Gomez-Quintero, Juliana;
Chainey, Spencer;
Borrion, Herve;
(2022)
A Method for Organized Crime Harm Assessment: Connecting Associated Crimes.
Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice
10.1093/police/paac046.
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Abstract
The increasing call for harm-focused approaches warrants a method for assessing the harm of organized crime. A harm assessment of organized crime can be of use to law enforcement agencies for prioritizing efforts and designing policies that aim to counter organized crimes based on the harm they cause. It can also be used by other institutions that can intervene and support law enforcement indirectly in preventing and counteracting organized crime. However, assessing the harm of organized crime entails dealing with the complex structure of intertwined criminal activities and addressing the fact that organized crime groups commit other crimes to support their main criminal activity. This research introduces a novel method for Organized Crime Harm Assessment (OCHA method) and demonstrates it with the application to the case of heroin trade into and within England and Wales. The challenges of applying the OCHA method are identified and discussed, as well as its limitations, contributions, and opportunities for future research.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | A Method for Organized Crime Harm Assessment: Connecting Associated Crimes |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/police/paac046 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paac046 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Social Sciences, Criminology & Penology, HUMAN TRAFFICKING, DRUG TRAFFICKING, SCRIPT ANALYSIS, FRAMEWORK, POLICY, INDEX, CRIMINOLOGY |
| UCL classification: | UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Security and Crime Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10148159 |
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