A book of conversations that confront our preoccupation with personal happiness and success, in favor of concern for others. A 1-minute video on the new book. 
Audiobook version available at Audible.com and Amazon.com

Co-organizer:“The 24-Hour Conference on Global Organized Crime,” Co-sponsored by four professional international organizations in the field of organized crime. Involved planning, solicitations, organizing panels, and overseeing the meeting. The conference began in 2020 during the pandemic, The fourth edition of the conference occurred in 2023 with more than 300 speakers from 40 countries on six continents in 68 total panel sessions and 3,000 attendees. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6986679540668362753/
https://oc24.heysummit.com/replays/

 "Why Experience SHERLOC?" A short video written and edited for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime for their new SHERLOC knowledge management portal as a global research and teaching tool on organized crime. Posted at https://twitter.com/i/status/1248227806389178368

2018 and 2019
Video: “Are We Facing an Ethics Crisis?” the introductory video for a new course developed by the United Nations by a global team of experts from 30 countries. Dr. Albanese appears in the video, and is working with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in its effort to develop a global curriculum on Integrity & Ethics under the “Education 4 Justice” initiative.  The content is available for open access use by instructors and students around the world, translated into all six UN languages. Athens, Greece.

Video link: https://www.facebook.com/unodc/videos/10154677394962331/
https://twitter.com/UNODC/status/912961520119803905 

See 2-minute video about the book here
The book recounts conversations between a professor and his students about 12 the greatest questions, reflecting some of the most important ideas of human existence: truth, good & evil, justice, liberty, equality, law,  punishment, friendship, honor, and happiness.  For example, if we all are looking to be happy, then why are we so miserable?
Audiobook version available at Audible.com and Amazon.com

June, 2017
Presentation:"24 Hours of Organized Crime in Your Life.” United Nations General Assembly (UNGA Session on Transnational Organized Crime Side Event). United Nations Headquarters. New York. June, 2017. http://webtv.un.org/watch/24-hours-of-your-life-affected-by-organized-crime-how-to-protect-you-and-your-loved-ones/5477716098001 (20 minutes at 36:00 - 55:00)



September, 2017
https://twitter.com/UNODC/status/912961520119803905

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime - Under the Doha Declaration Global Programme, UNODC is developing a series of modules to help better teach on mandated issues in universities. Part of the Education for Justice (E4J) initiative, this covers topics such as transnational organized crime among many others. To find out more, we spoke with Prof. Jay Albanese from the Wilder School of Virginia Commonwealth University about the role of education in crime prevention.
https://www.facebook.com/unodc/videos/10154677394962331/

There have been numerous documented cases in which providers of illegal sports betting, black market machines, Internet sweepstakes cafés and illegal online betting have cheated customers on payouts and cheated the United States government by not paying taxes on profits. Furthermore, these profits have been found to support organized crime activity, such as money laundering and loan-sharking. In this way, illegal gambling operations support organized crime and victimize others, rather than benefit patrons. http://vegasseven.com/2015/08/12/nations-illegal-gambling-problem-means-las-vegas/
Article: "Illegal Gambling & Organized Crime: An Analysis of Federal Convictions." Trends in Organized Crime, vol. DOI 10.1007/s12117-017-9302-y (2018).

June, 2018
Presentation at meeting organized by the United Nation Office on Drugs and Crime on the "Connections between Organized Crime and Cybercrime." Chuncehon, South Korea.

September, 2015
Presentation at the Mob Museum (The National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement) in Las Vegas on the contemporary history of organized crime, followed by a panel discussion with 2 other participants from the FBI and U.S. Treasury Department on "Fighting Organized Crime in the 21st Century: A Courtroom Conversation."
The program addressed the history of the mafia in the United States and how it, and other organized crime groups, have changed in the 21st century. Topics included Russian and Asian computer hackers break into U.S. government systems, Mexican drug cartels, and global trafficking in human beings, and a host of illicit goods, services, and frauds.  A question-and-answer session with the live audience followed.  
The 90-minute program is available http://themobmuseum.org/events-posts/september-23-fighting-organized-crime-in-the-21st-century-a-courtroom-conversation/

April, 2015
The UN Crime Congress occurs once every five years. It was held in Doha, Qatar in 2015. The Congress includes State and NGO representatives from all 193 countries of the UN.  The Congress provides a platform for increased cooperation between governments, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations on the whole spectrum of crime prevention and criminal justice issues, thus promoting more effective international action in this field.  Jay Albanese made a presentation on assessing the risk of emerging transnational crimes.

July, 2014
"The Elusive Link between Casinos and Crime" in The Pacific Standard: The Science of Society (July 29, 2014). "One of the first and most widely cited studies on the issue was by Jay Albanese, a criminologist. He looked at the crime data in Atlantic City to try to see how casinos there had changed the area’s rates of murder, rape, robbery,.."  http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/elusive-link-casinos-crime-86902/

June, 2014
Jay S. Albanese, editor-in-chief, Encyclopedia of Criminology & Criminal Justice  (Wiley, 2014). Five volumes, 540 entries, 2,653 pages. “Anyone among us who can advance effective strategies for persuading this generation of students that there is still much of value to be gained from engaging with encyclopedias such as this one would be making a highly commendable contribution to our field.”  (American Reference Books Annual, 1 June 2014)

 www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470670282.html

June, 2014
"The odds of becoming a victim of a serious crime in central Virginia continued to drop last year, advancing a clear trend that shows the region's overall crime rate has fallen 26 percent over the past seven years, even as the population has grown by 9 percent.".  "Major Crime Tumbles in Area," Richmond Times Dispatch.  http://www.timesdispatch.com/major-crime-tumbles-in-area/article_3a7f5650-b07c-5b9b-9705-c92c0b3bd339.html

August, 2013
Op-ed article on the drug wars at the U.S.-Mexican border. The OUPblog is the official academic blog of Oxford University Press with more than 10,000 subscribers and 53,000 visitors per month.  http://blog.oup.com/2013/08/cross-border-law-enforcement-us-mexico-border/

July, 2013
Interviewed for article about the the Witness Protection Program in context of the Whitey Bulger trial.  Reprinted in the Houston Chronicle and Seattle Post Intelligencer. http://www.businessinsider.com/american-still-needs-witness-protection-2013-7

June, 2013
An audio clip from NPR's program "How to Do Everything" for tampering with the jury in mob cases.  Episode 110 (the second story) http://howtodoeverything.org/

January, 2011
Interviewed on the Kerri Miller Show (NPR Minneapolis) on the subject of major organized crime indictments and their impacts. NPR Historic Mafia Arrests


July, 2011
The U.S. supreme Court's conclusion that gratuitously violent video games are “protected speech,” while depictions of sex are obscene, missed an important opportunity...
Richmond Times-Dispatch OpEd

January, 2011
An interview with the Irish Independent newspaper. "‘Why does it cost $2m to build a $1m building in New York?’” said Albanese.  The Irish Independent

April 27, 2010
Organized crime has been a part of American culture for more than a century...
The Penn