NCJ Number
230768
Date Published
2010
Length
18 pages
Annotation
This chapter uses a situational crime prevention perspective to examine how the city of Amsterdam employs an administrative approach to fight organized crime.
Abstract
During the 1990s, the city of Amsterdam introduced an administrative approach to fighting organized crime. This approach had three interrelated parts: the Van Traa Project aimed at improving the prevention of organized crime in the Red Light District; the use of the Bureau of Screening and Auditing which is responsible for the screening and monitoring of all parties involved in large infrastructure projects in the city; and the Integrity Bureau which is responsible for the regulation of internal municipal departments. This chapter discusses these three parts in detail and examines from a situational crime prevention perspective how each part is used to monitor and contain organized crime in Amsterdam. Findings from the analysis indicate that while this administrative approach to fighting organized crime is innovative and promising, the three parts of the approach were developed independently of one another and thus do not complement each other in their stated objectives and goals. Tables, notes, and references