Organised Crime and Law Enforcement (Routledge Studies in Organised Crime)

Using empirical data, including qualitative interviews with law enforcement practitioners and available documentation, this book examines the challenges that sophisticated organised criminal networks present for police and criminal intelligence agencies and the ways in which these challenges can be better understood and managed through taking a network perspective to both organised crime and law enforcement. It examines organised crime through the conceptual lens of ¿networks¿ and advances our understanding of the ways in which organised crime groups actually organise as well as how networks contribute to the success and survival of criminal organisations.

Drawing on examples such as fusion centres and task forces, designed to facilitate the sharing of information and intelligence and the use of network analysis, this book provides an original contribution to the field that will be of interest to a diverse audience of researchers and practitioners concerned with organised crime and law enforcement.