Newsletters

 

From October 2001 to April 2021, CIROC published annual reports on organized crime and the fight against it in both its Dutch-language Nieuwsbrief and English-language Newsletter. These reports contain information from CIROC's own research or from research conducted by other institutions, usually linked to the theme of a seminar.

 

Below, you can download the latest newsletters from 2019, 2020 and 2021. Have you missed a newsletter or would you like to reread a particular topic? Send a message to our secretariat, and we will send you the old editions.
 

  • Archive newsletters

  • Newsletter October 2021

    Introduction
    Analysis
    - Antwerp and Rotterdam: A comparative analysis of the import and distribution of cocaine in two European port cities
    - 25 years of tackling large-scale drug crime in the Netherlands
    - Has the Netherlands become a Narco-state? Some reflections after the shooting of Peter R. de Vries
    Reflection
    - Organizing a Theme-Based Conference Online
    New Publications of Dutch Authors (in English)

    Newsletter August 2020

    Introduction
    Analysis
    - On irregular migration from Eritrea, human smuggling and ‘criminal networks’ - Joseph Whittle and Georgios A. Antonopoulos
    - Are there “foreign mafias” in Italy? The case of Nigerian secret cults in the North of Italy - Martina Cataldo
    - Organized crime or local nuisances? Criminalizing drugs and hanging out in the Wildemanbuurt in Amsterdam-West - Thijs Jeursen and Maggie Achleitner
    - Raising Moral Barriers. An empirical study on the Dutch approach to outlaw motorcycle gangs -Teun van Ruitenburg
    -‘High-risk’ Dogs, Dog Fighting and Criminal Networks in the Netherlands - Daan van Uhm, Dina Siegel, Anton van Wijk and Nienke Endenburg
    New Publications of Dutch authors (in English) 
     

    Newsletter March 2019

    Introduction
    Analysis
    - The punitive meanings of immigration control: The Spanish case - Byron Villagomez Moncayo
    - The Illegal Adoption Market - How the German and Dutch Adoption Systems Facilitate the Trafficking in Children for the Purpose of Adoption - Elvira Loibl
    - Hostage-taking as contract enforcement among migrants and smugglers - Charlotte Baarda
    - The client side of everyday corruption in Central and Eastern Europe: The case of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in Romania - Jing Hiah
    Discussion
    - Estimating market sizes and the volume of money laundering: the inconvenient truth? - Hans Nelen
    New Publications on organized crime by Dutch authors