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Organised criminal groups and networks

Organised crime in Australia has been estimated to cost at least $10 billion and is responsible for much of the nation’s serious crime. The most successful groups operate across many sectors and crime types but are typically involved in some form of financial crime or money laundering. They will also have some connection with the illicit drugs market and may be involved in crimes such as people or firearms trafficking, fraud or high tech crime. In 2010 the AIC co-hosted an international conference on the fight against serious and organised crime. The proceedings of this conference together with the AIC’s latest research, and papers from Australian and international crime experts are available on this website.

• Integrating data sources and network analysis tools to support the fight against organized crime
  Luigi Ferrara ... [et al.], Intelligence and Security Informatics. 2008
• Organised property crime markets in Queensland : a strategic assessment
  Crime and Misconduct Commission, Crime and Misconduct Commission. 2009
• Palermo on the Pacific rim : organised crime offences in the Asia Pacific region
  Andreas Schloenhardt, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. 2009
• Extending our reach : a comprehensive approach to tackling serious organised crime
  Home Office, Home Office. 2009
• Inquiry into the legislative arrangements to outlaw serious and organised crime groups
  Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australian Crime Commission, Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. 2009
• Report of the Australian parliamentary delegation to Canada, the United States, Italy, Austria, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands (12 April-3 May 2009)
  Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Australian Crime Commission, Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia. 2009
• Film piracy, organized crime, and terrorism
  Gregeory F Treverton ... [et al.], RAND Corporation. 2009
• Organised crime in Australia : 2009
  Australian Crime Commission, Australian Crime Commission. 2009
• Assessing transnational organized crime groups : dagnerousness and trends
  United Nations Global Programme on Transnational Organized Crime
• International cooperation against terrorism and links between terrorism and other criminal activities in the context of the work of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (PDF 190kB)
  Eleventh United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, 2005
• Criminal groups and transnational illegal markets (PDF 97kB)
  Gerben Bruinsma and Wim Bernasco, 2004
• Criminal networks (PDF 336kB)
  Vincent Lemieux, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 2003
• Characteristics of Chinese human smugglers : a cross-national study (PDF 1.53MB)
  Sheldon Zhang, Ko-lin Chin, Department of Justice (US), 2003
• Results of an analysis of 40 organized criminal groups (PDF 3.41MB)
  United Nations Global Programme Against Transnational Organized Crime, 2002
• Structures, strategies and tactics of transnational criminal organisations : critical issues for enforcement
  Margaret Beare, 2000
• Assessing transnational organized crime groups : dangerousness and trends (PDF 113kB)
  United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, 1999
• Asian organised crime in Australia, discussion paper
  Parliamentary Joint Committee on the National Crime Authority, 1995
• Criminal networks, criminal enterprises (PDF 80kB)
  John Evans, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy, 1994

Recent publications

• Organised crime and trafficking in persons
  24 March 2012
• Anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing across the globe: A comparative study of regulatory action
  10 February 2012
• Australia’s Pacific Seasonal Worker Pilot Scheme: Managing vulnerabilities to exploitation
  22 November 2011
• Vulnerabilities to trafficking in persons in the Pacific Islands
  22 November 2011
• Misuse of the non-profit sector for money laundering and terrorism financing
  16 September 2011
• Crime families: Gender and the intergenerational transfer of criminal tendencies
  09 May 2011
• $name
  01 January 0001
• The trafficking of children in the Asia–Pacific
  19 April 2011
• Measuring the effectiveness of drug law enforcement
  04 February 2011
• Migration and people trafficking in southeast Asia
  12 November 2010
• Labour trafficking
  09 November 2010
• Cloud computing: Challenges and future directions
  18 October 2010
• The illegal movement of cash and bearer negotiable instruments: Typologies and regulatory responses
  18 October 2010
• Financing of terrorism: Risks for Australia
  17 May 2010
• Money laundering and terrorism financing risks posed by alternative remittance in Australia
  23 April 2010

Recent events

• 10 Myths about Terrorist Financing
  21 September 2011
• Transnational crime and public-private sector interventions
  02 February 2011
• International Serious and Organised Crime Conference 2010
  18 October 2010
• Responding to human security threats in East Asia and the Pacific
  17 August 2010
• Pacific trafficking in persons forum
  02 September 2009