This essay and review examines to what extent the conceptual framework of Situational
Crime Prevention can be meaningfully applied to the phenomena variously labelled …

This essay and review seeks to assess the state of empirical research on transnational
organized crime, drawing on a review of the English language academic literature. It …

Since the 1990s, there has been a global proliferation of transnational organized crime
(TOC). Turkey, as a transit site between the East and the West, has been one of the routes …

This chapter examines transnational organized crime in the European context. There are
two sides to this issue. First of all, transnational organized crime is an internal problem in the …

Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) is commonly associated with offenders who freely
roam a globalized world. This chapter provides an alternative view; one which assumes that …

Se identifican las variables que deben abordarse en el estudio del hurto o robo de
automotores y el diseño de estrategias contra este delito. Para tal propósito, se realizó una …

Techniques for presenting objects spatially via density maps have been thoroughly studied,
but there is lack of research on how to display this information in the presence of several …

Since the end of the 1990s, the police in the Netherlands has regularly reported on the
criminal activities of Lithuanian itinerant groups as part of the mobile banditry phenomenon …

Migration research and literature exist on a polarized continuum between “force” and “will” of
individuals or collective groups who choose to relocate across geographical space for …

I am thankful for the professional and personal support that I have received since entering
the graduate program in the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers in 2005. This dissertation …