Gangs and Organized Crime Groups: Connections and Similarities
Date Published
1997
Publication Type
Survey
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Organized crime
Combating Transnational Organized Crime by Linking Multiple Large Ivory Seizures to the Same Dealer
Date Published
September 2018
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Legislation/Policy Analysis,
Instructional Material
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
DRAGON BREATHES FIRE: CHINESE ORGANIZED CRIME IN NEW YORK CITY
Date Published
1993
Publication Type
Survey
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Adaptation, Rationality, and Advancement: Ethnic Albanian Organized Crime in New York City
Date Published
August 2016
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Causes of Organized Crime: Do Criminals Organize Around Opportunities for Crime or Do Criminal Opportunities Create New Offenders?
Date Published
November 2000
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
White-Collar Crime in the Savings and Loan Scandal
Date Published
1993
Publication Type
Survey
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Final Report: Soviet Emigre Organized Criminal Networks in the United States
Date Published
1998
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Strategic Mobsters or Deprived Migrants? Testing the Transplantation and Deprivation Models of Organized Crime in an Effort to Understand Criminal Mobility and Diversity in the United States
Date Published
November 2015
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Crimes Committed by Terrorist Groups: Theory, Research, and Prevention
Date Published
2005
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Enter the Dragon: Inside Chinese Human Smuggling Organizations
Date Published
November 2002
Publication Type
Report (Study/Research)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Savings and Loan Fraud as Organized Crime: Toward a Conceptual Typology of Corporate Illegality
Date Published
1993
Publication Type
Issue Overview
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Trust Thy Crooked Neighbor: Multiplexity in Chicago Organized Crime Networks
Date Published
August 2016
Publication Type
Historical Overview
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Europe Meets U.S. in Crime and Policy
Date Published
1996
Publication Type
Issue Overview
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
The Internationalization of Criminal Justice
Date Published
2000
Publication Type
Issue Overview
Agencies
NIJ
Russian Emigre Crime in the United States: Organized Crime or Crime That Is Organized?
Date Published
1996
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Impact of Crime on Communities
Date Published
1995
Publication Type
Survey
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
The Future of Terrorism
Date Published
November 2009
Series
Publication Type
Research (Theoretical)
Agencies
NIJ
Building Clean: The Control of Crime, Corruption, and Racketeering in the Public Construction Markets of New York City - A Preliminary Assessment of Efforts Made by the Office of the Inspector General, New York City School Construction Authority
Date Published
1996
Publication Type
Survey
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Terrorism, Risk, and Legislation
Date Published
May 2008
Publication Type
Legislation/Policy Analysis
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Slow Violence of State Organized Race Crime
Date Published
September 2014
Publication Type
Research (Theoretical),
Report (Grant Sponsored)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Research on Facilitators of Transnational Organized Crime: Understanding Crime Networks' Logistical Support
Date Published
December 2018
Publication Type
Research (Applied/Empirical),
Report (Study/Research),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Investigating Violent Crime: The Prosecutors Role - Lessons Learned From the Field
Date Published
June 2019
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Instructional Material (Programmed)
Agencies
BJA-Sponsored
Gangs
There is no single definition of a gang, but there are a number of widely accepted criteria for classifying groups as gangs (Decker and Curry, 2003; Esbensen et al., 2001; Klein, 1995; Miller, 1992; Spergel, 1995). This review used the following criteria: (1) the group has three or more members, generally aged 12-24; (2) members share an identity, typically linked to a name and/or symbols...