How do criminal networks converge (for example, how do threat actors collaborate to move illicit funds)? What opportunity structures enable collaboration? Which enablers feature across the activities of multiple OCGs?
Background
Understanding the drivers and pathways into criminal activity, as well as the perceptions,
motivations and decision-making of criminals is essential to formulating the necessary
prevention and enforcement strategies. It is also important to understand how different types
of criminality intersect and enable each other as part of understanding the wider criminal
ecosystem. This can help to determine how disrupting one form of offending behaviour can
impact other forms of criminality. Below sets out the key gaps in our understanding of
offender pathways and behaviours
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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Economic Crime Areas of Research Interest ARI report July 2025 1
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