Hi!
We are just 6 days away from the launch event (organised with the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and University of Essex) for “Ports, Crime and Security: Governing and Policing Seaports in a Changing World” by Anna Sergi, Alexandria Reid, Luca Storti and Marleen Easton.
Please find below some information plus some interesting related readings.
Where and when
The event will be the held on 25th November 18:00 - 19:30 at the National Liberal Club, 1 Whitehall Place, London, SW1A 2HE.
The evening will begin at 18:00 with a one-hour panel discussion (including Q&A) with the authors, hosted by Max Daly, Global Drugs Editor at VICE.
You may arrive any time from 17:30 onwards to secure your seat.
This will be followed by a wine reception and an exhibition of images taken by Anna Sergi during the research process.
How to attend (in-person and online)
Please RSVP by email to Conor O’Shea (ConorO@rusi.org) by 23rd November latest, stating whether you would like to attend in person or online. We encourage you to attend in person not only to meet the author but also to savour some wine for free!
Tickets are limited to ensure social distancing inside the venue, so please RSVP as soon as possible to secure a seat. To attend the event online, please register here.
Related readings
Free Ports, Not Safe Havens: Preventing Crime in the UK’s Future Freeports
NCA warns furloughed port and airport workers could be exploited by organised criminal groups
Coked Up Europe: Increase in cocaine traffic, more players and violence, but ‘Ndrangheta remains key
Easing of border controls could lead to increase in crime, expert warns
The Port-Crime Interface: A Report on Organised Crime & Corruption in Seaports
About the speakers
Professor Anna Sergi is a Professor of Criminology at the University of Essex, where she specialises in mafia studies, cross border policing of organised crime, and more recently, seaport security. She has authored five books, including the one launched here.
Alexandria Reid is a Research Fellow in the Organised Crime and Policing research group at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), where she specialises in environmental crime and illicit financial flows.
Professor Luca Storti is an Associate Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Torino and Research Fellow of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies in the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.
Professor Marleen Easton is chair of the research group ‘Governing and Policing Security’ at the Department of Public Governance and Management at Ghent University. She is Associate Professor at the Criminology Institute of Griffith University in Australia.
Max Daly is Vice’s Global Drugs Editor and specialises in reporting on drugs and crime. He won the Orwell Prize in 2019 for his work on young drug dealers and co-authored “Narcomania: How Britain Got Hooked on Drugs”.