Crossing Borders: Organised Crime in the Netherlands

In the Netherlands the problem of organised crime was largely ignored until the early 1990s, despite the fact that in the previous two decades the nature of serious crime had substantially changed due to the emergence of the drug trade. It took quite a long time, however, before practitioners and policy makers became fully aware of this gradual transformation of the problem of serious crime caused by the huge quantities of drugs being bought and sold through the Netherlands.