CINA and Mason’s Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) welcomed Alan Bersin, a renowned authority on transnational crime and international relations. His presentation proposed a new framework for combating transnational criminal activity. Mr. Bersin argues that Global illicit flows perpetrated by organized crime, in the interstices of lawful trade and travel, represent the principal… Read More about Lines, Flows, and Transnational Crime: Toward a Revised Approach to Countering the Underworld of Globalization

The environmental crime of illegal logging creates a layered web of exploitation. Natural resources, protected lands, and threated species of plants and trees are exploited as well as trafficked labor. Criminal networks often force indigenous populations into slavery and other non-indigenous victims are trafficked to illegally harvest timber. Illegal logging represents 10-30% of the wood… Read More about Illegal Logging, Environmental Crime, and Human Trafficking

CINA researcher Mary Ellen O’Toole will take you into the mind of the psychopath—”the most intriguing, frightening, and challenging personality I ever dealt with in my career as an FBI Special Agent Profiler.”