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Frederike Ambagtsheer

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ID6805175
NAMEFrederike Ambagtsheer
GIVEN NAMESFrederike
FAMILY NAMEAmbagtsheer
SIGNATUREAMBAGTSHEER F
AFFILIATIONSErasmus MC
ORCID0000-0002-3232-6449
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS3
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR3
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1
  • Understanding the challenges to investigating and prosecuting organ trafficking

    Open Access•Frederike Ambagtsheer•ARTICLE•Trends in Organized Crime•2025

    The human organ trade is proliferating globally. However, far fewer cases have been prosecuted than would be expected based on estimates of the crime. Research exploring the challenges to investigating and prosecuting organ trafficking cases is practically non-existent. Also no studies exist that explain these challenges utilizing a criminal justice framework. This article aims to explain the legal, institutional and environmental factors that af…

  • The organization of the human organ trade

    Open Access•Frederike Ambagtsheer, Roos Bugter•ARTICLE•Crime Law and Social Change•2023

    This study fills critical knowledge gaps into the organization of organ trade utilizing crime script analysis. Adopting a situational crime prevention approach, this article draws from law enforcement data to compare the crime commission process (activities, cast and locations) of 2 prosecuted organ trade cases: the Medicus case and the Netcare case. Both cases involved transnational criminal networks that performed kidney transplants from living…

  • The battle for human organs

    Frederike Ambagtsheer, Damián Zaitch et al.•ARTICLE•Global Crime•2013•Cited by: 2•References: 4

    While the trade in human organs remains largely in the darkness as it is hardly reported, detected or scientifically researched, a range of key institutional stakeholders, professionals, policy-makers and scholars involved in this field show remarkable high levels of moral condemnation and share a rather unanimous prohibitionist line. Some have equated this phenomenon to genocide or talk about ‘neo-cannibalism’, others present it as dominated by …

  • The battle for human organs

    Frederike Ambagtsheer, Damián Zaitch et al.•ARTICLE•Global Crime•2013•Cited by: 2•References: 4

    While the trade in human organs remains largely in the darkness as it is hardly reported, detected or scientifically researched, a range of key institutional stakeholders, professionals, policy-makers and scholars involved in this field show remarkable high levels of moral condemnation and share a rather unanimous prohibitionist line. Some have equated this phenomenon to genocide or talk about ‘neo-cannibalism’, others present it as dominated by …

  • The battle for human organs

    Frederike Ambagtsheer, Damián Zaitch et al.•ARTICLE•Global Crime•2013•Cited by: 2•References: 4

    While the trade in human organs remains largely in the darkness as it is hardly reported, detected or scientifically researched, a range of key institutional stakeholders, professionals, policy-makers and scholars involved in this field show remarkable high levels of moral condemnation and share a rather unanimous prohibitionist line. Some have equated this phenomenon to genocide or talk about ‘neo-cannibalism’, others present it as dominated by …

  • The organization of the human organ trade

    Open Access•Frederike Ambagtsheer, Roos Bugter•ARTICLE•Crime Law and Social Change•2023

    This study fills critical knowledge gaps into the organization of organ trade utilizing crime script analysis. Adopting a situational crime prevention approach, this article draws from law enforcement data to compare the crime commission process (activities, cast and locations) of 2 prosecuted organ trade cases: the Medicus case and the Netcare case. Both cases involved transnational criminal networks that performed kidney transplants from living…

  • Understanding the challenges to investigating and prosecuting organ trafficking

    Open Access•Frederike Ambagtsheer•ARTICLE•Trends in Organized Crime•2025

    The human organ trade is proliferating globally. However, far fewer cases have been prosecuted than would be expected based on estimates of the crime. Research exploring the challenges to investigating and prosecuting organ trafficking cases is practically non-existent. Also no studies exist that explain these challenges utilizing a criminal justice framework. This article aims to explain the legal, institutional and environmental factors that af…

Criminology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Organ Donation and Transplantation (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Law enforcement (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Transplantation (2 works) · Battle (1 work)

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