Situational prevention of organised crimes

242 Pages·2010·5.235 MB·English

by  Bullock, Karen, Tilley, Nick, Clarke, R. V. G

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Situational Prevention of Organised
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Series editor: Gloria Laycock
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Situational Prevention of Organised Crimes
Edited by Karen Bullock, Ronald V. Clarke and Nick Tilley
Situational Prevention of
Organised Crimes
Edited by
Karen Bullock, Ronald V. Clarke
and Nick Tilley
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Contents
Abbreviations vii
Figures and tables viii
Notes on contributors ix
Foreword by Gloria Laycock xv
Preface x vii
Karen Bullock, Ronald V. Clarke and Nick Tilley
1 Introduction 1
Karen Bullock, Ronald V. Clarke and Nick Tilley
2 Situational crime prevention and cross-border crime 17
Edward R. Kleemans, Melvin R.J. Soudijn and Anton W. Weenink
3 Preventing organised crime: the case of contraband cigarettes 35
Klaus von Lampe
4 Sex trafficking: a target for situational crime prevention? 58
James O. Finckenauer and Ko-lin Chin
5 Situational prevention of organised timber theft and related
corruption 81
Adam Graycar and Marcus Felson
6 Situational organised crime prevention in Amsterdam: the
administrative approach 93
Hans Nelen
7 Mortgage fraud and facilitating circumstances 111
Barbra van Gestel
8 Infiltration of the public construction industry by Italian
organised crime 130
Ernesto U. Savona
9 Situational prevention against unlawful influence from
organised crime 151
Lars Korsell and Johanna Skinnari
Situational Prevention of Organised Crimes
10 Organised crime and crime scripts: prospects for disruption 172
Graham Hancock and Gloria Laycock
11 Policing mobile criminality: towards a situational crime
prevention approach to organised crime 193
Stuart Kirby and Sue Penna
Index 213
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Abbreviations
ACPO Association of Chief Police Officers
ALPR Automatic Licence Plate Recognition
AML Anti Money Laundering Regulations
Regulations
BCS British Crime Survey
BIBOB Act Public Administration Probity Screening Act (in the Netherlands)
BKA Bundeskriminalamt (German Federal Crime Intelligence Office)
Brâ Brottsfôrebyggande râdet (Swedish National Council for Crime
Prevention)
CITES Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild
Flora and Fauna
CPIA Criminal Procedures and Investigation Act (1996)
EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
FATF Financial Action Task Force
FIU Financial Intelligence Unit (in the Netherlands)
HMRC Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs
HSE Health and Safety Executive
ICE Immigration and Customs Enforcement (in the USA)
IOM International Organisation for Migration
MCA Marine Coastguard Agency
NGO Non-governmental organisation
NIJ National Institute of Justice, US Department of Justice
NIM National Intelligence Model
NCIS National Criminal Intelligence Service
OCG Organised crime group
RIEC Regional Intelligence and Expertise Centre (in the Netherlands)
RILO Regional Intelligence Liaison Office for Western Europe
SAR Suspicious activity report
SBA Bureau for Screening and Auditing (in the Netherlands)
SCP Situational crime prevention
SCPO Serious Crime Prevention Order
SIO Senior investigating officer
SOCA Serious Organised Crime Agency
SOCPA Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005
SOCU Serious and Organised Crime Unit
TIR Transport International Routier
UNODC United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
WODC Research and Documentation Centre (in the Netherlands)
Figures and tables
Figures
10.1 Representation of the constituent parts of organised crime 177
Tables
1.1 Twenty-five techniques of situational prevention 3
1.2 Two models of organised crime 7
1.3 Facilitating conditions that enable theft of cars for export 8
1.4 Step-by-step modus operandi for trafficking in stolen cars 9
6.1 Intervention techniques within the framework of the Van
Traa Project 99
6.2 Intervention techniques within the framework of the SBA
Bureau 103
6.3 Intervention techniques within the framework of the
Integrity Bureau 106
9.1 Preventive methods against unlawful influence from
organised crime 167
10.1 Robbery script 173
10.2 Breakdown of prepay mobile phone use for operations A,
B and H 180
10.3 The integrated organised crime script 186
Notes on contributors
Karen Bullock is a lecturer in criminology at the University of Surrey. She
holds a PhD from the University of London and spent almost 10 years as
a researcher at the UK Home Office. Her research interests lie primarily
in crime reduction, policing and interventions with offenders.
Ko-lin Chin is Professor, School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University,
Newark, New Jersey. He is author of Chinese Subculture and Criminality:
Non-traditional Crime Groups in America (Greenwood Press 1990), China­
town Gangs: Extortion, Enterprise and Ethnicity (Oxford University Press
1996), Smuggled Chinese: Clandestine Immigration to the United States
(Temple University Press 1999), Heijin: Organized Crime, Business, and
Politics in Taiivan (M.E. Sharpe 2003), The Golden Triangle: Inside Southeast
Asia's Drug Trade (Cornell University Press 2009) and co-editor of
Handbook of Organized Crime in the United States (Greenwood Press 1994).
Currently, he is conducting a research project on sex trafficking in Asia
and the US with Professor James O. Finckenauer.
Ronald V. Clarke is University Professor at the School of Criminal Justice,
Rutgers University. Trained as a psychologist, he holds a PhD from the
University of London. Dr Clarke was employed for 15 years in the British
Government's criminology research department, where he had a signifi­
cant role in the development of situational crime prevention and the
British Crime Survey. He is founding editor of Crime Prevention Studies
and is author or joint author of more than 220 publications, including, The
Reasoning Criminal (Springer-Verlag 1986), Situational Crime Prevention:
Successful Case Studies (Harrow and Heston 1997), Become a Problem Solving
Crime Analyst (Jill Dando Institute 2003) and Outsmarting the Terrorists
(Praeger 2006).
Marcus Felson is Professor of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University. He
is author of Crime and Nature (SAGE Publications 2006) and Crime and
Everyday Life (SAGE Publications, fourth edition, 2010). He originated the
routine activity approach to crime rate analysis, and is currently studying
the co-offending process. A graduate of the University of Chicago, he
received his PhD from the University of Michigan. Professor Felson works
on very down-to-earth theories with very tangible applications. Professor
Felson has been a guest lecturer in many nations throughout the world.
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