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Qualitative Crime Pattern Identification

Friday, November 3, 2023

Marine Ports and Organized Crime

Even if your jurisdiction has no nexus to marine ports, understanding how ports facilitate organized crime activity is good to know. How might your jurisdictions' crime have a connection? 

Organized Crime Research Brief no. 25 - Marine Ports and Organized Crime is available at this link.

Seaport Vulnerability to Criminal Networks: A Mixed Method Approach to Measuring Criminological Vulnerability in the Top 30 U.S. Container Ports is a research paper available at this link.

The book Elements of Crime Patterns presents variables that can be combined for thinking about such links.

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