Bad Thoughts: Towards an Organised Crime Harm Assessment and Prioritisation System (OCHAPS)

Dorn, Nicholas; Bunt, Henk van de

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“…There has also been relatively little comparative analysis of how law enforcement agencies conceptualise and measure harm, or evaluations of the techniques used to measure harm (notable exceptions are [8,16,49,51]). This gap is partly explained by weak or undeveloped methodologies (see [16,21,47,51]) or unnecessarily secretive processes (see [45]).…”

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“…Harm analysis faces additional challenges, including operationalising the ambiguous multi-faceted concept of harm, differentiating organised crime-related harms from "non-organised" harms, quantifying or monetising certain harms (e.g., decreased confidence in justice system), and countering the politicisation of certain harms (e.g., from illicit drugs). Such challenges will not be further discussed in this article as they are effectively covered elsewhere (see particularly [8,20,27]). …”

Section: Challenges In the Analysis Of Organised Crime-related Harmsmentioning

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“…For example, research indicates that law enforcement interventions in illicit drug markets can unintentionally increase violence ([40]: 6). The relationship between counter-measures against organised crime and collateral damage should be assessed, especially if these measures generate greater harms than the crime targeted ( [8]: 35) or if law enforcement incorrectly attributes harm caused by its counter-measures as directly caused by organised crime. This presupposes, as Von Lampe [49] argues, that law enforcement can critically and effectively evaluate its practices.…”

Section: Challenges In the Analysis Of Organised Crime-related Harmsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…8 Subject-matter experts from law enforcement, government, industry and academia use a structured questionnaire created by the ACC to ascribe a numeric score to each crime issue based on defined criteria in three categories: political, social and economic. The political component analyses the nature and level of government interest (federal and state/territory), interest from law enforcement and regulatory agencies, and legislative and regulatory efforts.…”

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“…It examines the reliability and validity of each method's operationalisation of harm, building upon recent evaluations of assessments on organised crime (particularly [16,51]). This article also builds upon research that explores the practical application of risk assessment methodology to organised crime (particularly [1,2,8,32,46,47]) and seeks to develop further risk assessment methodology.…”

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Measuring organised crime-related harms: exploring five policing methods

Tusikov

2011

Crime Law Soc Change

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Many law enforcement agencies around the world have adopted risk assessment methodologies to analyse organised crime. These assessments, which are intended to provide law enforcement management with rigourous analysis to enable rational and objective decision-making processes, are an integral part of intelligenceled policing. Despite the prevalence of these assessments, as the assessments and their methodologies are often tightly restricted within the law enforcement community, it is often unclear how law enforcement defines, analyses and makes decisions about organised crime. While the use of risk assessment methodology in policing to analyse organised crime is generally under-evaluated, critics point to serious methodological weaknesses. Another less-explored aspect in the scholarly literature is how law enforcement conceptualises and measures the impact of "harm" from organised crime and uses this analysis to inform priority-setting processes. This article explores how law enforcement assesses organised crime-related harm by examining five policing methods-one each from Australia and the Netherlands and three from the United Kingdom. The article finds that the methods have significant shortcomings: the main concepts are generally ill-defined and the operationalisation of these concepts is problematic. More importantly, the problems evident in the harm methods raise several critical questions, specifically whether measuring organised crime-related harms is empirically feasible and, if so, can be undertaken in a manner that meaningfully informs law enforcement's decision-making and limits undue political interference.

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A Framework to Assess the Harms of Crimes

Greenfield¹,

Paoli²

2013

British Journal of Criminology

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A Framework to Assess the Harms of Crime

Greenfield¹,

Paoli²

2022

Assessing the Harms of Crime

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This chapter sets out a methodology for assessing the harms of crime systematically and empirically—namely, the harm assessment framework—which supports the analyses in subsequent chapters. It discusses the origins of the approach in literatures that span disciplines and presents the components of the framework, consisting of a set of analytical tools (data template, taxonomy, severity and incidence scales, and priority matrix) and a multistep process for applying them. The harm assessment framework weaves the tools together to identify, evaluate, and rank harms from damages to functional, material, and other interests, which are borne by individuals, private-sector entities, government, and the social and physical environment. In a final step, it also investigates causality, including the role of policy and related law-enforcement practices in shaping harms. All told, the framework addresses many of the conceptual and technical challenges of harm assessment raised previously.

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Bad Thoughts: Towards an Organised Crime Harm Assessment and Prioritisation System (OCHAPS)

Cited by 10 publications

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Measuring organised crime-related harms: exploring five policing methods

Measuring organised crime-related harms: exploring five policing methods

A Framework to Assess the Harms of Crimes

A Framework to Assess the Harms of Crime

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