Crime and Networks

Carlo Morselli is a Professor at the École de criminologie, Université de Montréal and Deputy Director of the International Centre for Comparative Criminology. His research focuses on criminal networks and organized crime, with recent studies aimed specifically at illegal firearm markets, synthetic drug markets, collusion in the construction industry, and denunciation. In 2011, he was awarded the Outstanding Publication Award from the International Association for the Study of Organized Crime (IASOC) for his book Inside Criminal Networks (Springer, 2009). He is also the author of Contacts, Opportunities, and Criminal Enterprise (University of Toronto Press, 2005) and a series of articles that have been published in Criminology; Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency; Critical Criminology; Crime, Law, and Social Change; and Social Networks. Since 2011, he has served as the Editor-in-Chief for the journal Global Crime.

"This edited volume of social network research in criminology has been a long time coming within social network analysis (SNA)…the book is complete enough to share a curriculum around crime networks, either as a special topics course in a generalist sociology department or as a core course within a criminology/criminal justice degree program. As a resource book, it is priceless, not only for the thoroughness of topics, but also for the invaluable bibliographies included in each entry…Highly recommended." – CHOICE

• 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