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From drug dealers to loan sharks: how coronavirus empowers organised crime
Sarah Best
23rd June 2020
Here is an article that discusses how organised crime has profited from the impacts of the coronavirus, including in the illegal drug trade and online scams.
Criminal gangs are capitalising on the use of the internet to sell their goods such as protective equipment, which is may have been stolen or counterfeit.
The article could be used for the Crime and Deviance unit (globalisation and crime in contemporary society, the social distribution of crime and deviance; including recent patterns and trends in crime)
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