Organised crime always favours stable jurisdictions with weak institutions and corrupt environments that provide relatively safe opportunities to base and conduct criminal activity, increasingly penetrating and influencing politics, economies and social life, expanding criminal markets and introducing new criminal technologies. However, due to its high adaptive capacity, organised crime effectively leverages chaos and social upheaval…
Wartime Crisis Mode: The Impact of Russia’s Aggression on the System of Social Control in Ukraine (Crime, Institutes, and Trust in Criminal Justice)
The 21st century is the time of polycrisis, characterised by its temporal and spatial boundaries and cascading effects (Covid-19 pandemics, climate change, the war in Ukraine, mass migration caused by the war in Ukraine and other armed conflicts). Moreover, European societies are almost universally in crisis mode, which is linked to an accelerating process of…
Jeremy Wilson, Erin Dalton, Charles Scheer and Clifford Grammich: Improving Police Recruitment and Retention
Local police agencies face a threefold challenge in recruitment and retention: attrition resulting from budget crises and retirements, greater skill requirements and shifting generational preferences restricting the flow of applicants, and an expanding scope of duties requiring more officers with a greater breadth of skills. Although it has several gaps, existing research can help local…
UN High Commissioner Expresses Concerns Over Police Brutality During Madagascar Protests
Police in Madagascar have fired tear gas as hundreds of young protesters returned to the streets of the capital, despite the president agreeing to dissolve his government. The so-called Gen-Z protests have seen thousands demonstrate in cities across Madagascar since Thursday, demanding an end to repeated water and power cuts. President Andry Rajoelina sacked his…
Yanina Hrabova: Criminal Offenses Related to the Misuse Of Humanitarian Aid (Ukrainian Context)
Any crisis, particularly armed conflict, is inevitably accompanied by rising levels of poverty and increased societal demand for both material and financial humanitarian assistance. Following the full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukraine became a hub for the operational activity of various humanitarian organizations – both international and domestic. The unprecedented volume of aid flowing into the…
ProtectEU: a European Internal Security Strategy
Security is the bedrock upon which all our freedoms are built. Democracy, the rule of law, fundamental rights, the wellbeing of Europeans, competitiveness and prosperity – all hinge on our ability to provide a basic security guarantee. In the new era of security threats that we now live in, EU Member States’ ability to guarantee…
Dmytro Yagunov: How to Return Trust to the Police in Postwar Ukraine
During the war, the Government had the priority to combat against Russian occupiers, where a traditional peace-time issue of human rights approach has been replaced with humanitarian law. There are grounds to believe that Ukraine will have a generation of police officers grown up on the long distance from procedural justice and human rights. We can also presume…
Lawmakers in the Brazilian State of Rio De Janeiro Approved Bonuses for Police Officers Who Kill “Criminals”
Lawmakers in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro have approved a bonus for police officers who kill “criminals,” a move that sparked outrage among rights defenders who fear a “massacre”. A similar measure, nicknamed the “Wild West Bonus”, was in effect from 1995 to 1998 when it was scrapped due to a sharp rise…