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Bulgaria remains high-risk country for the initiation of money laundering schemes. The high share of informality in its economy, coupled with the low level of enforcement against corruption and organized crimes, renders the country’s financial system highly susceptible to money laundering. Bulgaria has made significant progress in the area of anti-money laundering, both in terms

The report provides background knowledge on radicalisation and puts forward a framework for risk assessment indicators throwing a bridge between academic knowledge and empirical findings on the one hand, and policy practice, on the other. The report seeks to aid the understanding of the risk factors and processes of radicalisation by providing a system of

Issues of radicalisation and violent extremism need to be tackled at their roots. If unaddressed, they can further advance division and polarisation and trigger reactionary and extremist attitudes in other parts of society. The situational assessment is an instrument for systematic collection and analysis of statistical data, open source data and intelligence information pertaining to

The study presents the first in-depth examination of human smuggling networks and operations in Bulgaria. It also reviews trends in Norway related to both human trafficking and smuggling, two crimes which have rarely been examined together, with the latter being the focus of little overall research. The study aims to increase understanding of developments in

The European policies adopted by several EU Member States after 9/11 focus mainly on perpetrators and their profiles to prevent phenomena of terrorism and radicalisation. Unfortunately, they consider only one aspect of the multiple fronts, namely the inmates and suspicious radicals with their narratives. Mainstreaming strategies are based upon old-fashioned concepts of the preventive armamentarium

The use of IT technology for the planning and implementation of illegal activities has been gaining ground in recent years. Nowadays, through the web and the social media, it is possible not only to divulge advertising for the disclosure of illicit activities, but also to take action that in the past needed to have people

Organized Crime (OC) and Terrorist Networks (TN) have risen to major and persistent threats for the European Union and its population. The IT growth of the past decade caused a migration of OC/TN to the cyber domain as well as the introduction of cybercrime. As a consequence, the technological dimensions of criminal activities are becoming

This paper contributes to ongoing debates about the value of the confiscation of proceeds of crime approach by reviewing the current literature as well as examining a subset of the Joint Asset Recovery Database (JARD) data to see what the evidence can demonstrate about the performance of the regime. The data we examined suggest that,

Cybercrime is now far away of hackers fighting with computer systems just for fun or to teas administrators. The growth of the digital economy completely changed the criminal scene where access to assets stored in the computer’s systems becomes a objective of the crime. Possibility of high profit combined with practically very low risks made

The net impact of interventions that prevent or reduce the associated costs of risky behaviors are not always positive. In some cases, protection measures can lead people to “forget to be afraid”, resulting in higher risk taking and negative net results Lead The net impact of interventions that prevent or reduce the associated costs of