The Criminal Network Perspective / 1: |
The Criminal Network Difference / I: |
Flexible Order / II: |
Centrality and Key Player Designations / III: |
Direct Centrality and Visibility |
Brokers as Key Players |
Seek, Rather than Assume, Structure / IV: |
Organization of the Book / V: |
Case Study Sources and Designs / 2: |
Case Selection and Access |
Case Study Descriptions |
Krebs' Terrorist Network |
Project Ciel |
Project Caviar |
Projects Siren and Togo |
Operation Springtime 2001 |
Street Gangs and Drug Distribution in Montreal North |
Designing the Criminal Networks |
The Matrix and the Sociogram |
Assembling the Final Network Representation |
Centrality and Analogous Network Measures |
In the Thick of Things |
In Between |
In the Thick of the Thick |
Less Efficiently In Between |
Localized Clustering |
Challenges in Criminal Network Analysis |
Clarity and Attributes in Relational Data |
Missing Data Beyond the Final Network Representation |
Missing Data Within the Final Network Representation |
Are Central Participants Simply Central Targets of a Police Investigation? |
Are Law-Enforcement Intercepted Networks Simply Failed Criminal Networks? |
Partnership Configurations in Illegal Drug-Importation / 3: |
Resource-Sharing in Crime |
Two Networks in One |
Direct and Indirect Connectivity Within the Ciel Network |
Conclusion |
The Efficiency-Security Trade-Off / 4: |
The Network's Objective and Time-to-Task |
Snakes and Clusters |
Centrality Issues and Distinctions |
Legitimate Strengths in Criminal Networks / 5: |
Legitimate Actors in Criminal Settings |
Differences Between Trafficker and Nontrafficker Subsets |
Seeds in the Network |
The Direction of Contact |
Discrete Participants and Pawns |
Law-Enforcement Disruption of a Drug-Importation Network / VI: |
Coding for Criminal Network Dynamics |
The Context of Control |
The Uniqueness of the Caviar Case |
Characteristics of the Overall Caviar Network |
Changes in the Caviar Network Across Investigative Phases |
Decentralization and Core Changes |
Disorder and Accountability |
Brokerage Qualifications in Ringing Scripts / 7: |
Crime Scripts and Flexibility |
Merging Crime Script and Social Network Frameworks |
The Case Study Design |
Determining Brokerage Qualifications |
Assessing Participant Removal Impact on Script Permutation |
Criminal Network Flexibility and Script Permutation |
Overall Scripts |
Networks Within the Scripts |
General Participant Removal and Impact |
The Broker Impact on Flexibility |
Nonbroker Impact on Flexibility |
Hells Angels in Springtime / 8: |
Hells Angels Inc. |
The Hells Angels Network in Operation Springtime |
Variations in Key Participant Status Across the Network |
Street Gang Presence in Drug-Distribution Operations / 9: |
Gangs and Flexible Order |
Past Research on "Gang Networks" |
Three Investigations, One Network |
Identifying Gang Members |
Single-Case Versus Overlapped-Cases Representations |
Where are the Gang Members? |
Summary and Extensions / 10: |
Extensions of the Criminal Network Perspective |
Assessing Change Within Disrupted Networks |
Content Analysis of Electronically Monitored Conversations |
Expanding on the Social Embeddedness of Network Participants |
Criminal Network Position and Individual Traits |
Criminal Networks and the Criminal Career |
Criminal Networks Beyond the Individual |
The Master Network |
Appendix |
References |
Index |
The Criminal Network Perspective / 1: |
The Criminal Network Difference / I: |
Flexible Order / II: |
Centrality and Key Player Designations / III: |
Direct Centrality and Visibility |
Brokers as Key Players |