2026

Berry, Mark, Mike Salinas, and R. V. Gundur. 2026. “Financial Risk Management Strategies of Small to Medium Illicit Drug Enterprises: Considering Low-level Money Laundering.” Trends in Organized Crime 26: 155–177. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-023-09501-5.

Burton, Lisa, and R. V. Gundur. 2026. “Protecting Users Against Fraud: An Evaluation of Anti-Fraud Messaging and Trust Mechanisms Within Consumer-to-Consumer Online Marketplaces in the Context of the UK’s Online Fraud Charter 2023.” European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10610-025-09651-y.

Costello, Adam, and R. V. Gundur. 2026. “Decoding Crypto Asset Fraud: A Crime Script Analysis of Crypto Ponzi, Rug Pull, and Mint-and-Run Schemes.” Journal of Economic Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconc.2026.100239.

Gundur, R. V., Volkan Topalli, Zarina Vakhitova, Harry Kangluo Liu, Michael Levi, Charlie Winter, and Alexandra Louise Anderson Baxter. 2026. “The Commercialization of Ransomware: From Spray-and-Prey to Big Game Hunting to the Ransom Bazaar.” Crime & Delinquency. https://doi.org/10.1177/00111287261440146.

Shaw, April, and R. V. Gundur. 2026. “‘Addiction Never Seems to Be Historic’: How Older Women in Recovery from Illicit Drug Use Experience Stigma Within Their Practitioner-Patient Communications.” Drugs: Education, Prevention & Policy. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2026.2647881.

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2025

Azizi, Hamid, and R. V. Gundur. 2025. “Collecting data in forbidden places: reflections on gaining access, mitigating risks, and managing fieldworkers in geopolitically sensitive and precarious situations.” International Journal of Qualitative Methods. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069251345502.

Azizi, Hamid, and R. V. Gundur.. 2025. “The Taliban’s Drug Trade Revenue and Taxation System: What the Experts Know.” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism. https://doi.org/10.1080/1057610X.2025.2502924.

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2024

Cole, Tessa, and R. V. Gundur. 2024. “Virtual Currency, Cryptoassets, and Cybercrime.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, edited by Henry N Pontell. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Winter, Charlie, and R. V. Gundur. 2024. “Challenges in Gaining Ethical Approval for Sensitive Digital Social Science Studies.” International Journal of Social Research Methodology 27 (1): 31–46. https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2022.2122226.

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2023

Aqil, Nauman, Katharine Petrich, and R. V. Gundur. 2023. “Leveraging Identity to Overcome Temporal and Financial Limitations in Rapid Ethnography in Criminological Research.” Journal of Criminology 56 (2-3): 170–193. https://doi.org/10.1177/26338076231172521.

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2022

Gundur, R. V. 2022. Trying to Make It: The Enterprises, Gangs, and People of the American Drug Trade. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.

Gundur, R. V., and Daniel R. Kavish. 2022. “Captives in Society: The Role of Race in the Carceral Cycle.” In Power and Pain in the Modern Prison: The Society of Captives Revisited, edited by Ben Crewe, Andrew Goldsmith and Mark Halsey. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Gundur, R. V., and Rebecca Trammell. 2022. “When prison gangs become organized crime: Studying protection arrangements and their consequences.” Trends in Organized Crime 25 (4): 365–377. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-022-09469-8.

Taodang, Dean, and R. V. Gundur. 2022. “How Frauds in Times of Crisis Target People.” Victims & Offenders: 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564886.2022.2043968.

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2021

Badman, Haylie, Derek Dalton, and R. V. Gundur. 2021. “Popular Representations of Crime.” In Crime and Justice: A Guide to Criminology, edited by Derek Dalton, Willem de Lint and Darren Palmer. Thompson Reuters.

Berry, Mark, and R. V. Gundur. 2021. “Financial Risk Management Strategies of Small to Medium Illicit Enterprises.” Second International Research Conference on Empirical Approaches to AML and Financial Crime Suppression, Nassau, The Bahamas. https://www.crimrxiv.com/pub/x79mn7ac/download/pdf.

Gundur, R. V., Mark Berry, and Dean Taodang. 2021. “Using Digital Open Source and Crowdsourced Data in Studies of Deviance and Crime.” In Researching Cybercrimes: Methodologies, Ethics, and Critical Approaches, edited by Anita Lavorgna and Thomas J. Holt, 145–167. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan.

Gundur, R. V., Michael Levi, Volkan Topalli, Marie Ouellet, Maria Stolyarova, Lennon Yao-Chung Chang, and Diego Domínguez Mejía. 2021. Evaluating Criminal Transactional Methods in Cyberspace as Understood in an International Context. https://www.crimrxiv.com/pub/q28n1b8f/download/pdf.

Hosford, Kara, Nauman Aqil, James Windle, R. V. Gundur, and Felia Allum. 2021. “Who researches organised crime? A review of organised crime authorship trends (2004–2019).” Trends in Organized Crime 25 (3): 249–271. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-021-09437-8.

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2020

Giommoni, Luca, R. V. Gundur, and Erik Cheekes. 2020. “International Drug Trafficking: Past, Present, and Prospective Trends.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, edited by Henry N. Pontell. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Gundur, R. V. 2020. “Finding the Sweet Spot: Optimizing criminal careers within the context of illicit enterprise.” Deviant Behavior 41 (3): 378–397. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2019.1565851. http://10.1080/01639625.2019.1565851.

Gundur, R. V.. 2020. “Negotiating Violence and Protection in Prison and on the Outside: The Organizational Evolution of the Transnational Prison Gang Barrio Azteca.” International Criminal Justice Review 30 (1): 30–60. https://doi.org/10.1177/1057567719836466. https://doi.org/10.1177/1057567719836466.

Gundur, R. V.. 2020. “Prison Gangs.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice, edited by Henry N. Pontell. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Gundur, R.V. 2020. “Transnational organized crime in Latin America and the Caribbean (R. Evan Ellis).” International Criminal Justice Review.

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2019

Gundur, R. V. 2019. “Settings matter: Examining protection’s influence on the illicit drug trade in convergence settings in the Paso del Norte metropolitan area.” Crime, Law and Social Change 72 (3): 229–360. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-019-09810-3.

Gundur, R. V. 2019. “Using the Internet to Recruit Respondents for Offline Interviews in Criminological Studies.” Urban Affairs Review 55 (6): 1731 –1756. https://doi.org/10.1177/1078087417740430. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1078087417740430.

Purvis, W. E., and R. V. Gundur. 2019. “The drug trade at a glance.” In Research Handbook on Transnational Crime, edited by Valsamis Mitsilegas, Saskia Hufnagel and Anton Moiseienko. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing.

Williams, Matthew, Michael Levi, Pete Burnap, and R. V.  Gundur. 2019. “Under the Corporate Radar: Examining Insider Business Cybercrime Victimization through an Application of Routine Activities Theory.” Deviant Behavior 40 (9): 1119–1131. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2018.1461786.

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2018

Giommoni, Luca, and R. V. Gundur. 2018. “An analysis of the United Kingdom’s cannabis market using crowdsourced data.” Global Crime 19 (2): 85–106. https://doi.org/10.1080/17440572.2018.1460071.

Gundur, R. V. 2018. “The changing social organization of prison protection markets: when prisoners choose to organize horizontally rather than vertically.” Trends in Organized Crime 25 (4): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-018-9332-0.

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2013-2017

Levi, Michael, Alan Doig, Rajeev Gundur, David Wall, and Matthew Williams. 2017. “Cyberfraud and the implications for effective risk-based responses: Themes from UK research.” Crime, Law and Social Change 67 (1): 77–96. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-016-9648-0.

Levi, Michael, Alan Doig, Rajeev Gundur, David Wall, and Matthew Leighton Williams. 2015. The implications of economic cybercrime for policing. City of London Corporation (London).

Levi, Michael, Rajeev Gundur, Martin Innes, and Peter Reuter. 2014. “Impact économique, financier et social du crime organisé dans l’Union européenne.” Sécurité et stratégie 16. https://doi.org/10.3917/sestr.016.0084. http://www.cairn.info/revue-securite-et-strategie-2014-1-page-84.htm.

Levi, Michael, Martin Innes, Peter Reuter, and Rajeev V Gundur. 2013. The Economic, Financial & Social Impacts of Organised Crime in the European Union. Brussels: Publications Office.

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