Klaus von Lampe

Berlin School of Economics and Law | HWR · Department of Police and Security Management (FB 5)

This essay and review examines to what extent the conceptual framework of Situational Crime Prevention can be meaningfully applied to the phenomena variously labelled ‘organized crime’. Several approaches are identified which in different respects imply modifications to the situational framework in order to accommodate assumed specificities of ‘org...

Organised crime networks are often characterised as being held together by bonds of trust, but the conventional wisdom regarding the relation between trust and organised crime lacks a comprehensive theoretical and empirical underpinning. The purpose of this paper is to explore where deeper research on this issue may lead and how it can potentially...

Organized Crime: Analyzing Illegal Activities, Criminal Structures, and Extra-legal Governance provides a systematic overview of the processes and structures commonly labeled “organized crime,” drawing on the pertinent empirical and theoretical literature primarily from North America, Europe, and Australia. The main emphasis is placed on a comprehe...

Objectives This article examines the decision-making of consumers of illegal goods and services, using the illegal cigarette market in the South Bronx as a case study. Methods Sixty-seven adult smokers residing in the South Bronx (New York City) were purposively recruited and placed into 13 focus groups stratified by gender and age to discuss thei...

Outlaw motorcycle clubs have spread across the globe. Their members have been associated with serious crime, and law enforcement often perceives them to be a form of organized crime. Outlaw bikers are disproportionately engaged in crime, but the role of the club itself in these crimes remains unclear. Three scenarios describe possible relations bet...

This chapter investigates the development of car theft in Germany in an era where concerns for the environment and the climate drive efforts to reduce the use of cars and to move away from cars powered by fossil fuel to battery-powered cars. Data were obtained from open sources and from interviews with experts from the public and private sectors (n...

Für den Phänomenbereich der Kfz-Entwendung ergibt sich ein paradoxes Bild. Einerseits sprechen die relativ günstigen Tatgelegenheitsstrukturen dafür, dass es sich um ein erhebliches und zunehmendes Problem handelt. Andererseits zeigen die verfügbaren Statistiken der Polizei und der Versicherungswirtschaft, dass sich die Fallzahlen auf historisch ni...

This encyclopedia entry provides a brief and concise treatise on the nature and variations of organized crime.

This study and review seeks to provide a systematic overview of the debate on 'clan crime' in Germany and to present and tentatively assess the scattered evidence on the nature of the phnomenon from the perspective of the study of organized crime.

This essay celebrates the contributions of Carlo Morselli to the study of organized crime. Drawing on a review of Morselli’s published work, the main lines of his research are highlighted.

This chapter provides an overview of the criminology of organized crime.

Criminal defiance in Europe and beyond F r o m o r g a n i s e d c r i m e t o c r i m e-t e r r o r n e x u s

Comprehensive information on the elemental profile of tobacco used in counterfeit cigarettes is limited. This study investigated the concentration of toxic elements in counterfeit cigarettes seized in the US and compared the results with their genuine equivalents. Concentration of various elements, including As, Ca, Cd, Co, Cu, Fe, K, Mg, Mn, Ni, P...

This chapter examines the process leading up to outlaw bikers in Germany indiscriminately being singled out as a major crime problem. The analysis illuminates how the outlaw biker phenomenon has been perceived by police agencies and by the media since the 1960s. A sequence of changes in perception over the past fifty years is identified and a numbe...

Traditional pollen preparation techniques provide clear residues for pollen identification; however, such methods are time-consuming , requiring repeated centrifugation, heating, and digestion with high-concentration hazardous chemicals. Tobacco leaves can effectively trap environmental pollen due to hairy surface and terpene-rich exudates. A new t...

The volume covers a wide collections of subjects related to organising and organised transnational crime all over Europe.

The chapters in this book give an impressive view on the many faces of cross-border crime in Europe, ranging from human smuggling, arms trafficking, fraud and money laundering: many cross-border spectrums of crime. See and download other CCC volumes and you will be well up-dated.

Corruption, organised and economic crime, fraud and money laundering are important narratives about crime in the EU as well as Eastern Europe where corruption is still endemic.

The chapters in this Cross-border Crime volume covers the many faces of crime for profit in Europe. It deals with organised crime in Scotland, failed EU mission in Albania the off-shore world of shady finances and corruption in football and banking.

In view of the past, part of the chapters raise the quuestion of relativity concerning crime, whether about economic crime in Ukraine, Kosovo or the EU's watchdog OLAF.

Introduction to the Cross-border Crime Colloquium hosted in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Visit our website for free downloads

This is a list of English-language publications on organized crime and related topics primarily from the year 2019. Included are all articles from volume 22 of Trends in Organized Crime. Pertinent publications were identified through searches in various databases using search terms including “organized crime,” “criminal networks,” “mafia,” “traffic...

This chapter assesses the state of organised crime research in Germany. The first part provides a brief overview of the situation of organised crime in Germany as it presents itself in official and media accounts. The second part describes findings of a systematic analysis of the output of researchers based in Germany who study organised crime. Thi...

International and Transnational Crime and Justice - edited by Mangai Natarajan June 2019

International and Transnational Crime and Justice - edited by Mangai Natarajan June 2019

This essay presents an introduction to the special issue on outlaw motorcycle clubs in Europe. Apart from providing an overview of the papers contained in the special issue, it presents a classificatory scheme for the analysis of the links between outlaw biker clubs-also known as outlaw motorcycle gangs (OMCGs)-and crime. Against the backdrop of th...

The chapters in this edited volume include a vibrant mix of scholars from political science, sociology, criminology, law, and practical experiences. This volume is the first of its kind in German-speaking countries addressing the complex issue of ‘drugs, darknet and organized crime’. The multidisciplinary approaches to the new phenomenon demonstrat...

Background There is scant research on methods used to identify counterfeit Marlboro cigarettes. Methods Systematic analysis of internal tobacco industry documents characteristics of counterfeit Marlboro cigarettes. Results In the industry documents we identified as relevant, there were 42 characteristics of counterfeit Marlboro cigarettes. Overal...

This study seeks to update and expand our understanding of the perceptions and purchasing patterns of smokers of single cigarettes (‘loosies’) in disadvantaged urban areas. Semi-structured guides were used in thirteen focus groups with 67 self-identified adult smokers from the South Bronx section of New York City in summer 2013. There is wide avail...

Objective Document the use of ultraviolet watermark in counterfeit joint New York City/New York State cigarette tax stamps to assess the scale at which distributors of illegal cigarettes adapt to measures protecting the integrity of the system of tobacco tax collection. Methods In 2016, we collected 2357 empty discarded cigarette packs along a str...

Background: There are no independent studies measuring the availability of premium brand counterfeit cigarettes in New York City from licensed retailers. Methods: We forensically analyzed the cigarette packaging of Marlboro Gold (n = 1021) purchased from licensed tobacco retailers in New York City, using ultraviolet irradiation and light microscop...

This paper provides an introduction to the articles and report excerpt submitted to the special issue of Trends in Organized Crime on ‘Organised crime and illegal markets in the UK and Ireland’. The aim of the special issue is to draw together empirical research findings and theoretical accounts on various manifestations of organised crime in the p...

Abstract Objectives Develop a method that yields high rates of sensitivity and specificity for determination of counterfeit cigarette packs for three popular brands: Newport, Marlboro (‘Red’) and Marlboro Gold. Methods Using systematic keyword searches, we identified industry documents from the University of California, San Francisco's Legacy Toba...

This essay and review examines the historical development and the status quo of the cigarette black market in New York City as of 2015. Special emphasis is given to the situation in the South Bronx. Data are drawn from published research, official sources and open sources. Similar to other parts of the United States, the illegal cigarettes that are...

This chapter discusses patterns of relations among criminals that are not directly geared towards the commission of profit-making crimes. It argues that there is a broad range of criminal structures that are similar in that they perform the same core functions of creating and reinforcing social bonds between criminals, provide channels for privileg...

Objective: Estimate cigarette tax noncompliance (tax avoidance and evasion) before and after mid-semester recesses in a New York City college campus, where the majority of students are residents of nearby lower-tax states, using data derived from garbology, an archaeological method that reconstructs patterns of human behavior from discarded materia...

This study examines variations in the scale of operation, size of organization and the degree to which illegal enterprises are integrated into the legal economy. Data were obtained from two sources, pertaining to the illegal cigarette trade in the area of Berlin, Germany, during the 1990s: case statistics of the German Customs Service on cigarette...

This chapter examines the link between poverty and crime with a closeup look at the illegal cigarette market in the South Bronx, drawing on a focus group study involving 67 adult smokers residing in the South Bronx. The link between poverty and the cigarette black market is much more complex than the demand for a cheap alternative to highly taxed l...

Objectives: We examined the impact of a change in New York tax law on the numbers of untaxed cigarettes bootlegged from Native American reservations and resold in the South Bronx. Methods: Discarded cigarette packs were systematically collected in 30 randomized South Bronx census tracks before and after the amended tax law went into effect in 20...

When we look back at the past decades of crime and criminal policy development, a substantial part of which – 15 years – is covered by the Cross-border Crime Colloquium Volumes, one cannot avoid a feeling of relativity: within a lifeti me some moral and criminal issues have changed from 'threat' to 'acceptable' or the other way round, or are only n...

Objective: To determine the scope of the cigarette black market in a socioeconomically deprived inner-city area in the US, taking the South Bronx in New York City as a case study. Design: The South Bronx Litter Pack Survey collected discarded cigarette packs (n=497) along 30 randomised census tracts to quantify the prevalence of counterfeit, leg...

This paper examines the accuracy of predictions about the future development of organised crime in Germany made between the mid-1960s and mid-1990s. Data were drawn from a systematic content analysis of the journals 'Die Polizei' and 'Kriminalistik' and from published law enforcement reports and other open sources.

a Organised crime, whether or not in its Transnational manifestation, is usually depicted in huge threatening dimensions. However, despite this sometimes superhuman representation one should not forget that we are dealing with a human phenomenon and, therefore, should not lose sight of the corresponding human dimensions. This also concerns related...

Introduction: The illegal trade in tobacco products is a phenomenon that only recently has gained some prominence despite the fact that it has a much longer history. There are three main schemes characterising this trade in the last two decades: (1) bootlegging: buying an amount of cigarettes that exceeds custom regulations, (2) large-scale smuggli...

This study explores the history of the illegal production, distribution, and smuggling of cigarettes in mainland China. Data were obtained from a content analysis of 931 media reports retrieved from LexisNexis for the time period 1975 until 2010, and from other open sources. The illegal cigarette trade first emerged in the form of violations of sta...

This essay and review seeks to assess the state of empirical research on transnational organized crime, drawing on a review of the English language academic literature. It identifies major themes and research questions as well as methodological approaches, and summarizes key findings. It also addresses challenges to meaningful research, arguing tha...

This is a list of publications on organized crime, primarily published between March and June 2014.Albonetti, Celesta A., Changes in federal sentencing for forced labor trafficking and for sex trafficking: a ten year assessment, Crime, Law and Social Change 61(2), 2014, pp. 179–204.Apollonio, Andrea, Sacra Corona Unita and ‘Ndrangheta: “Structural”...

This paper presents a conceptual framework for the analysis of transnational organized crime which centers on the practical problems offenders face. The framework breaks down the elusive concept of transnational organized crime to categories that highlight differences in the extent and nature of the transnationality of crime and that identify key l...

INTRODUCTION The smuggling and illegal distribution of cigarettes is a global phenomenon in a dual sense. It can be observed in some form or other on every continent, and there are some schemes that span the globe, connecting distant places such as a clandestine factory in China producing counterfeit cigarettes with a street corner in London where...

This chapter discusses how models in terms of heuristic devices, can potentially lead to a better theoretical understanding of organized crime.

This chapter provides a systematic overview of the illegal production, smuggling, and illegal distribution of cigarettes. Cigarettes are essentially a legal good. What makes the trade in cigarettes illegal is the evasion of excise and customs duties. As a result, cigarettes are being made available at a cost below legal retail prices, providing bot...

This article aims at providing an account of the social organization of the cigarette counterfeiting business in the People's Republic of China-a business that has been feeding the cigarette black markets around the globe. Specifically, we aim to exhibit the scale and nature of cigarette counterfeiting in mainland China, describe the practices and...

This chapter discusses the question to what extent Situational Crime Prevention can successfully be applied to the prevention of 'organized crime', drawing on an eclectic set of examples primarily from the trafficking in stolen motor vehicles.

This essay and review on criminal network analysis provides an introduction to the special issue “Human Capital and Social Capital in Criminal Networks”. It traces the history of the application of network analysis in the study of organized crime since the early 1970s. It argues that while criminal network analysis has brought a new level of method...