The Administrative Approach to Battle with High-Risk Criminal Networks

• In Event: Unpacking High-Risk Criminal Networks: Bridging Gaps in Identification, Assessment, and Prevention

Abstract

How can high-risk criminal networks in Europe be dealt with effectively? That is the central question of the PREVENT project for the Dutch Center for Crime Prevention and Safety (CCV). CCV is investigating and mapping effective administrative measures to combat them. Organized crime is increasingly taking place in international, profit-oriented networks. These criminal networks pose a serious threat to security in Europe. They successfully use the legal “upper world” to conduct or hide criminal activities. An administrative approach to serious and organised crime is a complementary way to prevent and tackle the misuse of the legal infrastructure through multi-agency cooperation by sharing information and taking action to set up barriers.
CCV will research the preventive and administrative measures against High-Risk Criminal Networks (HRCN). The objective of this research is to create an overview of existing prevention and administrative measures against organised crime specifically High-Risk Criminal Networks (HRCN). This will be done at three levels: EU, national and local. The findings will be summarized in a report providing this overview and serve as input for the overall PREVENT objectives. This research includes reports and publications, legislation, strategies and action plans and local projects and initiatives. This research will provide you with an overview of the different (administrative) measures on high-risk criminal networks. Together with Brå from Sweden, CCV is responsible for collecting administrative measures that are already currently being taken against criminal networks.
We would like to tell you more about the methodology we use, how the work package relates to the other work packages in PREVENT, the most interesting and effective barriers that are applied in a number of our European cities and why you can never simply copy projects and why certain interventions in one country do not necessarily work in another country.

Authors

• Lienke Hutten, Stichting Centrum voor Criminaliteitspreventie en Veiligheid

• Joeri Vig, Stichting Centrum voor Criminaliteitspreventie en Veiligheid