Call for Abstracts

Second ‘Illicit Networks’ Workshop

6 – 7 December 2010

University of Wollongong, NSW Australia

The Centre for Transnational Crime Prevention (University of Wollongong Australia) in conjunction with the Équipe de Recherche sur la Délinquance en Réseau (University of Montreal, Canada) is hosting the second annual Illicit Networks Workshop in December 2010.

Keynote papers will be presented by a number of esteemed international and domestic academics, including  Professor Carlo Morselli (University of Montreal) Contacts Opportunities and Criminal Enterprise (2005); Inside Criminal Networks (2008), Professor Leslie Holmes (University of Melbourne) Terrorism, Organised Crime and Corruption: Networks and Linkages (2007); Rotten States?: Corruption, Post-Communism, and Neoliberalism (2006), Professor Phil Williams (University of Pittsburgh) Criminal Militias and Insurgents: Organized Crime in Iraq (2009); ‘Transnational Criminal Networks’, in Networks and Netwars (2001), Dr Lindsay Clutterbuck (Research leader RAND Europe) former detective officer in the specialist operations department at New Scotland Yard, and Professor Andrew Goldsmith (University of Wollongong) ‘Policing’s New Visibility’ in British Journal of Criminology (2010); Crafting Transnational Policing: Police Capacity-Building and Global Policing Reform (2007).

The workshop aims to explore illicit networks adopting a multi-disciplinary perspective. It thus will draw on participant expertise in diverse areas such as criminology, political science, social network analysis, social psychology and sociology. The event will be open to interested parties from academia and government.

Themes for the 2010 workshop include:

• Social network analysis – theoretical developments

• Methodological issues

• Case studies of criminal networks

• Case studies of terrorist networks

• Network evolution and new technologies

• Comparing terrorist and criminal networks

• Network analysis and intelligence-led policing

• Limits of network analysis for criminal intelligence and law enforcement purposes

Please direct any questions to Dr. Georgia Lysaght – georgial@uow.edu.au