Organized Crime Activities
Organized Auto Theft
Corruption
Cyber Crime
- Internet Crime
News stories and blogs from mafiatoday.com
- Cyber Crime
From the FBI web site, includes overview, cyber threats and scams, key priorities, enforcement, specific cases, protection and links to other web sites
- Cybercrime.gov
Web site of the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the U.S. Department of Justice. Includes extensive information on hacking, intellectual property crime, and “cybercrime.”
- Cybercrime: Key links
From the Australian Institute of Criminology, includes definitions and general information, theft, fraud and financial crime, illegal internet content, investigative and policing issues, other published resources, websites, agencies and organisations, online victimisation, and prevention guides
- Internet Fraud Watch
A National Consumers League web site, which helps consumers distinguish between legitimate and fraudulent promotions on the Internet. This web page offers prevention advice, lists the latest Internet-based scams, and provides a On-line Incident Report Form to report Internet fraud in the United States or Canada.
- Communications Fraud Control Association
Official web site of the CFCA, a non- profit international educational association working to combat telecommunications fraud. Includes quarterly journal, fraud alerts, and handbook to prevent toll fraud.
- Computer Crime Research Center
Includes news, events, articles, legislations, links, and an archive
Drug Trafficking
- World Drug Report
This report by the UN Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention describes the extent and development of drug trafficking and use internationally, including international enforcement efforts.
- Global Illicit Drug Trends
First released in 1999, this report is now prepared annually by the Research Section of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme
- United Nations Bulletin on Narcotics
Recent news on the results obtained in the control of narcotic drugs and the struggle against addiction, includes issues dating as far back as 1949
- National Drug Threat Assessments for the U.S.
Produced by the now-defunct National Drug Intelligence Center
- United States-Canada Border Drug Threat Assessment, 2007
A threat assessment of drug smuggling and trafficking across the Canada-United States border.
- The Global Drugs Trade
A special report by BBC News Online and BBC World Service.
- The Narco News Bulletin
“Reporting on the drug war and democracy from Latin America”
- United States Drug Enforcement Administration
The DEA is the lead federal agency in enforcing U.S. narcotics laws. This site contains extensive information on narcotics production, smuggling, trafficking groups, and statistics
- DEA Intelligence Reports
Intelligence reports on a number of drug production and trafficking issues from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration.
- International Narcotics Control Strategy Report
Annual report of narcotics trafficking worldwide and US enforcement efforts, by The Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (U.S. State Department).
- Major Drug Traffickers
Overview by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
- United States Office of National Drug Control Policy
Official web site of the ONDCP.
- National Drug Strategy Network
Extensive information on a number of relevant topics including news briefs, drug law enforcement, drug treatment help, drug prevention methods, drugs and crime data, and drug policy reform.
- Drug Smuggling – Special Report
Various articles on drug smuggling from a number of media sources.
- America’s Habit. Drug Abuse, Drug Trafficking, & Organized Crime
President’s Commission on Organized Crime (1986). Chapter 3: “Drug Trafficking and Organized Crime”, courtesy of the Schaffer Library of Drug Policy.
- The Drug Library
Billing itself as the “world’s largest online library of drug policy”, this site, presented by the Drug Reform Coordination Network, is largely dedicated to critiquing the so-called war on drugs.
- RCMP Drug Enforcement
Web page of the RCMP, includes overview of drug trafficking and RCMP drug enforcement in Canada, links to intelligence reports
- RCMP “Drug Situation” Reports
Annual reports describing drug importation, cultivation, trafficking in Canada
- International Drug Control Programme
Official web site of the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention
- The Drug Wars
Various stories on international drug trafficking and enforcement from the PBS news program “Frontline.”
- Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission
Official web site of Organization of American States‘ Commission
- Drugscope
British organization dedicated to research on drug-related issues.
- Common Drugs
A brief description of the major consumer drugs, including synthetic drugs such as LSD, Ecstacy, and Methamphetamine
Canada’s Marijuana Industry
Economic Crime
Counterfeiting (Currency and Product Piracy)
Currency Counterfeiting
Product Counterfeiting/Piracy/Copyright Infringement
Fraud
- Common Fraud Schemes
From the FBI
- White collar crime: An Overview
Legal definitions of white collar crime, including various criminal offences that fall within this omnibus term. Courtesy of Cornell University, Legal Information Institute
- Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
Includes information, statistics and recent media stories on fraud
- Crimes of Persuasion
Provides description of information on a wide range of fraud schemes, under such headings as consumer fraud, telemarketing fraud, business opportunity scams, money problem scams, work-at-home; includes links to other relevant sites
- Scams and Swindles
Links to media articles, mostly dealing with white collar crime.
- Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre
Information on the latest scams, statistics on fraud, including identity theft
- Fraud Alert
Web site of the London Metropolitan police; includes information on a wide variety of frauds
Enforcement and Victim Complaints
Securities Fraud
Cheque (Check) Fraud
- Cheque fraud
From Wikipedia
- National Check Fraud Center
Web site offering assistance, information, and alerts regarding counterfeit checks, forgery, check fraud, bank fraud and other forms of white collar crimes. Includes an on-line reporting mechanism
Identity Theft/Fraud
Mass Marketing Fraud
Securities Fraud
Environmental Crimes
- Environmental Crime
Overview provided by Interpol, including its response
- Environmental Investigation Agency
The EIA is an independent, international organization committed to investigating and exposing environmental crime. This web site contains full text of all EIA reports, and news and updates on campaigns.
Gambling and Bookmaking
Labour Racketeering
Loan Sharking
Money Laundering
- Yahoo News
Links to articles, up-to-date media stories, and other web sites dealing with money laundering and its enforcement.
- University of Exeter
Comprehensive site on money laundering, with definitions & descriptions, history, processes and techniques, & enforcement
- Billy’s Money Laundering Information Web site
Contains information on money laundering issues, including history, definitions and descriptions, prevention, detection and enforcement, legislation, vulnerable industries, and international enforcement initiatives.
- Money Laundering Links
Links to news stories & other web sites on money laundering.
- Money Laundering in the 21st Century: Risks and Countermeasures
This edited volume of papers from the Australian Institute of Criminology explores a number of contemporary issues regarding money laundering and its enforcement.
- Financial Action Task Force
Includes annual reports of the FATF on money laundering as well as reports on trends and techniques in money laundering globally.
- Drug Trafficking, Money Laundering and Financial Crimes
Part of the annual International Narcotics Control Strategy Report by the U.S. State Department, The Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. Includes information on money laundering & its enforcement for countries around the world.
- International Money Laundering Information Network
IMoLIN is an Internet-based network dedicated to the fight against money laundering. Included are links to other relevant international bodies, a bibliography, a database on legislation throughout the world, an electronic library, a calendar of events, and a news forum.
- MoneyLaundering.com
Information on legislation, regulations and enforcement from around the world
- Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
Official web site of FinCEN, a U.S. Treasury Department agency mandated to support domestic and international anti-money laundering efforts through information collection, analysis and sharing, and technological assistance.
- Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre
AUSTRAC is Australia’s anti-money laundering regulator and specialist financial intelligence unit.
- Financial Transaction Reporting and Analysis Agency of Canada
FINTRAC is Canada’s anti-money laundering regulator and specialist financial intelligence unit.
- Association of Certified Money Laundering Specialists
Association dedicated to advancing the knowledge, skills and experience of those involved in detecting and preventing money laundering, and to promote the development and implementation of sound anti-money laundering policies and procedures.
- Enhancing Contributions To Combating Money Laundering: Policy Paper
Outlines the roles played by the IMF and World Bank in combating money laundering and financial crime, and in protecting the international financial system.
Smuggling and Contraband Markets
Contraband Markets
Smuggling of and Trafficking in Arms and Nuclear Materials
Migrant Smuggling/Trafficking in People
- Alliance Against Modern Slavery
An NGO whose vision is to “combat modern slavery by collecting resources, building programs, and creating alliances among a network of local and global partners so that every person has the opportunity for sustainable freedom.”
- United Nations on Human Trafficking & Migrant Smuggling
Information from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, including definition and descriptions, news & events, prevention, protection & prosecution, tools and publications and a human trafficking case law database
- Trafficking in Persons annual reports
Prepared by the U.S. State Department and includes recent trends and enforcement by the U.S. and other countries
- Trafficking in Women in the United Kingdom
Liz Kelly and Linda Regan. 2000. Stopping Traffic: Exploring the Extent of, and Responses to, Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation in the UK. London: Home Office. Police Research Series Paper 125.
- United Nations
Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Air and Sea, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime. New York United Nations (2000).
- Literature Review
Trafficking In Human Beings and Organized Crime: A Literature Review by Christine Bruckert, Ph.D. (2002)
Smuggling and Trafficking in Wildlife