Organizd crime, including drug smuggling is stifling Latin America's economy, according to a recent report by the World Bank. Photo by Carrasco Ragel/EPA-EFE June 27 (UPI) --Latin America and the ...

In an increasingly complex economic landscape, where corporate power often seems boundless, a provocative question emerges: ...

Economic Network of Organized Crime Revealed An approach based on network theory reveals the pattern of links between Mafia-controlled firms involved in organized crime and the rest of the economy.

Unfortunately, organized retail crime continues to spike at alarming rates. More than half of retail businesses reported an increase in 2021 — and none reported a decrease, according to a ...

Key Takeaways: > Europol's 2025 threat assessment reveals criminal organizations are increasingly destabilizing European institutions through corruption and exploitation. > Nearly all organized crime ...

Earlier this year, 20 different Dollar stores in the Detroit area were robbed within 22 days. To make matters worse, organized retail crime, in which groups of people work together to steal from ...

Mills and Mosca explain how this bureaucracy came to be and was incorporated into the power elites of the United States and Europe, through a long period in which bureaucratic elites weaved their ...

National Retail Federation President Matt Shay responds to the data report that organized retail crime increased by 26.5% yearly in 2021 on "Varney & Co." ...

In all the studies, we have used the same foundation to make our case for the connections between elites and organized crime. At its apex, this is based on court documents from cases that have been ...

The economic costs of organized crime have been estimated for the case of southern Italy by Pinotti (Economic Journal 2015; 125, F203–F232, 2015): using synthetic control methods, he finds that, due ...

Organized crime has become one of the biggest obstacles to economic development in the region, according to a World Bank report. The report points to four main drivers: territorial control ...