Schreier Sarah, Leimbach Katharina
Sand 7, 72076 Tübingen, Germany Institute of Criminology, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
Universitätsstraße 25, 33615 Bielefeld, Germany Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on Conflict and Violence, Universität Bielefeld.
Trends Organ Crime. 2023;26(2):180-201. doi: 10.1007/s12117-022-09470-1. Epub 2022 Nov 14.
Criminological research on COVID-19 and its repercussions on crimes, criminals and law enforcement agencies is still in its infancy. This paper fills that void with regard to the influence of COVID-19 on organized crime and the work of law enforcement agencies' investigations of organized crime in Germany by presenting empirical findings from a nationwide qualitative interview study. Through the methodological combination of Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis, we find three central narratives (us vs. them, nationalization vs. internationalization, conservatism vs. innovation) that were provided by law enforcement personnel in terms of the way in which COVID-19 influenced both organized crime groups and their work in the investigation thereof. Following a reflexive approach, the implications of COVID-19 on the research process itself are also discussed.
关于新冠疫情及其对犯罪、罪犯和执法机构影响的犯罪学研究仍处于起步阶段。本文通过展示一项全国性定性访谈研究的实证结果，填补了新冠疫情对德国有组织犯罪的影响以及执法机构对有组织犯罪调查工作方面的空白。通过扎根理论和情境分析的方法结合，我们发现了执法人员提供的关于新冠疫情如何影响有组织犯罪集团及其调查工作的三个核心叙事（我们与他们、国有化与国际化、保守主义与创新）。遵循反思性方法，还讨论了新冠疫情对研究过程本身的影响。
