The International Association for the Study of Organized Crime (IASOC) is a professional association of criminologists, researchers, working professionals, teachers, and students. IASOC works to promote greater understanding and research about organized crime in all its manifestations.
IASOC was founded in 1984 and holds annual meetings in conjuction with the American Society of Criminology (November) as a forum to disseminate the latest knowledge and research about organized crime.
The quarterly, peer-reviewed journal Trends in Organized Crime is provided as a benefit of membership in IASOC. The journal reports exclusively on current research in all areas of organized crime and the criminal justice response to it. It is published by Transaction Publishers (www.transactionpub.com).
Reliable Information about organized crime is not always easy to obtain. A membership listing for IASOC is provided here, and linked to particular areas of expertise that members have self-identified. This source is designed to encourage direct inquiries from others in order to offer multiple sources of information about organized crime from among our membership.
To find out more about IASOC, please read our constitution as it describes in more detail the workings of our organization.
Welcome to the International Association for the Study of Organized Crime. It is an honour and pleasure to serve as the AssociationŐs president.
The IASOC is doing very well at the moment; there are many new developments and changes. First of all, a new advanced website is in progress, which will make communication and information exchange between the members even more effective and simple, thanks to Kip Schlegel. Secondly, IASOC widens its position not only in the United States, but also in Europe. For the first time one of the panels on organized crime will be organized by IASOC at the coming ESC (European Society of Criminology) conference in Bologna in September 2007. I hope that annual meetings will be held at the following ESC meetings as regular as at the ASC. Thirdly, the high-quality journal Trends in Organized Crime has launched new initiatives, thanks to the enthusiasm of its new editor Klaus von Lampe. The character of the journal, however, will be maintained, as it has been successfully shaped in recent years under Jim Finckenauer's editorship. Fourthly, annual breakfasts at the ASC are relatively well-attended (though we would encourage more members to come). The next meeting will be held in Atlanta in November 2007.
I hope new members will join IASOC in the coming years and I look forward to seeing many IASOC members in Bologna and in Atlanta.
Dina Siegel
