Crime and networks / edited by Carlo Morselli.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Gimenez-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 / Remi 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 Decary-Hetu -- 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.