Seminars archive 2020 - 2025

On December 3, 2025, the sixth edition of the online 24-hour conference on organized crime took place, organized by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. CIROC once again contributed to this conference as a partner.
 

During the CIROC seminar held on Wednesday, September 17, at the Debatpodium Arminius in Rotterdam, three themes took center stage: the phenomenon of underground banking, the networks and financial facilitators involved in dubious financial transactions, and the strategies and approaches developed nationally and internationally to curb underground banking and money laundering in general. 
 

On Wednesday, February 12, 2025, CIROC organized a seminar on the nature and approach to organized crime from detention. The reason for this was the report “Grip of in de Greep” (Grip or in the Grip) published in December 2024 by researchers at Erasmus University Rotterdam on the consequences of the approach to undermining crime for DJI. 
 

On October 30 and 31, 2024, the fifth edition of the online 24-hour conference on organized crime took place. This conference was organized by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. CIROC once again contributed to this conference as a partner.
 

Useful concept, political tool, or media hype?

In recent years, the world has witnessed the emergence of entities commonly referred to as narco-states, regions or countries where drug trafficking and associated criminal activities have permeated the socio-political and economic fabric, exerting profound influence and control.
 

Attention to (traditional) forms of property crime seems to have waned in the Netherlands in recent years. At the same time, the issue has been on the EU agenda for a number of years under the heading of “organized property crime.” 
 

On October 18 and 19, 2023, the fourth edition of the 24-hour online conference on organized crime took place, organized by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. Additionally, we are pleased that CIROC was contributing as a partner to this conference. This yearly conference is designed to cater to a global audience without the necessity of international travel. This event brings together experts and stakeholders for in-depth discussions and insights on organized crime.
 

This seminar focused on the digitization of police work. Digital technologies are increasingly being used to tackle insecurity with the aim of improving police work.

This seminar focused on the results of a three-year study into the approach to drug-related organized crime.
 

“The approach to undermining will be strengthened by amending legislation, investigation, penalties, data exchange, and detention. In doing so, we will draw on lessons learned from the fight against the mafia in Italy,” according to the coalition agreement of the new cabinet. 
 

The recent outbreak of violence against Dutch journalists, culminating in the murder of Peter R. de Vries, has raised questions among the public, in political debate, and among academic researchers.
 

We are familiar with criminal families in organized crime from popular films such as The Godfather and series such as The Sopranos. In reality, family ties also play an important role in subversive crime.
 

More and more governments, policymakers, journalists, and researchers seem to be devoting themselves to combating or analyzing subversion. For example, a “broad offensive against organized subversive crime” is currently being developed, in which both repression and prevention are to be given a strong impetus.