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27.1. The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. A Geneva-based NGO publishing regular policy reports offering solutions to combat TOC.
27.2. Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). This is an opensource dataset which allows students to map and visualize political and criminal violence. ACLED gathers data from open sources around the world and updates the dataset regularly keeping most data as fresh as the last two weeks. It also has curated datasets, such as a COVID-19 disorder tracker, which maps COVID-related events such as protests. Students can rapidly learn to visualize this data for free in Tableau Public. Free tutorials are available on Youtube.com.
27.3. Klaus von Lampe Organized Crime Research. Although the geographical focus of this website is the USA and Germany, its social-science perspective and collection of organized crime definitions, papers, book reviews, and web links makes it an essential resource.
27.4. National Institute of Justice, US Department of Justice. This website provides a comprehensive collection of official reports and commissioned research publications that provide an overview of the US perspective on organized crime.
27.5. Transnational Crime and Corruption Center, George Mason University. This centre brings together a large collection of academic and policy research on transnational crime (with a focus on Russia and former Soviet states), as well as providing a comprehensive set of links to other online resources on this subject.
27.6. United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The UNODC is one of the leading international agencies focused on assisting states in developing international efforts to fight drug trafficking, terrorism, and organized crime.