Fiona M Underwood

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Using seizures data to describe the scope and scale of transnational organized crime

A few years ago I wrote a brief for the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) for their ENACT (Enhancing Africa’s capacity to respond more effectively to transnational organised crime) programme. The brief was about using seizures data to understand the scope and scale of transnational organized crime (TOC). ENACT were interested in whether […]

Filed Under: Global indicators, Illegal wildlife trade, Seizures data Tagged With: bias adjustment, global indicators, seizures data, wildlife trade

Measuring transnational organized crime

Background Under the EU funded project, ENACT (Enhancing Africa’s capacity to respond more effectively to transnational organized crime), the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime, the Institute for Security Studies and Interpol are developing an Index to provide a multi-dimensional measure of the scale and scope of organized crime in Africa. Project ENACT commissioned a […]

A complex statistical methodology becomes more routine….

I recently completed an analysis for TRAFFIC International to describe trends in the illegal ivory trade from 1996 – 2014. These results are being presented this week at the CITES Standing Committee as part of the document on “Elephant conservation, illegal killing and ivory trade” (in particular see  Figures 5-9). Clearly, it is the results that are […]

Filed Under: Bayesian, Bias adjustment, Complexity, Global indicators, Illegal ivory trade, Seizures data

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