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National Threat Assessment 2008. Organised Crime - Politie

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• (the relationship with) relevant background factors to these criminal<br />

phenomena (crime-related factors),<br />

• social consequences of these criminal phenomena and<br />

• future developments as regards nature, scale and consequences.<br />

This in order to provide the basis for: 1) determining the primary aspects of<br />

policy priorities in the approach by the police and the judicial authorities on<br />

a national and (supra-)regional management level (to prioritise) and 2) defining<br />

criminal phenomena as blank spots and alert on new and notable criminal<br />

phenomena (to signalise) for the next four years.<br />

In accordance with the objective, the following general research questions<br />

apply to the study into specific criminal phenomena:<br />

1. How did the nature of the criminal phenomenon develop with regard<br />

to the way in which these criminal activities are performed<br />

2. How did the scale of the criminal phenomenon develop in terms of the<br />

amount of activity (frequency, occurrence, prevalence, scale)<br />

3. How did the nature of the criminal phenomenon develop with regard to<br />

the characteristics of people and criminal organisations suspected of being<br />

involved in or committing the crime<br />

4. What are the consequences of the criminal phenomenon for Dutch society<br />

5. What crime-related factors exist and to what extent and how do they affect<br />

the criminal phenomenon<br />

6. What are the expectations relating to the scale, working methods, criminal<br />

organisations involved and social consequences of the criminal phenomenon<br />

for the next couple of years<br />

1.4 Scope<br />

The research area for NTA 2008 is described as organised crime. This research<br />

area covers phenomena of criminal activities that occur (1) in the structural<br />

collaboration between people, that are committed with a view to (2) jointly<br />

achieving financial or material gain. The characteristic ‘structural collaboration<br />

between people’ not only means that they (intend to) regularly commit crimes,<br />

but also that there is a degree of consistency in the composition of the criminal<br />

organisation involved.<br />

chapter 1 – Introduction<br />

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