Below are highlights from work conducted in the area of organized crime and corruption, including both domestic and transnational descriptions, explanations, risk assessment, and prediction.

Article: “Controlling Organized Crime: Looking for Evidence-Based Approaches,” Victims & Offenders: Journal of Evidence Based Policies and Practices, vol. 4 (2009).

Article: “Family Fortunes---The Cosa Nostra in the U.S.: Identifying Short-term and Long-term Prospects,”
Jane’s Intelligence Review, vol. 20 (November, 2008).

Book: Organized Crime in Our Times, 5^th edition (Lexis/Nexis, 2007).

Brief Monograph: Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children: What Do We Know and What Do We Do About It?(National Institute of Justice, 2007).

Article: “Risk Assessment in Organized Crime: Developing a Market and Product-based Model to Determine Threat Levels,” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, vol. 24 (August, 2008).

Article: “The Prediction and Control of Organized Crime: A Risk Assessment Instrument for Targeting Law Enforcement Efforts,” Trends in Organized Crime, vol. 6 (2001).  Reprinted: in J. Finckenauer and J. Schrock, eds.  The Prediction and Control of Organized Crime: The Experience of Post-Soviet Ukraine (Transaction Publishers, 2004.)

Article: “The Causes of Organized Crime: Do Criminals Organize Around Opportunities for Crime or Do Criminal Opportunities Create New Offenders?” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 16 (November, 2000).

Article: "North American Organised Crime," Global Crime, vol. 6 (February 2004).  Reprinted: M. Galeotti, ed. Global Crime Today (Routledge, 2005).

Chapter: "Where Organized and White Collar Crime Meet: Predicting the Infiltration of Legitimate Business." in J. Albanese, ed. Contemporary Issues in Organized Crime.  (Willow Tree Press, 1995).

Chapter: “Looking for a New Approach to an Old Problem: The Future of Obscenity and Pornography,” in R. Muraskin and A. Roberts, eds.  Visions for Change: Crime and Justice in the Twenty-First Century, 5^th ed.  (Prentice Hall, 2009).

Article: "What Lockheed and La Cosa Nostra Have in Common: The Effect of Ideology on Criminal Justice Policy."  Crime & Delinquency, 28 [April, 1982].  (Reprinted in J.F. Sheley, ed.  Exploring Crime: Readings in Criminology and Criminal Justice.  Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1987.)  (Reprinted in N. Passas, ed.  International Library of Criminology and Criminal Justice.  Hampshire, England: Dartmouth Publishing, 1994.)

Presentation: “A Networked Enterprise Perspective for Addressing the Risk of Organized Crime.”  Presentation at the International Seminar Organized Crime and Democracy: Conceptual, Methodological and historical comparative questions.  Sao Paulo, Brazil.  November, 2007.

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