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43 Int'l Annals Criminology 51 (2005)
The Diversity of the Crime-Terror Interaction

handle is hein.journals/iancrml43 and id is 51 raw text is: THE DIVERSITY OF THE CRIME-TERROR INTERACTION John Picarelli (*) Louise Shelley (**) There are striking similarities between terrorists and individuals engaged in organized crime. Both commit fraud, theft, forgery, and violent street crime. Both traffic in drugs and human beings. Both extort, intimidate, and bribe. Both conduct business in the legitimate economy, too. Both use subterfuge to conceal their real purpose. Gran- ted, their motives appear different : organized criminals focus on making money and terrorists aim to undermine political authority. But the per- petrators sometimes have similar profiles, and in some regions of the globe are often the same individuals. This paper proposes a new analytical framework to analyze the points of intersection of crime and terrorists. It eschews the existing exclusive emphasis on the financial links between organized crime and terrorism and suggests a greater variety of intersections beyond the financial arena than most prior analyses have focused on. It develops an interaction spectrum to capture the complexity of this emerging rela- tionship, and suggests << watch points >> as important points of intersec- tion and simple foci of analysis. Existing academic work has provided some foundation for analysis of these links and interactions. During the 1990s, some scholars argued that a convergence between international terrorism and transnational organized crime would prove detrimental to national security and would require new techniques and tools to combat. This analysis, however, did not result in any systematic study of the cooperative arrangements between those criminal and terrorist groups. The << methods not motives >> argument has long been a maxim for analysts investigating links between organized crime and terrorism, on the grounds that while terrorists might share the methods of other (*) Mr. Picarelli is a Research Lecturer in the School of International Service and an Analyst at TraCCC (Transnational Crime and Corruption Center, American University). Email : pic@american.edu. (**) Dr. Shelley is a Professor in the School of International Service and is the Director of TraCCC. Email : lshelle@american.edu 51

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