Links from the book:

www.iasoc.net
International Association for the Study of Organized Crime. This is aimed at academics and professionals. It includes the latest news on organized crime issues, reviews of publications on the subject, and a members’ list with their areas of expertise.

www.organized-crime.de
Run by Klaus von Lampe, an academic based in the US, this website provides a wealth of information on organized crime, including academic and official definitions and other links to organized crime topics. It also alerts the user to recent publications on the subject, the latest conferences, and book reviews.

www.soca.gov.uk
This website provides up-to-date information on the work of the UK Serious and Organised Crime Agency. Its annual threat assessment provides a detailed description of the perceived scale and responses to different criminal issues, including the latest statistics and definitions of activities related to organized crime.

www.unodc.org/unodc/en/organized-crime/index.html
The official UN website for organized crime, policing, and other related areas. It provides a global view of strategies to fight transnational organized crime and is a useful starting point for investigating linked activities such as human and drug trafficking.

www.yorku.ca/nathanson
The Nathanson Centre for the Study of Organized Crime and Corruption is one of the leading research centers for this subject. It provides a wide range of perspectives on organized crime and related subjects.

Further links of interest:

Centre for Criminology, Hong Kong:
www.crime.hku.hk/
Has a special report entitled "Trans-national Organized Crime Conference Proceedings.”

The Nathanson Centre: for the study of crime and corruption:
www.yorku.ca/nathanson/default.htm
Provides empirical studies and research publications focused on US organized crime.

Criminal justice resources: Organized Crime:
www.lib.msu.edu/harris23/crimjust/orgcrime.htm
This compilation of resources focuses on adult gangs, gangsters, the mafia, and international gangs.

The Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC):
www1.american.edu/traccc
A non-partisan, non-profit institute dedicated to the research of trends in organized crime and corruption, at the American University.

NCIS: National Criminal Intelligence Service:
www.ncis.co.uk/
NCIS began life as the National Drugs Intelligence Unit in the Home Office, emerging as a discrete entity in 1992. Following the Police and Criminal Justice Act 2001, NCIS returned to direct funding by the Home Office in 2002. It is now a non-departmental public body. In 2004, the Home Secretary announced that NCIS will become part of the new Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), planned to start work in 2006.

Mobology Interactive:
www.moldea.com/mobology.html
A regularly-updated service of Moldea.com (www.moldea.com) providing links to hundreds of public-information sources about organized crime and related matters.

Jerry Capeci’s Gangland:
www.ganglandnews.com/
One of America's foremost experts on the American Mafia, he is a frequent guest on network and cable television programs in the U.S. and Canada. A long-time reporter, columnist and author, he has written scores of news articles and feature stories about organized crime for newspapers and magazines around the world.

Organized Crime Registry:
http://members.tripod.com/~orgcrime/index2.htm
Contains articles, links and news related to organized crime syndicates. Coverage on this site includes: American Mafia, Russian Mafia, Japanese Yakuza, La Cosa Nostra, Triads, Yardies (posses), South American drug cartels and other crime syndicates.

United Nations organised crime pages:
http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/organized-crime/index.html?ref=menuside
The Convention against Transnational Organized Crime provides the normative framework and orientation for the global programme. The programme aims at ensuring states ratify the Convention and that they take effective, practical steps, in line with the provisions of the Convention, to fight organized crime.