Crime & Criminal Justice

Firefighters from Mexico and Honduras cut and move branches in the Fremont National Forest while prepping the fire line ahead of the Brattain Fire in the outskirts of Paisley, Oregon, U.S., September 17, 2020. REUTERS/Adrees Latif

Order from Chaos

Global warming, fires, and crime in Mexico and beyond

Vanda Felbab-Brown and Elisa Norio

Monday, September 28, 2020

Past Policy 2020 Event

Maras, migrants, and Mexico: Policy issues for the next US administration

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM EDT

Website of The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network or FinCEN, a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Up Front

What the FinCEN leaks reveal about the ongoing war on dirty money

Friday, September 25, 2020

A picture of Breonna Taylor is seen at a makeshift memorial for victims of racial injustice, following the announcement of a single indictment in Taylor's case, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, New York, U.S., September 24, 2020. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

How We Rise

Breonna Taylor, police brutality, and the importance of #SayHerName

Melissa Brown and Rashawn Ray

Friday, September 25, 2020

Reports

People cross the Colombian-Venezuelan border over the partially opened Simon Bolivar international bridge in San Antonio del Tachira, Venezuela June 8, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Eduardo Ramirez

Report

Venezuelan migration, crime, and misperceptions: A review of data from Colombia, Peru, and Chile

Dany Bahar, Meagan Dooley, and Andrew Selee

Monday, September 14, 2020

Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang members wait to be escorted upon their arrival at the maximum-security jail in Zacatecoluca, El Salvador, June 22, 2017. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas

Crime & Criminal Justice

Bargaining with the devil to avoid hell? Negotiations with criminal groups in Latin America and the Caribbean

Vanda Felbab-Brown

July 2020

Poppy field

Report

Fending off fentanyl and hunting down heroin: Controlling opioid supply from Mexico

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Packets of fentanyl mostly in powder form and methamphetamine, which U.S. Customs and Border Protection say they seized from a truck crossing into Arizona from Mexico, is on display during a news conference at the Port of Nogales, Arizona, U.S., January 31, 2019. Courtesy U.S. Customs and Border Protection/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Report

Fentanyl and geopolitics: Controlling opioid supply from China

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Activists stage a protest on a mock tropical island beach representing a tax haven outside a meeting of European Union finance ministers in Brussels, Belgium, December 5, 2017. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

Report

Does the threat of being blacklisted change behavior?

Thursday, June 25, 2020

Blog Posts

Protesters walk onto Morrison Bridge while rallying against the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, in Portland, Oregon, U.S. June 3, 2020. Picture taken with a drone. REUTERS/Terray Sylvester

TechStream

How to regulate police use of drones

Faine Greenwood

Thursday, September 24, 2020

A Mexican Navy vessel chases masked men on skiffs fishing illegally inside the Vaquita Refuge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site located in Mexico’s Upper Gulf of California, off San Felipe, Baja California, Mexico March 3, 2020 in this picture released by the Sea Shepherd. Sea Shepherd/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT SEA SHEPHERD.

Order from Chaos

Illegal fishing in Mexico and policy responses

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Monday, September 14, 2020

Jail cells are seen in the Enhanced Supervision Housing Unit at the Rikers Island Correctional facility in New York March 12, 2015. New York City is proposing to reduce violence among inmates at its troubled Rikers Island jail by limiting visitors, adding security cameras and separating rival gangs, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Thursday. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

FixGov

Did the 1994 crime bill cause mass incarceration?

Rashawn Ray and William A. Galston

Friday, August 28, 2020

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Events

The opioid crisis in America: Vulnerable groups, law enforcement, and international supply

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM EDT

Webinar: The opioid crisis in America – Prevention, treatment, and regulation

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM EDT

Webinar: How we rise — Policy solutions to upend structural racism and inequality

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

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Related Books

"Organized Crime and Illicit Trade: How to Respond to This Strategic Challenge in Old and New Domains" edited by Virginia Comolli

Organized crime and illicit trade: How to respond to this strategic challenge in old and new domains

Contributions by Vanda Felbab-Brown

2018

"The Extinction Market" by Vanda Felbab-Brown

The Extinction Market: Wildlife Trafficking and How to Counter It

By Vanda Felbab-Brown

2017

Corruption

By Carlo Alberto Brioschi

2017

Experts

Howard Henderson

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Governance Studies

Rashawn Ray

David M. Rubenstein Fellow - Governance Studies

@SociologistRay

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Co-Director - Africa Security Initiative

Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Security, Strategy, and Technology

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Multimedia

Plastic bags of Fentanyl are displayed on a table at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection area at the International Mail Facility at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. November 29, 2017. Picture taken November 29, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Lott

Podcast Episode

Opioids in America

Vanda Felbab-Brown, Carol Graham, Keith Humphreys, Bryce Pardo, Bradley D. Stein, Paul H. Wise, and Fred Dews

Friday, July 10, 2020

--FILE--A Chinese mobile phone user shows the icons of App Store app, left, and messaging app Weixin, or WeChat, of Tencent on his iPhone smartphone in Ji'nan city, east China's Shandong province, 27 June 2017.Apple China said it will not take the blame for developers who charge differently on the iOS app and Android versions for the same product or service. Netizens have found they need to pay more on iOS than Android in using the same ride-sharing or video subscription services. Some Internet companies have reportedly adopted differential pricing plans through the use of Big Data based on a customer's buying behavior or interest, so a new customer may pay less than an old customer for the same product or service.No Use China. No Use France.

Podcast Episode

How digital privacy law asymmetries can hurt criminal defendants

John Villasenor and Rebecca Wexler

Friday, June 5, 2020

Sap oozes from poppies after they are scratched, a process to get opium from poppies, in a village outside Balkh province, about 500 km (310 miles) north of Kabul May 6, 2006. The illegal narcotics trade dominates Afghanistan's economy, accounting for 60 percent of its gross domestic product and 87 percent of the world's supply. Heroin and morphine are derived from opium, which comes from poppies. REUTERS/Ahmad Masood

Drug Trafficking & Counter-Narcotics Policy

Heroin’s journey during COVID

Vanda Felbab-Brown, Jack Meegan-Vickers, Tariq M. Khosa, Ben Crabtree, Jason Eligh, and Simone Haysom

The Impact

Friday, May 22, 2020

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