Resilience in sophisticated financial crime networks: a social network analysis of the Madoff Investment Scheme

Despite numerous investigations and studies, the resilience of Madoff’s scheme from at least the 1970s until its collapse in 2008 is poorly understood. This study applies social network analysis (SNA) to the Madoff Investment Scheme in order to identify key factors which support resilience in networ...

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Authors: Hardy, John (Author) ; Bell, Peter (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2020
In: Crime prevention and community safety
Year: 2020, Volume: 22, Issue: 3, Pages: 223-247
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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