A cold case. Seven years. One DNA match through CODIS.
Ashley Spence's attacker was eventually connected to at least 10 other cases.
Are Russia's 'Wild 90s' Returning? Crime, Veterans & Putin's Failure | Russian Organized Crime Ep. 4
In Episode 4 of 7, Mark Galeotti examines whether Russia is heading back to the lawless chaos of the 1990s — and why Putin's failure to lead on the issue of returning war veterans could make a surg...
Robbie Barbero, from Renaissance Philanthropy, notes the strong connection between childhood lead exposure and future arrests.
Why is Russia hunting a 64-year-old crime boss?
Russia has just issued an international arrest warrant for an obscure 64-year-old crime boss and that single document tells you a lot about the current state of the Russian underworld. In the first...
Something is breaking in the Russian underworld | Bratva
Mark Galeotti has spent decades studying Russian organized crime. He drank with gangsters, visited them in prison, and even got shot at once (but it wasn't meant to hit, anyway).
Bratva is his mon...
Transitional Justice in Syria: Strategy, Trials, and the Test of Public Trust
...s and one trial crystallized, for many Syrians, the tension at the heart of the transitional justice process: the spectacle of a regime insider finally on trial, and the persiste...
How Sanctions Chaos Fuels Russian Organised Crime | Russian Organised Crime Ep. 2
In episode 2 of 7, leading Russia expert Mark Galeotti examines how geopolitical turmoil — from Middle East instability to the partial lifting of sanctions on Russian oil — is creating dangerous lo...
How Sanctions Chaos Fuels Russian Organised Crime | Russian Organised Crime Ep. 2
In episode 2 of 7, leading Russia expert Mark Galeotti examines how geopolitical turmoil — from Middle East instability to the partial lifting of sanctions on Russian oil — is creating dangerous lo...
How Has the Russia-Ukraine War Affected Organised Crime? | Russian Organised Crime Ep. 1
In Episode 1 of 7, expert Mark Galeotti explores how Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 transformed the criminal underworld — disrupting decades of Russian-Ukrainian gang coop...
Until very recently, it was thought that transitional justice could only be applied at the end of conflicts or periods of repression. This ...
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How does organised crime take over a city – and can mayors act before it does?
Chris Blattman, economist and political scientist at the University of Chicago, joins Oliver Hanney and Kurtis Lockha...
The operation — and the cartel’s swift nationwide retaliation — highlights both the risks of leadership disruption and the enduring reach of organized crime networks.
ACLED's latest discussion in ...
26th Conference of the Alliance against Trafficking in Persons - Day 1
Trafficking for exploitation in criminal activities, commonly referred to as forced criminality, is a fast growing and underreported dimension of human trafficking. Based on data recorded across th...
Idea Audaz # 16: Un ecosistema criminal que aprendió a permanecer invisible
(ES) La triple frontera Paraguay- Brasil-Argentina alberga uno de los ecosistemas criminales más sofisticados del Cono Sur. Contrabando, narcotráfico y tráfico de armas conviven en un entorno cola...