Criminal behaviour always takes place within a context. The project MAVUS, which stands for Method for Assessment of Vulnerability of Sectors, deploys a method to measure the vulnerability of economic sectors to organised crime. MAVUS observes contexts, scanning for vulnerabilities...

This paper explores two configurations of thinking about crime amongst law enforcement agencies and private sector security managers: ‘risk calculation' (concerned with everyday, calculable probabilities and impacts and their management) and ‘precautionary uncertainty' (concerned with events...