It's not what you know -: It's who you know that counts.: Analysing serious crime groups as social networks
It's not what you know -: It's who you know that counts.: Analysing serious crime groups as social networks
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DOI：
10.1093/bjc/41.4.580
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发表时间：
2001-09-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Coles, N
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作者：
Coles, N
本文提请注意犯罪学家在犯罪网络调查，特别是有组织犯罪研究中未能采用社会网络分析技术和概念。它认为，此类技术为寻求分析关系数据的犯罪学家提供了显着的潜在优势，同时也认识到在严重犯罪研究中获得的此类数据的某些方面隐含的方法学局限性。我们对 25 多年前发表的三个不同的叙述进行了研究，并提出，它们共同代表了一个概念模型，为广泛的犯罪网络如何成功运作提供了解释。该模型如果与社交网络分析技术一起使用，有望在理解英国严重犯罪网络方面取得重大进展。
This paper draws attention to the failure by criminologists to adopt Social Network Analysis techniques and concepts in the investigation of criminal networks, particularly in the study of organized crime. It argues that such techniques offer significant potential advantages to criminologists seeking to analyse relational data, whilst nonetheless recognizing the methodological limitations implicit in certain aspects of such data obtained in serious crime studies. Three differing accounts, published more than 25 years ago, are examined and, it is suggested, collectively represent a conceptual model offering an explanation as to how extensive criminal networks operate successfully. This model, if employed together with social network analysis techniques, promises significant progress towards the understanding of serious crime networks in the United Kingdom.