Recent Publications on Organized Crime the Year 2023 Klaus von Lampe

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The publication monitor compiles recent academic work on organized crime from 2023, listing more than 370 English-language books, journal articles, and book chapters. Selection followed two search strategies: reviewing tables of contents from 120 peer-reviewed journals and searching Google Scholar/Books with targeted terms covering networks, illicit markets, governance, and trafficking-related activities. Inclusion reflects a broad understanding of organized crime, focusing on crimes, criminals, and social spheres organized by criminals, subject to minimum quality standards and coverage rules.

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Trends in Organized Crime (2024) 27:503–527 [https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-024-09551-3](https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-024-09551-3) PUBLICATION MONITOR Recent Publications on Organized Crime: the year 2023 Klaus von Lampe1 Accepted: 14 October 2024 / Published online: 9 November 2024 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2024 The study of organized crime continues to attract scholars across the globe and from a variety of academic disciplines, as evidenced by the collection of publications presented here. Listed are more than 370 English-language publications on organized crime and related topics from the year 2023. Books are included by copyright date. Journal articles and chapters in edited volumes are included by the year of the issue or volume they appear in. Pertinent publications were identified applying two search strategies. First, the tables of content of 120 peer-reviewed journals across various academic fields of study were reviewed. Second, Google Scholar and Google Books were searched for relevant literature, using different search terms, namely “organized crime,” “criminal network,” “illicit network,” “illegal market,” “criminal governance,” “extra-legal governance,” “illegal governance,” “mafia,” “racketeering,”“smuggling,” and “trafficking.” Authors and publishers also provided information. In cases where the thematic scope of a publication was not discernible from the title, the abstract and sometimes the full text were consulted. The aim was to draw up a list of academic publications that reflect the multi-facetted nature of the study of organized crime, understood broadly to encompass the study of the organization of crimes, the study of the organization of criminals, and the study of the organization of social spheres by criminals. Publications that fall within this thematic scope were included unless – in the case of not well-established open-access outlets – minimum quality standards were not met. This does not necessarily mean that a publication not listed here is deemed to be of inferior quality, as relevant literature may well have been overlooked in the search. All articles from volume 26 of Trends in Organized Crime are included without a separate examination of the thematic scope. Abid, M., Bothello, J., Ul-Haq, S., Ahmadsimab, A. (2023) The Morality of Informality: Exploring binary oppositions in counterfeit markets. Organization Studies 44(5):687–711 . * Klaus von Lampe [Klaus.vonLampe@HWR-Berlin.de](Klaus.vonLampe@HWR-Berlin.de) 1 Department of Police and Security Management, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Alt-Friedrichsfelde 60, 10315 Berlin, Germany Accardo, P., De Feo, G., De Luca, G. (2023) With a little help from my friends. Political competition in the shadow of organized crime. Journal of Public Economics 227(1):104,998 . Achilli, L., Kyle, D. (eds.) (2023) Global Human Smuggling: Buying Freedom ina Retreating World, 3rd ed. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. Aguayo, S. (2023) The Great Evasion: Human Mobility & Organized Crime in Mexico & Its Borders. Daedalus 152(2):86–99 . Ahmadi, Z., Nguyen, H.H., Zhang, Z., Bozhkov, D., Kudenko, D., Jofre, M., Calderoni, F., Cohen, N., Solewicz, Y. (2023) Inductive and transductive link prediction for criminal network analysis. Journal of Computational Science 72(1):102,063 . Ahmed, Z.S. (2023) The Taliban-led Afghanistan and Transnational Crimes: National and Regional Responses. In: M. Vieira (ed.), Global Approaches on State Fragility and Organized Crime (pp. 225–240) . San Jose: UPEACE Press. Albanese, J.S. (2023) Development and Surges of Organized Crime: An Application of Enterprise Theory. In: H. Nelen and D. Siegel (eds.), Organized Crime in the 21st Century: Motivations, Opportunities, and Constraints (pp. 11–24). Cham: Springer. Alemika, E., Apard, E., Frowd, P., Ireland, L., Klantschnig, G. (2023) Professor Etannibi A

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What is the main purpose of the publication monitor on organized crime for 2023?

It compiles a list of academic publications reflecting the multi-faceted nature of organized crime, broadly covering the organization of crimes, criminals, and social spheres by criminals.

How were relevant publications identified for inclusion?

Two strategies were used: reviewing tables of contents from 120 peer-reviewed journals and searching Google Scholar and Google Books with multiple targeted search terms.

What rules were applied to decide whether a publication was included?

Publications matching the thematic scope were included unless, for not well-established open-access outlets, minimum quality standards were not met; journals in volume 26 of Trends in Organized Crime were added without additional thematic screening.

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