European organised crime scenarios for 2015 IRCP series, 26

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Over het boekPolicy makers no longer focus on repressive aspects of organised crime alone, but want to be informed about coming challenges and threats to allow them to take appropriate preventive action and target their reactive response better. For that reason, there is a growing demand to change the traditional assessments into analyses that include more prospective elements about current and potential future organised crime situations to identify specific risks or threats to society.This book is the outcome of the study co-financed under the 2006 Agis programme of the European Commission known under the acronym OCO Organised Crime Outlook. The book outlines a methodology to perform analyses of long-term threats of organised crime and scenario studies and applies this on four case studies at two different levels three studies at Member State level Belgium, Slovenia, and Sweden and one at the European Union level. ln a last chapter, conclusions and recommendations about the method and its applications are presented. The developed methodological tool and the scenarios are intended as a guide for action and consideration for all actors involved in the fight against organised crime.