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Issue 5, May 2003

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Recruitment
The group is keen to increase membership and would ask members to help in this recruitment process, in particular, by suggesting possible new members. Members do not have to be from an ECPR institution. We are interested in expanding our network to recruit academics and practitioners so that we can have an exchange of ideas and develop projects together. Please suggest names if you can.

Books by SGOC Members

We are please to announce there are two books by SGOC members this spring: Reversible Destiny by the Schneiders and The European Union and Internal Security by Wyn Rees et al. Also, Organised Crime and the Challenge to Democracy is coming soon in July. It is a edited book by F. Allum and R. Siebert containing papers ECPR Joint Session in Grenoble (France), 2001. For the information related to the books can be find in New Books section below.

Update of the May issue

This May issue will probably be reviewed and reworked in July due to the editors circumstances, which unable us to work for the eNewsletter during June. Please check the site for update in July.

Calls for Papers

Annual Conference of the Georgia Political Science Association
Hate Crimes Conference
Gendering Criminals and Victims: the 20th Century
Cyber Crimes Expo
ECPR Joint Sessions: Uppsala

Calls for Contributions

We are looking for:
Book reviews
500-900 words, original books in language of your choice but reviews should be written in English. Indicate the language of the book.  <send>
Conference reports
about 1000 words max.  in English. Share your experience at conferences with those who are unable to attend them. <send>
Essays:
Criminal Organisation and Terrorism
Women in organised crime
Organised crime in Asia-Pacific
History of organised crime
Human Trafficking
Organised crime in Africa
Political corruption
Cybercrime and the internet
Studying organised crime
Drug Trafficking
Fighting Organised Crime: Law Enforcements tools?
Organised Crime and Democracy

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Organised Crime Control in Europe

The editors are not responsible for the views expressed by the authors.  

The European Union

Individual States

The European Union and the fight against transnational organised crime: towards a new shape of common policy? [PDF: 50K]

Francesca Longo   

Towards a European Criminal Law Against Organised Crime [PDF: 258K]
This is a report of Joint Project to Counter Organised Crime (1998-2001)

Vincenzo Militello   Max-Planck-Institut  

Measuring Organized Crime in Western Europe    Policing in Central and Eastern Europe;  1996

Toon van der Heiden  

Justitielle Einbindung und Kontrolle von Europol  [PDF: 118K]

Sabine Gleß, Rainer Grote, and Günter Heine   Max-Planck-Institut  

To see more of Max-Planck-Institut online publications, click here

SEC(2001)433 Commission Staff Working Paper: Joint Report from Commission Services and Europol "Towards a European Strategy to Prevent Organised Crime" [PDF]

Commission of European Communities   

 Report on Programme FARCONE 2000 [PDF]   15 February 2001

European Commission Unit B/2 Fight Against Organised Crime   

COM(2001)254 final Fight Against Fraud Action Plan 2001-2003 [PDF: 150K]

European Commission   

 Brussels Declaration on Preventing and Combating Trafficking in Human Beings [PFD]   29 November 2001 

European Commission   

Organised Crime: comprehensive strategy for combating organised crime 
Completed strategy on combating organised crime and other strategies related to the area of security , such as police co-operation, fight against human trafficking, and cross-border corruption, click here.

European Commission  

 Trafficking in Women: A Comprehensive European Strategy   

European Commission Justice and Home Affairs   

 Europe’s fight against economic and transnational organised crime: progress or retreat?   April 2001

Council of Europe   

For recommendation related to this document, see here  

 The London Statement: Defeating Organised Crime in South Eastern Europe [PDF]   

Lancaster House Ministerial Conference, London November 2002   

Italy's Criminal Gangs Change Their Tactics [2,529K]

Alison Jamieson  The Jane's Intelligence Review  

Task Force Strategy 2002-2003: Serious and Organised Crime in Northern Ireland [PDF: 477K]   

UK Organised Crime Task Force  

Northern Ireland Threat Assessment 2002 [PDF: 1370K]

UK Organised Crime Task Force   

This document analyses the threats posed to society in Northern Ireland by criminal organisations. For documents regarding past assessments and strategies, click here

A Comparative Analysis of Organised Crime Conspiracy Legislation and Practice and Their Relevance to England and Wales  Home Office Online Report 17/02  

Michael Levi and Alaster Smith  

Lucha contra el crimen organizado   1996

Ministerio del Interior (España)  

Balance 2000: Servicious más relevantes contra el crimen organizado

Comisaría General de Policía Judicial (España)   

To view the 2001 report of Comisaría General de Policía Judicial (PDF format), click here, and for Balance 2002 click here Those of before 1999, click here
Action and Progress in the Fight Against Organised Crime [PDF]   25 November 2002

Report presented at the Ministerial Conference on Organised Crime in South East Europe  

The United Nations

Symposium on Transnational Organised Crime   February 2002

Unicri  

all the papers presented are available on the site.  
United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime (2000)

United Nations   

NGO

Gruppo Abele
Gruppo Abele is a Non-Governmental Agency based in Turin (Italy) and was established in 1966. <Read>
For report regarding its activities, Gruppo Abele 2002
Gruppo Abele also publish magazines, such as Narcomafie

Related Information

Interview with Mr Antonio Vitorino (European Commissioner of Justice and Home Affairs)

UNODC Newsletter (April 2002) 

Convention on Laundering, Search, Seizure and Confiscation of the Proceeds from Crime  

Strasbourg, 8.XI.1990   

Action Against OC Networks: Europol supported EU wide operation against illegal immigration

Europol Press Release (10 April 2002) 

USA and Europol singed a full co-operation agreement

Europol Press Release (20 December 2002)   

Speech of Mr Fortescue at the First Meeting of the EU Forum on Organised Crime Prevention 17 May 2001
EU Forum on prevention of organised crime 30 October 2002
Fight against organised crime (Justice and Home Affairs)   
National human-trafficking rapporteur presents second report

Press Release Dutch Department of Justice, 21 January 2003   

Trafficking in organs in Eastern Europe CM(2001)49

750th Meeting 18-23 April 2001, Item 6.2

Articles

Losing the battle on organised crime: what the ACPO report says

The Observer (Sunday, 9 December 2001)   

Is Organised Crime a Balkan Problem?

The Southeastern European Times (9 May 2001)  

More Than 1,000 Arrested in Crackdown on Organised Creim in Serbia

The Southeastern European Times (21 Mach 2003)   

Closing Europe's back door

The Observer (Sunday, 4 February 2001)   

The Carpathian Godfathers: Gang Violence Comes to Brasov

Central Europe Review (18 October 1999)   

Web Sites

 The Jane's Intelligence Review
 Free index search for organised crime related articles available now!
 The Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe
 European Commission Justice and Home Affairs
 Council of Europe Justice and Home Affairs
 Europol
 European Court of Justice (CURIA)
 Council of Europe Treaty Office
 Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF)
 The Baltic Sea region the Task Force Organized Crime
 Europol Press Release
 European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) Reports
 UK Organised Crime Task Force
 The Northern Ireland Office Online
 Dutch Department of Justice in Dutch and in English
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Book Reviews

Recent Articles

New Books

The European Union and Internal Security: Guardians of the People?
Mafias du monde : organisations criminelles transnationales : actualité et perspectives
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Reversible Destiny: Mafia, Antimafia, and the Struggle for Palermo
The European Union and Internal Security: Guardians of the People?
Organised Crime and the Challenge to Democracy
The Politics of EU Police Cooperation: Toward a European FBI?
Vanguard Revolutionaries in Latin America: Peru, Colombia, Mexico
Mafia Brotherhoods: Organized Crime, Italian Style
Organizing Crime in Chinatown: Race and Racketeering in New York City, 1890–1910

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