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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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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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(Accepted manuscript, pdf, 664.8KB)
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1016/j.socnet.2020.03.002
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- 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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0378-8733
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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1107249
- Local pid:
- pubs:1107249
- Deposit date:
- 2020-05-28
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- Elsevier B.V.
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- © 2020 Elsevier B.V.
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- This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Elsevier at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socnet.2020.03.002
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