Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Organized crime and terrorist networks; 3. Hybrids: on the crime-terror nexus; 4. The online crime-terror nexus: using booter services (stressers) to weaponize data?; 5. The role of information and communication technology (ICT) in modern criminal organizations; 6. The rise of low-tech attacks in Europe; 7. Global system dynamics in the relationships between organized crime and terrorist groups; 8. Understanding the crime-terrorism nexus through a dynamic modelling approach; 9. Terrorism financing and the crime-terror relationships as challenges for security in Europe; 10. Tackling the nexus at the supranational level; 11. Identity crime in the UK

About the Author

Vincenzo Ruggiero is Professor of Sociology at Middlesex University in London. He has conducted research for many national and international agencies, including the European Commission and the United Nations. Since 2010 he has published the following single-authored books: Penal Abolitionism (2010), The Crimes of the Economy (2013), Power and Crime (2015), Dirty Money (2017) and Visions of Political Violence (2019). In 2016 he was given the Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Society of Criminology for his contribution to Critical Criminology.