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Studying organized crime networks: Data sources, boundaries and the limits of structural measures

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Network studies of organized crime (OC) normally explore two key relational issues: the internal structure of groups and the interactions among groups. The paper first discusses in depth two data sources that have been used to address these questions -- phone wiretaps and police-generated “events”– and reviews issues of validity, reliability and sampling. Next, it discusses challenges related to OC network data in general, focusing on the ‘double boundary specification’ problem and the time s...

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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1016/j.socnet.2020.03.002

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
Sociology
Sub department:
Sociology
Role:
Author
Publisher:
Elsevier Publisher's website
Journal:
Social Networks Journal website
Volume:
69
Pages:
149-159
Publication date:
2020-05-26
Acceptance date:
2020-03-19
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ISSN:
0378-8733
Language:
English
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Pubs id:
1107249
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pubs:1107249
Deposit date:
2020-05-28

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