Organised crime and vulnerability of economic sectors. The european transport and music sector IRCP

Description

The influence of organised crime on business activities, enterprises and economic sectors is a matter of concern for many policy makers across the world. As a profit driven criminal activity, organised crime operates in an environment which is not limited to the underworld economy alone. Assessments of the threat posed by organised crime and strategic preventive actions to tackle this phenomenon require an understanding of the vulnerable spots in the legal economy that are or might be exploited by crime.This book is the outcome of a study known under the acronym MAVUS Method for and Assessment of Vulnerability of Sectors which addresses this issue. The study, financed under the 2003 AGIS programme of the European Commission, proposes a new methodology to scan economic sectors on their vulnerability to organised crime and provides vulnerability profiles of the transport and the music sector in Europe to which the method has been tested in a case-study.The developed methodological tool and the vulnerability profiles of both sectors are intended as a guide for actions and initiatives to be taken by governments, law enforcement bodies or economic sectors.