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The incantations of the EU organised crime policy making
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Abstract This article provides an analysis of the knowledge base of organised crime assessments and policy making in the European Union. It is argued that the current European organised crime (threat) assessments are no reliable and relevant instruments to make meaningful statements about organised crime. Th... mehr
This article provides an analysis of the knowledge base of organised crime assessments and policy making in the European Union. It is argued that the current European organised crime (threat) assessments are no reliable and relevant instruments to make meaningful statements about organised crime. The data collection system of the current assessments is defective and to a large extent dependant on what Member States decide to disclose and not based on clear developed concepts, definitions and methods. There is no discernable "counting unit" as a basis for deducing threats or risks. More fundamental: the definition or criteria list used is defective, providing no basis for further deductions or conclusions. The conclusions of the open versions of the European reports are of a very general nature, not substantially different from what can be found in open sources. Though European decision making claims to be founded on these assessments, it looks more like a ritual incantation than a knowledge based process.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Kriminalität; internationaler Vergleich; Berichterstattung; organisierte Kriminalität; Kriminalpolitik; EU
Klassifikation
Kriminalsoziologie, Rechtssoziologie, Kriminologie
Europapolitik
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2009
Seitenangabe
S. 261-281
Zeitschriftentitel
Crime, Law and Social Change, 51 (2009) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-008-9153-1
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)