The website of Thailand's Anti-Money Laundering Office, the country's lead agency on money laundering and terrorist financing. The legal section holds the governing Acts, ministerial ordinances, regulations and notifications, along with related statutes on predicate offences such as transnational organised crime and human trafficking. The international cooperation section carries Thailand's national risk assessment on money laundering, the report on the country's compliance with international standards, and the list of high-risk countries. A knowledge section holds a database of relevant research, academic work and theses, and public services include checking seizure and restraint orders and victim rights protection. Useful for citing Thai money laundering law or the country's officially assessed risk level.

The Crime Reduction Toolkit from the UK's College of Policing condenses systematic-review evidence on what actually reduces crime, covering interventions from alley gating and body-worn cameras to alcohol pricing and after-school programmes. Each is rated with the EMMIE framework, showing the impact on crime, how and where the intervention works, how to implement it, and what it costs. The table gives both the effect and the quality of the evidence behind it, allowing interventions to be compared side by side. Useful when choosing tactics on more than a simple yes or no on effectiveness.

An international, interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed open access journal with an applied orientation. It publishes research articles and systematic reviews reflecting cooperation across environmental criminology, economics, engineering, geography, public health, psychology, statistics and urban planning, aimed at improving the detection, prevention and understanding of crime and disorder. It also carries theoretical articles that integrate theories from different disciplines, and short contributions on timely topics such as crime patterns, technological advances for detection and prevention, and analytical techniques. Its stated goal is to broaden the scientific base for the understanding, analysis and control of crime and disorder, and it is aimed at researchers, practitioners and policymakers with an interest in crime reduction.

The research library of Thailand's Department of Special Investigation, the Ministry of Justice agency handling complex and high-impact crime. The page gathers a range of reports covering the development of special-case investigation law, technology applied to investigative work such as artificial intelligence for internet crime alerts, blockchain for witness protection, and satellite imagery and thermal cameras on unmanned aircraft for forest, land and wildlife cases, alongside criminological and behavioural analysis of human trafficking cases, cybercrime investigation targeting electronic banking services, and annual public confidence surveys. Most entries link to a full report downloadable as a free PDF. Useful when the work calls for criminological research produced inside Thailand's own legal and investigative system. Note that the reports themselves are written in Thai, so most titles remain in Thai even on the English version of the page.

Europol is the European Union's law enforcement agency, supporting police work across member states. Its Main Reports page brings together its four annual reports and always links to the latest edition of each: EU-SOCTA on organized crime threats, IOCTA on cyber-enabled crime, TE-SAT on terrorism trends, and the Annual Europol Review on the agency's own work. Useful when you need an authoritative regional threat picture that is refreshed every year.

The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is the intergovernmental body that sets the global standards against money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation financing, through the 40 Recommendations that member countries are assessed against. Its Publications page gathers reports, guidance, and best practices covering cyber-enabled fraud, virtual asset risks, asset recovery, and emerging financial crime. Useful for work that follows the money behind criminal networks.

The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) is an independent Geneva-based organization working through a network of over 600 experts worldwide. It publishes research and analysis on organized crime, illicit economies, trafficking routes, and synthetic drugs, alongside Risk Bulletins in which its regional observatories track developments on the ground. Its flagship is the Global Organized Crime Index, scoring criminality and resilience across 193 countries with country profiles you can open individually, Thailand included. Useful when you want civil society analysis rather than official government reporting.

INTERPOL is the international police organization, with 196 member countries, coordinating cooperation between police forces worldwide. Its Crimes data divides the field into 16 areas, from cybercrime, drug trafficking, and human trafficking and migrant smuggling to organized crime, terrorism, financial crime, maritime crime, and war crimes, each explaining the nature of the crime and how forces work together against it. Useful for grounding in how each crime type works and how cross-border policing operates.

A portal managed by the Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), pulling publicly available migration statistics from official sources such as UN DESA and UNICEF into one place. Its thematic data overviews cover human trafficking, smuggling of migrants, migrant deaths and disappearances, forced displacement, irregular migration, and labour migration. It offers both a country-by-country world map and dashboards organised by theme. Useful for work that connects migration to trafficking and exploitation.

A premier source for high-quality experimental and quasi-experimental research in criminology and criminal justice. It contributes to the understanding, development and evaluation of evidence-based crime and justice policy, and spans an array of scientific disciplines concerned with crime and justice. Its content includes authoritative systematic reviews and research built on innovative and rigorous experimental methods. The journal works in partnership with the Division of Experimental Criminology of the American Society of Criminology, the Campbell Collaboration, and the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy. Useful when you need evidence on whether an intervention actually works, and on how that conclusion was established.

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is the research, development, and evaluation arm of the U.S. Department of Justice, publishing articles, journals, and reports from federally funded criminal justice research. It opens access to a criminal justice data archive drawing on more than 2,700 curated studies and data series, including large-scale datasets such as the National Crime Victimization Survey and the FBI Uniform Crime Reports. Its coverage runs across policing, forensic sciences, corrections, courts, victimization, and crime prevention. Use it when you need primary research or in-depth datasets from the US federal research agency itself.

The Our World in Data homicides page presents long-run and cross-country data on homicide and crime through interactive charts, drawing on UNODC, WHO, and IHME sources. It analyzes how homicide rates vary by country, age, sex, and weapon, and explains how the different data sources diverge and when each is the right one to use. Every chart and dataset is free under a Creative Commons license and embeddable elsewhere. Reach for it when you want to compare homicide rates across countries or trace long-term trends.

Hosted by Arizona State University, the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing keeps a large library of problem-oriented policing guides organized by specific crime and disorder problems, such as burglary and theft, robbery, gangs, alcohol and drug problems, and frauds. Each guide distills research and field experience into recommended responses tailored to one problem. Useful when you face a concrete local crime problem and want practical, research-backed responses rather than general theory.

The official website of the Royal Thai Police. Its publications menu includes a law section listing the Acts the police enforce, such as the Royal Thai Police Act B.E. 2565, the Land Traffic Act, the Immigration Act, and the Public Assembly Act, each downloadable as PDF or readable on the web. The public services menu gathers the channels citizens actually use, including police station information, online traffic tickets, case progress tracking, and the complaints system for police officers. A separate section maps the full organisational structure from national commissions down to provincial police divisions. Useful for citing the statutes Thai police work under, or identifying which unit handles what.

An open dataset on Thailand's Open Government Data portal (data.go.th), published by the Royal Thai Police and drawn from the CRIMES police station information system. It presents criminal case statistics across four groups: offences against life, body and sexual offences; property offences; special offences under specific Acts; and offences where the state is the injured party. Each group compares reported cases against arrests and breaks down to individual offences such as homicide, robbery, fraud, and narcotics. Files download as annual PDFs for 2020 to 2022 (B.E. 2563 to 2565), plus an XLSX of drug indicator statistics. The dataset is designated official public statistics under a Creative Commons Attribution licence, with the most recent year currently 2022. Useful when citing national crime figures directly from the Thai police source.

A journal providing comprehensive insights into the latest research and advancements in security and related topics. Its coverage includes cyber-based crimes such as cyber fraud and identity theft, and extends across diverse crime types and settings including cybercrime, workplace violence, and public space security. Alongside research it carries news, advice, and evidence-informed strategy for planning and managing security operations. It is affiliated with ASIS International and was founded in 1989. Useful for approaching crime from the angle of prevention and security management, for researchers and practitioners alike.

An open access preprint repository on SSRN devoted to criminal justice, the academic discipline concerning crime and the response to crime. It spans research on the criminal justice system, covering police, criminal courts and corrections, as well as broader criminological work. Its holdings go beyond research papers to include book chapters, PhD dissertations, course and teaching materials, presentations and posters, drawn from the disciplines that have traditionally studied crime and crime control together: law, sociology, psychology and forensic science. Its value lies in access to work at an early stage, before journal publication, which makes it useful for tracking where research in the field is heading. Note that some material here has not been peer reviewed, so publication status is worth checking before citing.

The website of the Technology Crime Suppression Centre under the Royal Thai Police, operated by the Cyber Crime Investigation Bureau. Its front page carries a running dashboard of cumulative losses from online crime, showing the number of cases, total damage in baht, the split between reports filed online and reports filed in person, the daily case average, and a ranked breakdown of the most common case types by percentage share, from goods and services scams and job scams through impersonation to financial and investment fraud. Beyond the statistics, the site is a working public service: filing a report online, submitting tips, checking whether an account is flagged as a mule account, and contacting officers, alongside a cyber safety section with educational material on scam tactics and warnings about currently circulating schemes. Useful for citing an official Thai overview of online crime.

The knowledge and publications collection of the Thailand Institute of Justice, a public organisation working with the United Nations on crime prevention and criminal justice. Reports, knowledge series and articles are gathered on a single page covering prison reform and global prison trends, the Bangkok Rules and the treatment of women prisoners, alternatives to imprisonment, access to justice, anti-corruption, and the use of open data in the justice system. Topic tags allow browsing by theme, and material appears in both Thai and English. Useful for work on Thai corrections and criminal justice within an international standards framework.

The United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) is the UN's research and training institute on crime and justice, working across six areas: transnational security threats and terrorism; criminal enterprises, illicit financial flows, and corrupt practices; violent extremism and radicalization; the responsible use of new technologies against crime; the rule of law and access to justice; and security governance. The site publishes research and policy proposals and runs training, including master's programmes and summer schools. Useful when you want in-depth analysis and policy framing rather than statistics.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is the UN's lead agency on crime and drugs. This portal opens its statistical datasets across a range of categories, covering intentional homicide, violent and sexual crime, drugs, corruption, firearms trafficking, trafficking in persons, wildlife trafficking, prison populations, and access to justice. Data can be browsed as country profiles, indicators, or microdata. Useful for any work that needs crime figures comparable across countries.

The regional office of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Its Publications page gathers regional threat assessments, surveys, and analyses covering transnational organized crime, scam centres, underground banking, casino money laundering, synthetic drugs, and human trafficking. Useful when you need primary reporting on crime in ASEAN and Thailand's neighbours.