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Subject(s)

• Criminology [Browse]
• Criminals—Social networks [Browse]
• Criminal behavior [Browse]
• Crime—Sociological aspects [Browse]

Related name

• Morselli, Carlo [Browse]

Series

• Criminology and justice studies [More in this series]
• Criminology and justice studies series [More in this series]

Summary note

One of the more innovative fields that has been steadily on the rise in criminology over the last decade consists of the application of the social network framework to various forms of crime phenomena. Crime and Networks combines the most recent empirical research contributions from the top scholars in this area. More than any other past research endeavor, the seventeen chapters in this book transpose to criminology the many conceptual and methodological options from the social network analysis repertoire. Crime and Networks pushes the sociology of crime to new levels by introducing the most advanced assessments of the structural and organizational features of crime. -- from back cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Part 1. Co-offending networks
• The importance of studying co-offending networks for criminological theory and policy / Jean Marie McGloin and Holly Nguyen
• Sex and age homophily in co-offending networks: opportunity or preference? / Sarah B. van Mastrigt and Peter J. Carrington
• The evolution of a drug co-arrest network / Natalia Iwanski and Richard Frank
• Assessing the core membership of a youth gang from its co-offending network / Martin Bouchard and Richard Konarski
• Part 2. Organized crime networks
• The embedded and multiplex nature of Al Capone / Andrew V. Papachristos and Chris M. Smith
• Snakeheads and the cartwheel network: functional fluidity as opposed to structural flexibility / Sheldon Zhang
• Illegal networks or criminal organizations: structure, power, and facilitators in cocaine trafficking structures / Andrea Giménez-Salinas Framis
• Dismantling criminal networks: can node attributes play a role? / David A. Bright, Catherine Greenhill, and Natalya Levenkova
• Strategic positioning in Mafia networks / Francesco Calderoni
• Drug trafficking networks in the world economy / Rémi Boivin
• Part 3. Cybercrime networks
• Skills and trust: a tour inside the hard drives of computer hackers / Benoit Dupont
• Information exchange paths in IRC hacking chat rooms / David Décary-Hétu
• Usenet newsgroups, child pornography, and the role of participants / Francis Fortin
• Part 4. Economic crime networks
• Pushing the Ponzi: the rise and fall of a network fraud / Aili Malm, Andrea Schoepfer, Gisela Bichler, and Neil Boyd
• Breakdown of brokerage: crisis and collapse in the Watergate conspiracy / Robert R. Faulkner and Eric Cheney
• Part 5. Extremist networks
• Terrorist network adaptation to a changing environment / Sean F. Everton and Dan Cunningham
• Understanding transnational crime in conflict-affected environments: the democratic republic of the Congo's illicit minerals trading network / Georgia Lysaght.

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ISBN

• 9780415644532 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
• 0415644534 ((hardback ; : alk. paper))
• 9780415710503 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
• 0415710502 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2013015127

OCLC

841206046

Other standard number

• 40022900618

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