Organized, White-Collar and Transnational Crime Scholarship

Researchers who study crime organized as an ongoing enterprise, whether the traditional organized crime of mafia-type groups, financial and corporate white-collar crime committed by otherwise respectable offenders in their professional roles, or transnational crime that crosses national borders, including drug trafficking, human trafficking and the illicit trade in cultural property. This group gathers the researchers who supplied criminology's foundational typologies of organized crime and white-collar offending, researchers studying the structure and economics of mafia-type organizations and illicit markets, and researchers studying trafficking, cybercrime and transnational financial crime as it crosses borders and jurisdictions. It excludes researchers whose primary lens on these same offenses is a general theoretical school such as strain or critical criminology, who belong under that school's own group instead, and this group is placed here as the destination for a member whose own work is organized around this specific crime type rather than around a general theory.