This article explores recent developments within the UK drug market: that is, the commuting
of gang members from major cities to small rural urban areas for the purpose of enhancing …

This paper, which is the introduction to this special issue on 'Spaces of Organised Crime',
aims to analyse the nexus between organised crime groups and territories. Such groups are …

In the digital age, space has become increasingly structured by the circuitry of global capital,
communications and commodities. This 'network society'splinters and fragments territorial …

The aim of the current study was to understand how gangs have changed in the past 10
years since Pitts'(2008) study in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. The study …

This article introduces the special issue on UK gangs and youth violence. Written to coincide
with the launch of the National Centre for Gang Research at the University of West London …

The hidden world of illicit drug markets, including how they change over time and the role of
the police in responding to them, has been a principal concern of criminologists for decades …

Background Many efforts have been undertaken to construct an overview of various aspects
of illicit drug distribution in the United Kingdom. Yet given that national, regional, and local …

Based on the results of two research projects from the Netherlands, this paper explores how
street-oriented persons adapt and use digital technologies by focussing on the changing …

The widespread nature of school violence among public high schools negatively affects
educational systems, resulting to school possible dropouts and poor academic results …

Institutionalized gangs are youth groups that have developed the ability to persist, expand,
and restructure organizationally around criminal activities and have imposed their norms …