Anita Lavorgna

TL;DR: In this paper, a crime script approach is used to understand what kind of criminal opportunities the Internet offers for conducting wildlife trafficking and how these opportunities affect the organization of this transit crime, as concerns both the carrying out of the criminal activity and the patterns of relations in and among criminal networks.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated how the Internet is used to facilitate the trade in counterfeit pharmaceuticals, based on interviews and investigative cases analysed through a crime script, pinpoints the criminal opportunities made available by the specificities of the Internet, identifies what specific phases of the trafficking activity they facilitate, investigates how such opportunities are exploited, and provides updated insights into how actors involved in the online market in counterfeit drugs behave.

TL;DR: Whether and to what extent these criminal networks meet the definitions of organised crime are met and the theoretical and policing implications of the findings are discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an empirically based description of how the Internet is exploited by different types of organized crime groups (OCGs), ranging from Italian mafia-style groups to looser gangs.

TL;DR: In this article, a review examines how "plant blindness" manifests within policy and research on illegal wildlife trade, with serious and detrimental effects for biodiversity conservation, concluding that plants have been largely ignored within this emerging conservation arena.