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Underground web: the cybercrime challenge
The two papers in this Special Report examine the central role that cybercrime plays in modern society and how technological developments create new opportunities for criminals to exploit.
Overview
Calum Jeffrayâs paper, Caught in the net: the law enforcement response to international cybercrime, surveys the strategic cybercrime landscape and illustrates that, despite calls for law enforcement to âdo moreâ to prevent and investigate cybercrime, the agencies involved are often hampered in acting due to jurisdictional issues or the complexity of the investigations.
Tobias Feakinâs paper, Cryptomarketsâillicit goods in the darknet, examines the emergence of the âdarknetâ, where trading in illicit goods and services in online black markets has become increasingly commonplace and exacerbates the problems that law enforcement already facesâtracing and prosecuting illegal activities online.
This Special Report includes a foreword by Australian Federal Police Commissioner Andrew Colvin
Social Indicators for Arctic Mining
This paper reviews and assesses the state of the data to describe and monitor mining
trends in the pan-Arctic. It constructs a mining index and discusses its value as a social
impact indicator and discusses drivers of change in Arctic mining. The widely available
measures of mineral production and value are poor proxies for economic effects on
Arctic communities. Trends in mining activity can be characterized as stasis or decline in
mature regions of the Arctic, with strong growth in the frontier regions. World prices and
the availability of large, undiscovered and untapped resources with favorable access and
low political risk are the biggest drivers for Arctic mining, while climate change is a
minor and locally variable factor. Historical data on mineral production and value is
unavailable in electronic format for much of the Arctic, specifically Scandinavia and
Russia; completing the historical record back to 1980 will require work with paper
archives. The most critically needed improvement in data collection and reporting is to
develop comparable measures of employment: the eight Arctic countries each use
different definitions of employment, and different methodologies to collect the data.
Furthermore, many countries do not report employment by county and industry, so the
Arctic share of mining employment cannot be identified. More work needs to be done to
develop indicator measures for ecosystem service flows. More work also needs to be
done developing conceptual models of effects of mining activities on fate control,
cultural continuity and ties to nature for local Arctic communities
Calling Brussels:An Innovative Teaching Project
This innovative teaching project brought students and professionals working at or with the European Union (EU) together via video-conferencing. The idea was that by having students talk to policymakers this would add to their understanding of the EU and allow them to practice their interview skills. These interviews would be incorporated in a regular first-year course on the political system of the EU. Students had to do the necessary research and prepare questions beforehand. Introducing this activity to the course made it more interactive, gave students a more practical orientation and added yet another international element to the already international group of students. In political science and legal courses there is rarely time for field research. Including long-distance interviews added an element of qualitative research with real persons, who are involved in EU policy making. Students not only had to prepare for the interviews but also practiced their research skills under realistic conditions (with a stranger who is an expert on a certain subject). It also contributed to the fulfillment of the Bologna agenda goals of internationalization and digitalization
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