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Measuring Organised Crime: Complexities of the Quantitative and Factorial Analysis

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Using Open Data to Detect Organized Crime Threats

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While it is true that organised criminal phenomenon brings new challenges academics and professionals, it is not least also creates new opportunities for the development of scientific knowledge. The need to address an increasingly more sophisticated form of organised crime should stimulate a strong commitment to specialisation of research instruments and transmission of acquired knowledge. Specialisation, in turn, demands necessarily overcoming the insufficient methodological and didactic classics paradigms, opting for innovative and integrated responses necessarily cross (holistic), applied to the analysis and teaching of organised crime. The methodological and didactic challenges on measuring organised crime are many and varied, and ultimately, criminologists must accept the challenge and give a full answer. In summary, this chapter focuses on the measurement of organised crime and the need for a quantitative approach; it further proposes and discusses a methodological approach to quantitative data and development of trustworthy indicators .

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    Exceptionally, some researchers choose to employ these techniques, such as Dr. Wolfgang Herbert, who is one of the most eminent sociologists and experts in Japan of Austria, when he decided to infiltrate in the organised crime sphere of Osaka (Japan) to document his doctoral studies about japanese organised crime. Retrieved from Glenny M. (2008). Mc Mafia. El crimen sin fronteras. Barcelona: Destino Imago Mundi, p. 411.

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Pascual, D.SR. (2017). Measuring Organised Crime: Complexities of the Quantitative and Factorial Analysis. In: Larsen, H., Blanco, J., Pastor Pastor, R., Yager, R. (eds) Using Open Data to Detect Organized Crime Threats. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52703-1_2

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