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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
A lattice of social, economic and psychological factors supports recruitment to both criminal and terrorist networks. A combination of broken families, social decay, bad housing, few amenities, poor education and limited...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Surrey
The project aims to understand the links between drug markets, county lines, and gang violence, and has the necessary expertise to do so.
Focusing on representations of Jamaican organised crime, this project aims to connect arts and humanities approaches with social science and policy-oriented perspectives on transnational criminal organisations. The accel...
Funded by: AHRC
Lead research organisation: University of Leicester
The project focuses on representations of Jamaican organized crime, which is related to the question, but does not fully answer it.
The proposed research draws on my pioneering doctoral research to seek an alternative approach in tackling the drug problem around U.S.-Mexico border communities. The idea emerges at a time when Latin American countries...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Edinburgh