Urban landscapes around the world feature the coexistence of stable drug markets and violence. However, the correlation between volumes of drug dealing and violence is frequently inconsistent across areas and time. In this work, we hypothesize that such inconsistency is due to the spurious nature of the relationship, and we pose that an important missing link in the transmission chain is given...
Collaboration is a fundamental feature of crime that is defined as organized. Despite considerable research focusing on collaboration within organized crime groups in recent years, only a few studies have examined cooperation between members of different groups or clans of large criminal organizations. Collaboration facilitates coordination and resource acquisition, yet it is challenged by the...
The UN Agenda 2030 highlights how corruption is one of the factors hindering sustainable development. However, to prevent and combat corruption, it is essential to deeply understand this latent phenomenon, which is not easy to measure. A step forward has been made by the Italian Anti-Corruption Authority, which provides the public with 70 indicators capable of measuring the risk of corruption...
This paper reports results from a project to develop a classification system for criminal groups that is more systematic and empirically based than the rather ad hoc collection of categories that is currently in use. The population of criminal groups to be classified was constructed from data on all co-offences reported by police in Canada during 2006-2009. These co-offences induce a 1-mode...
