The Department of Sociology & the Extra-Legal Governance Institute
Seminar
Understanding and Responding to Organized Crime
20 February 2015, 13.00-17.45 pm,
Manor Road Building, Seminar Room A
Session 1: 13.00-14.30: Understanding Organized Crime: what it is and what it does
Chair: Professor Julian Roberts, University of Oxford
Speakers:
Professor Federico Varese (University of Oxford): Defining Organized Crime
Professor Edward Kleemans (VU University Amsterdam): Organized Crime, Transit Crime, and Racketeering
Discussant: Professor Peter Reuter (University of Maryland)
Session 2: 14:30-16.00: Responding to Organized Crime: Confiscation of Illegal Assets
Chair: Dr. Paolo Campana, University of Cambridge
Speakers:
Dr Antonio Balsamo (Caltanisetta Tribunal): Asset confiscation in Comparative Perspective
Dr Emanuela Pugliese (Direzione nazionale Antimafia) A new tool to go after criminal assets
Professor Carmelo Provenzano (University of Enna): What happens to firms after their assets have been confiscated?
Discussant: Johan Boucht (University of Oslo)
Coffee Break 16.00-16.15 pm
Session 3: 16.15-17.45: Comparative perspectives in the fight against organized crimes
Chair: Federico Varese (Oxford University)
Professor Ivan Kleimenov (Department of the Constitutional foundations of Criminal Justice, Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation): Economic crime in Russia: Current Developments and the fight against it
Dr Rebecca Wong (City University of Hong Kong): The fight against trafficking in Hong Kong and China
Discussant: Edward Kleemans (VU University Amsterdam)