit

• Area VI. The Criminal Justice System / 50. Challenging Criminal Justice Policies

Individual Presentations

• Assessing the crime-business nexus: towards a risk-based methodology - Jelle Janssens, Faculty of Law & Criminology Ghent University, Belgium

• When cyber criminals strike, how do investigators respond? - Shawn M. Bradstreet, Special Agent in Charge U.S. Secret Service

• Global cooperation is critical in combating transnational organized crime - Robert K. Tripp, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI, San Francisco Field Office

• Cybercrime & cyberwarfare: Two birds of a feather? - Celien De Stercke, Ghent University, Belgium

Discussant

• Hedi Nasheri, Kent State University