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Universiteitstraat 4, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium T +32 (0) , F +32 (0) Prof. Dr. T. Vander Beken – Assessing organised crime – Bramshill, 26 February Assessing organised crime: threat, anticipation and future Prof. Dr. Tom Vander Beken UK Foreign Office Chevening Course “Tackling International Organised Crime” Centrex Bramshill, 26 February 2007

Universiteitstraat 4, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium T +32 (0) , F +32 (0) Prof. Dr. T. Vander Beken – Assessing organised crime – Bramshill, 26 February Intro “Since the plotters were flexible and resourceful, we cannot know whether any single step or series of steps would have defeated them. What we can say with confidence is that none of the measures adopted by the U.S. government from 1998 to 2001 disturbed or even delayed the progress of the al Qaeda plot. Across the government there were failures of imagination, policy, capabilities, and management. The most important failure was one of imagination. We do not believe leaders understood the gravity of the threat.” (National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, 2004: 9)

Universiteitstraat 4, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium T +32 (0) , F +32 (0) Prof. Dr. T. Vander Beken – Assessing organised crime – Bramshill, 26 February Overview 1. Criminal analysis and organised crime policy 2. Risk, threat, harm and vulnerability 3. Tools for assessing organised crime 4. Future and (organized) crime assessments 5. Conclusions

Universiteitstraat 4, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium T +32 (0) , F +32 (0) Prof. Dr. T. Vander Beken – Assessing organised crime – Bramshill, 26 February Criminal analysis and organised crime policy a. Why analysing organised crime? b. What do we need/want to know?

Universiteitstraat 4, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium T +32 (0) , F +32 (0) Prof. Dr. T. Vander Beken – Assessing organised crime – Bramshill, 26 February a. Why analysing organised crime? Organised crime is a key concern for many policy makers. To give an appropriate response to the phenomenon, policy makers need to be informed: preventive and/or repressive action operations, tactics and strategy Analyses are there to produce knowledge and understanding, not just information Analyses are tools to set priorities.

Universiteitstraat 4, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium T +32 (0) , F +32 (0) Prof. Dr. T. Vander Beken – Assessing organised crime – Bramshill, 26 February b. What do we want/need to know? Knowledge about the phenomenon includes: more than reporting on law enforcement activity: (in)significant law enforcement action can “create” (in)significant phenomena; information to think ahead about possible future developments (more than the report on last year’s situation); not only numbers of criminals, groups or activities, but a ranking of these issues to show differences in dangerousness, seriousness, …; and an understanding of the risk/threat posed by organised crime, the harm caused by it and the vulnerability of the environment.

Universiteitstraat 4, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium T +32 (0) , F +32 (0) Prof. Dr. T. Vander Beken – Assessing organised crime – Bramshill, 26 February a. Risk, threat, harm and vulnerability Risk is the chance of something happening that will have an impact upon objectives. Threat arises when a source of risk has an intent to occur or has the capability to do so. Harm is the damage occuring should a threat be realised. Vulnerability is an aspect of the environment offering opportunities to the threat to cause harm.

Universiteitstraat 4, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium T +32 (0) , F +32 (0) Prof. Dr. T. Vander Beken – Assessing organised crime – Bramshill, 26 February b. Risk, threat, harm and vulnerability THREAT (criminals) RISKVULNERABILITY (environment) HARM (society)

Universiteitstraat 4, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium T +32 (0) , F +32 (0) Prof. Dr. T. Vander Beken – Assessing organised crime – Bramshill, 26 February Tools for assessing organised crime Several methodological tools (best practices) exist to make « useful » organised crime assessments, focusing on: a. Threat b. Vulnerability c. Harm d. Risk

Universiteitstraat 4, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium T +32 (0) , F +32 (0) Prof. Dr. T. Vander Beken – Assessing organised crime – Bramshill, 26 February a. Threat analyses Focus is on measuring the intent and the capability of criminals (groups) and rank them according to their « dangerousity » (e.g. Canadian « Sleipnir » analysis, European OCTA,…). KNOWLEDGE RESOURCES RISK CAPABILITY EXPECTATION DESIRE INTENT HARM THREAT

Universiteitstraat 4, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium T +32 (0) , F +32 (0) Prof. Dr. T. Vander Beken – Assessing organised crime – Bramshill, 26 February b. Vulnerability studies Focus is on assessing the weak points in the (legal) environment which could be exploited by organised crime. (No law enforcement bias): Vulnerability studies of economic sectors; Environmental scans linking political, economic, social, technological and environmental (PESTE) evolutions to (future) crime opportunities; Scenario studies about key uncertainties; Crime proofing studies about legislation or products; …

Universiteitstraat 4, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium T +32 (0) , F +32 (0) Prof. Dr. T. Vander Beken – Assessing organised crime – Bramshill, 26 February c. Harm assessments Focus is on the consequences (harm) caused by organised crime. Ranking of crime phenomena/groups/vulnerabilities in order of the harm they (might) cause. Difficult and subject to debate: what is harm (economic, emotional, physical, intellectual, political…)? how to measure and compare (and rank)? Examples: UK approach (NCIS and SOCA)

Universiteitstraat 4, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium T +32 (0) , F +32 (0) Prof. Dr. T. Vander Beken – Assessing organised crime – Bramshill, 26 February d. Risk analyses Focus is on the analysis of the risk, thus linking assessments on threat, vulnerability and harm. The « ideal » model as it: combines information on criminal activities (threat), about the crime opportunities of the environment (vulnerabilities) and about the impact (harm) of organised crime; and offers knowledge to policy makers which is not only based on law enforcement activity to set priorities for both prevention and repression.

Universiteitstraat 4, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium T +32 (0) , F +32 (0) Prof. Dr. T. Vander Beken – Assessing organised crime – Bramshill, 26 February Future and (organized) crime assessments a. The ‘art ’ of environmental scanning b. Accepting uncertainties: scenarios c. Organized crime scenarios for Europe d. Evaluation

Universiteitstraat 4, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium T +32 (0) , F +32 (0) Prof. Dr. T. Vander Beken – Assessing organised crime – Bramshill, 26 February a. The art of environmental scanning Environmental scanning assumes that it is possible: 1. to detect major trends in society which are likely to continue in the future (forecast? predict?) 2. to link these trends to assessments of certain crime phenomena (causal relationship) This is extremely difficult (impossible?) The relationship between developments in society and crime is too complex. Prediction/forecasting is an art rather than a science. Moreover, the future is pictured as static and inevitable (utility for policy makers?)

Universiteitstraat 4, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium T +32 (0) , F +32 (0) Prof. Dr. T. Vander Beken – Assessing organised crime – Bramshill, 26 February b. Accepting uncertainties: scenarios The scenario technique allows to think about anticipation and preparation for possible future situations. Scenarios do not present one future but several alternative worlds worth preparing (anticipating) for. Starting point are key « uncertainties» to be used in stories about the future.

Universiteitstraat 4, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium T +32 (0) , F +32 (0) Prof. Dr. T. Vander Beken – Assessing organised crime – Bramshill, 26 February c. Organized crime scenarios for Europe Threat (criminal groups): access to technology and the role of the public sector: Desperate violence, Hide and seek, Traditional variety en Cyber strategies ; Vulnerability of the legal economy to organised crime: the enforcement of intellectual property rights and the regulation of economic sectors: Resitant sectors, Fortress Europe, Sieve en Fragmented vulnerability. (Examples taken from T. Vander Beken, ed., European Organised Crime Scenarios for 2015, 2006)

Universiteitstraat 4, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium T +32 (0) , F +32 (0) Prof. Dr. T. Vander Beken – Assessing organised crime – Bramshill, 26 February d. Evaluation As opposed to e.g. analyses in the business world, crime analyses deal with « future » in a very simple and non effective way. Environmental scans can be useful instruments. Scenarios, however, are more useful to policy makers as the give a more dynamic picture of the future

Universiteitstraat 4, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium T +32 (0) , F +32 (0) Prof. Dr. T. Vander Beken – Assessing organised crime – Bramshill, 26 February Conclusions A good organised crime policy requires strategic knowledge about the phenomenon allowing targeted and concrete action. Organised crime assessments are useful tools if they are able to help policy makers to assess the seriousness of the phenomenon. Assessments based on a risk-based concept (threat, harm, vulnerability) serve that purpose best. Scenario studies are useful tools to assess and anticipate future (organised) crime developments.