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Global Crime

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 7, 2024
Entity authorityQ15751144 ↗
Source-derived summary

Global Crime is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the study of crime. It was established in 1995 as Transnational Organized Crime, obtaining its current name in 2004. It is published by Routledge and the editor-in-chief is Carlo Morselli (University of Montreal).

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“Global Crime” enters the record as journal. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Global, Crime and journal can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1995, 2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Global, Crime and journal.
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“Global Crime” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Global, Crime and journal provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 7, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q15751144. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995 and 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from “Global Crime” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.