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Is the Romanian ‘Direcţia Naţională Anticorupţie’ (Anti-Corruption Directorate)…
The Direcţia Naţională Anticorupţie was established in order for Romania to lower its levels of…
Handbook for professionals assisting victims of trafficking
The Handbook tackles the legal framework of protecting and supporting victims of trafficking, the…
Risk of Islamist radicalisation in Bulgaria: a case study in the Iztok…
The qualitative study is the first of its kind to be conducted in Bulgaria. It is intended to aid in…
Money laundering in Bulgaria: state of affairs and policy implications
Bulgaria remains high-risk country for the initiation of money laundering schemes. The high share of…
Monitoring radicalisation: a framework for risk indicators
The report provides background knowledge on radicalisation and puts forward a framework for risk…
Situational assessment of extremist trends
Issues of radicalisation and violent extremism need to be tackled at their roots. If unaddressed,…
Cross-border organised crime: Bulgaria and Norway in the context of the migrant…
The study presents the first in-depth examination of human smuggling networks and operations in…
Analysis of the Prison Strikes in France
The European policies adopted by several EU Member States after 9/11 focus mainly on perpetrators…
On the identification of suspicious users on social networks
The use of IT technology for the planning and implementation of illegal activities has been gaining…
Emerging challenges in Organized Cyber-Crime and Terrorist Networks
Organized Crime (OC) and Terrorist Networks (TN) have risen to major and persistent threats for the…
Governing Organised Crime via the Back Door!
This paper contributes to ongoing debates about the value of the confiscation of proceeds of crime…
Cybercrime and Organized Crime
Cybercrime is now far away of hackers fighting with computer systems just for fun or to teas…
When safety interventions backfire
The net impact of interventions that prevent or reduce the associated costs of risky behaviors are…
The current situation of the prisons as a space of radicalization
In February 2016, the magazine "Enfoque" in its first issue, published an article in which it raised…
Are Booter Services Indicative of a new form of organised crime group online?
The formation of mafia type crime groups that facilitate organised crime online has been widely…
Transnational Organised Crime Groups in a Changing Socio-Political and…
The internet has not only changed the ways that crime is organised and committed, especially…
Minors at the services of the Islamic state
In 2017, children were victims of attacks on a frightening scale due to the total disregard of…
“Hacktivism”: about the origins, meaning and history of online Activism.
The phenomena of “hacktivism” rose to the media's attention from 2011 onwards and peaked together…
The Cascade Effect in Big Data Cybercrime
The big data phenomenon is driving ‘upstream’ data related cyber-dependent crimes such as data…
How Big Data Feeds Big (Data) Crime
Big data helps organisations predict social behavior. It brings with it a range of exciting new data…