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This chapter examines the nexus terror-crime and the various insights in the field, its possible forms and the main criminal activities involved. Special attention is given to the causes that enable and prompt terrorist involvement in criminal acts and relationships with criminal groups. A model about them is proposed. Then, there is an additional revision of the endogenous and exogenous factors that can facilitate the interaction between terrorist and criminal actors. Then, consequences that could arise from the convergence between terrorism and common and organised criminality are reviewed.
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Researchers of the SahelinBoukara Houcine, Messaoud Fenouche, Touatit Lofti, Benhadj Karima, José María Blanco y Luis de la Corte Ibáñez, “Terrorismo y tráfico de drogas en África subsahariana”, Madrid, Instituto Español de Estudios Estratégicos e Instituto Militar de Documentación, Evaluación y Prospectiva de Argelia. Project document from the Instituto español de Estudios Estratégicos, 13/3/2013. Available on: http://www.ieee.es/Galerias/fichero/docs_trabajo/2013/DIEEET01-2013_IEEE-IMDEP.pdf. Also on the Sahel Wolfram Larcher, “Organized Crime and Conflict in the Sahel-Sahara Region”. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, September 2012. Available on: http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/sahel_sahara.pdf.
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de la Corte Ibáñez, L., Hristova Gergova, H. (2017). Why Do Links Between Terrorism and Crime Increase?. In: Larsen, H., Blanco, J., Pastor Pastor, R., Yager, R. (eds) Using Open Data to Detect Organized Crime Threats. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52703-1_12
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