ELSA-VU lunch meeting: Sociolegal research methods in an interdisciplinary research project into crimes, democracies, and rule of law

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In this session, Jill Coster van Voorhout and (some of) the six PhDs in this project, certainly Alexandrah Bakker, will detail an example of sociolegal research methods yet used of following financial flows in a big data set of a bank on potential victims of human trafficking for labor exploitation to criminal networks that may so exploit them (2015-2019). Extrapolating from this detailed example from previous research, we will thereafter set out how to similarly co-create indicators in focus groups with inter alia the 22 partner organizations including three banks assists studying the more systemic factors of ondermijning in and via the Netherlands in our ongoing NWO-funded COMCRIM (2024-2029). In short, this means a focus on its business model. Negatively put, hardly any organized crime can be committed without (a) persons, (b) money and (c) infrastructure. Therefore, we focus on (a) human trafficking, (b) money laundering and (c) corruption. All three are not only internationally recognized organized crimes themselves, but will also allow us to detect (a) forced commission of (other) organized crimes, (b) the whitewashing of their criminal proceeds, and (c) their effects of interweaving the under- and upperworld.

LEVEL: Basic

METHOD: Qualitative and quantitative

PREREQUISITES AND REGISTRATION: No prior knowledge required. The meeting will be online (please send an email to m.j.mulders@vu.nl for the Teams link). After the presentation there’s time for a Q&A and discussion. Your presence would be highly appreciated. If you are interested but not available, please let us know and a recording of the lecture can be sent to you afterwards.

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Thank you for understanding and see you there!