RT Article
T1 The shaping of covert social networks: isolating the effects of secrecy
JF Trends in organized crime
VO 20
IS 1-2
SP 16
OP 30
A1 Fielding, Nigel 1950-
LA English
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1819092925
AB Secrecy amongst participants is widely regarded as a hallmark of organized crime. Accordingly, covertness is treated as an essential feature of organized crime networks and as one of the distinctive characteristics differentiating such networks from others. In other respects contemporary understandings of organized crime networks based on routine activities theory see strong parallels between criminal organizations and legitimate business organizations. Noting the scarcity of empirical evidence about covert networks and flaws in the conceptualization of how such networks form and operate, this article questions the basis for the assumption that covertness is a distinctive feature of organized crime networks.
NO Published: 13 May 2016
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 29-30
K1 Organized Crime
K1 Covert criminal networks
K1 Organized crime theory
DO 10.1007/s12117-016-9277-0