Overview
Methods, techniques, operational practices, and recurring patterns used to commit, conceal, facilitate, finance, or organize criminal activity.
Browse Criminal Methods
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Violence and Coercion
Methods involving threats, assaults, killings, kidnappings, intimidation, and enforcement.
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Trafficking and Distribution
Methods used to transport, store, distribute, and sell illegal goods or contraband.
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Fraud and Financial Methods
Schemes involving deception, laundering, false documentation, theft, and financial concealment.
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Concealment and Evasion
Methods used to hide evidence, avoid detection, obstruct investigations, or evade law enforcement.
Entries
Entries will be added here as the Crime Encyclopedia expands. Individual pages should cross-link related cases, events, investigations, methods, organizations, people, places, and stories whenever those relationships are documented.
Research and Evidentiary Methods
- Source Evaluation and Claim Status — Standard for distinguishing official records, contemporary reporting, participant accounts, later synthesis, and street lore.
Criminal and Investigative Methods — Planned
- Consignment and credit in narcotics distribution
- Interstate trafficking corridors
- Kidnapping for ransom and extortion
- Witness retaliation
- Cooperating witnesses and plea agreements
- Multi-agency task forces