Is drawing from the state ‘state of the art’?: a review of organised crime research data collection and analysis, 2004–2018

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dc.contributor.authorWindle, James
dc.contributor.authorSilke, Andrew
dc.date.accessioned2019-01-23T16:51:28Z
dc.date.available2019-01-23T16:51:28Z
dc.date.issued2019-01-08
dc.description.abstractThis paper presents a systematic review of organised crime data collection and analysis methods. It did this by reviewing all papers published in Trends in Organized Crime and Global Crime between 2004 and 2018 (N = 463). The review identified a number of key weaknesses. First, organised crime research is dominated by secondary data analysis of open-access documents, and documents are seldom subjected to the same principles guiding primary data collection methods. Second, data analysis lacked balance with a distinct lack of inferential statistical analysis. Third, there was a significant absence of victim or offender voices with an overreliance on data from state bodies and the media. The paper concludes that organised crime, as field of research, appears unbalanced by reliance upon a small number of methods and sources. Rebalancing the field requires more organised crime researchers to speak to offenders and victims, employ greater use of statistical analysis and tighten our methodologies.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationWindle J, Silke A. (2019) Is drawing from the state ‘state of the art’?: a review of organised crime research data collection and analysis, 2004–2018. Trends in Organized Crime, Volume 22, Issue 4, 2019, pp. 394-413en_UK
dc.identifier.issn1084-4791
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-018-9356-5
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/13847
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherSpringeren_UK
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/*
dc.subjectOrganised crimeen_UK
dc.subjectResearch methodsen_UK
dc.subjectData analysisen_UK
dc.subjectData collectionen_UK
dc.subjectInterviewsen_UK
dc.subjectEthnographyen_UK
dc.subjectVictimsen_UK
dc.titleIs drawing from the state ‘state of the art’?: a review of organised crime research data collection and analysis, 2004–2018en_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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