The Impact: Coronavirus and Organized Crime Podcast
1) TRAILER: Underworlds with Mark Shaw - Underworlds with Mark Shaw
Welcome to Underworlds with Mark Shaw.Organized Crime is everywhere, hidden in plain sight. The stories from this world have been mythologised by Hollywood. But the reality can be even stranger and mo...Show More
2) Bonus: Criminal Contagion
It's been a while since our previous episode of The Impact. But in that time the Global Initiative has continued to track the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on organized crime around the wo...Show More
3) COVID, Brazil & Organized Crime
Brazil is a vast country of some 211 million people. A nation full of energy but also plagued by crime; powerful criminal networks like the PCC and Red Commando battle over international and domestic ...Show More
4) Bonus Episode: Sarah Chayes on Corruption
In this bonus episode of The Impact: Coronavirus and Organized Crime, Jack sits down with author and former NPR foreign correspondent, Sarah Chayes. In this extended version of the interview which was...Show More
5) The COVID Roundtable
A different sounding episode as Jack sits down with a collection of organized crime experts to discuss what we have seen over the past few months and what might happen next.Guests:Tuesday Reitano, Dep...Show More
6) COVID and Corruption P2
This Pandemic is causing huge economic impacts. The World Bank has forecast a contraction of 5.3% in global GDP in 2020 – that is the deepest global recession in decades leaving lasting scars on the l...Show More
7) COVID and Corruption P1
It’s clear that throughout the recorded history of humanity, corruption has been present – and in a modern context Transparency International define corruption as the “abuse of entrusted power for pri...Show More
8) Illegal Wildlife Trade: Responsible for COVID?
We explore the illegal wildlife trade and it's apparent role in the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus. The huge socio-economic consequences on the communities where this trade takes place, not to mention...Show More
9) Heroin's journey during COVID
For over three decades Afghanistan has been the most dominant and largest producer of opium poppy and the production of heroin. From Afghanistan, heroin travels North and South – the northern route t...Show More
10) Part 2: Cocaine Trafficking & COVID - South America, West Africa & Europe
In Part 2 - Our journey follows the cocaine out of South America and across the Atlantic into Guinea-Bissau in West Africa, which that has been dubbed “a narco-state” by the UN and US. Then onto the t...Show More