Tackling organised crime: assessing the impact of the economic crisis [WPS09/05]

This conference discussed the following points:

• Will an economic downturn cause an upsurge in organised crime?
• What are the emerging trends and how to get ahead of the criminals?
• Where are the specific vulnerabilities and do these differ between North America and Europe?
• Is there a risk of parallel criminal economies emerging?
• In what ways can cross-border co-operation on intelligence gathering, investigations and prosecutions be enhanced?
• How are criminal gangs organised?
• Are there cross-cutting links between different modalities of crime and their detection?
• What is the role of the Internet in the perpetration of crime and as a tool of detection?
• How far can European countries limit the spread of organised crime against a backdrop of the global economic crisis?