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Interventions on Preventing and Reducing Individual’s Involvement in Organized Crime: A Systematic Review
Fri, September 8, 9:30 to 10:45am, Educatorio Fuligno, Floor: ground floor / cloister entrance, Fuligno 4Abstract
Involvement in organized crime (OC) is a cause of growing societal concern as it thwarts individuals from reaching conventional goals, aggravates the seriousness of their criminal behavior, and complicates their return to a crime-free life. Therefore, governments increasingly invest money and effort to prevent individuals from joining OC in the first place. The current study involves a systematic review to gain more insight into the current scientific knowledge of (the effectiveness of) interventions targeting OC involvement. The following research questions are addressed: Which risk and protective factors are targeted by the interventions? What is known about the effectiveness of these interventions, and which elements of the intervention contribute to that effectiveness? This study conducted a comprehensive literature search and a screening process to identify studies meeting the selection criteria. The most substantive inclusion criteria were that an included study must describe an intervention that focused on 1) reducing OC involvement, 2) the individual level, and 3) social support. Six primary databases were consulted (on 31 October 2022), resulting in 13.409 documents after removing duplicate studies. A title and abstract screening session in ASReview (machine learning program) resulted in 499 potentially relevant documents. Through citation chaining, 9 more documents were found. After a full-text screening round, 2 studies were finally included. In this presentation, the results of the systematic review will be discussed, specifically by looking at the risk and protective factors and the available information on the effectiveness and effective components of the interventions.