Criminal Contagion: How Mafias, Gangsters and Scammers Profit from a Pandemic

COVID-19 is reshaping and challenging governments, social order and the world economy in previously unimaginable ways—including changes to the illegal flow of goods and services. Livelihoods are shrinking or disappearing altogether, and mafias, gangsters and profiteers are adapting to find new routes for illegal commodities, from counterfeit drugs to trafficked wildlife and people.

Shortages, lockdowns and citizen responses have brought the underworld and upperworld into greater convergenc...