This innovative collection of original essays showcases the use of social networks in the analysis and understanding of various forms of crime. More than any other past research endeavor, the seventeen chapters in this book apply to criminology the many conceptual and methodological options from social network analysis.
Crime and Networks is the only book of its kind that looks at the use of networks in understanding crime, and can be used for advanced undergraduate and beginner's graduate level courses in criminal justice and criminology.
Introduction Carlo Morselli / PART I: CO-OFFENDING NETWORKS / Chapter 1: The Importance of Studying Co-offending Networks for Criminological Theory and Policy Jean Marie McGloin and Holly Nguyen / Chapter 2: Sex and Age Homophily in Co-offending Networks: Opportunity or Preference?Sarah B. van Mastrigt and Peter J. Carrington / Chapter 3: The Evolution of a Drug Co-arrest Network Natalia Iwanski and Richard Frank / Chapter 4: Assessing the Core Membership of a Youth Gang from its Co-offending Network Martin Bouchard and Richard Konarski / PART II: ORGANIZED CRIME NETWORKS / Chapter 5: The Embedded and Multiplex Nature of Al Capone Andrew Papachristos and Chris Smith / Chapter 6: Snakeheads and the Cartwheel Network: Functional Fluidity as Opposed to Structural Flexibility Sheldon Zhang / Chapter 7: Illegal Networks or Criminal Organizations: Structure, Power and Facilitators in Cocaine Trafficking Structures Andrea Giménez-Salinas Framis / Chapter 8: Dismantling Criminal Networks: Can Node Attributes Play a Role? David A. Bright, Catherine Greenhill, and Natalya Levenkova / Chapter 9: Strategic Positioning in Mafia Networks Francesco Calderoni / Chapter 10: Drug Trafficking Networks in the World Economy Rémi Boivin / PART III: CYBERCRIME NETWORKS / Chapter 11: Skills and Trust: A Tour Inside the Hard Drives of Computer Hackers Benoit Dupont / Chapter 12: Information Exchange Paths in IRC Hacking Chatrooms David Décary-Hétu / Chapter 13: Usenet Newsgroups, Child Pornography, and the Role of Participants Francis Fortin / PART IV: ECONOMIC CRIME NETWORKS / Chapter 14: Pushing the Ponzi: The Rise and Fall of a Network Fraud Aili Malm, Andrea Schoepfer, Gisela Bichler, and Neil Boyd / Chapter 15: Breakdown of Brokerage: Crisis and Collapse in the Watergate Conspiracy Robert R. Faulkner and Eric Cheney / PART V: EXTREMIST NETWORKS / Chapter 16: Terrorist Network Adaptation to a Changing Environment Sean F. Everton and Dan Cunningham / Chapter 17: Understanding Transnational Crime in Conflict-Affected Environments: The Democratic Republic of the Congo's Illicit Minerals Trading Network Georgia Lysaght
