"Legitimate Strengths in Criminal Networks"
Extending from the organizing crime perspective, we study how legitimate world actors contribute to structuring a criminal network. This focus also underscores the facilitating role that some participants have in criminal settings. Based on a case study of an illegal drug importation network that wa...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2006
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Crime, law and social change
Year: 2006, Volume: 45, Issue: 3, Pages: 185-200 |
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| Summary: | Extending from the organizing crime perspective, we study how legitimate world actors contribute to structuring a criminal network. This focus also underscores the facilitating role that some participants have in criminal settings. Based on a case study of an illegal drug importation network that was monitored by law-enforcement investigators over a two-year period, we find that although most legitimate actors (or non-traffickers) had nominal roles and contributed minimally to the criminal network's structure, a minority of these actors were critical to the network in two ways: (1) they were active in bringing other participants (including traffickers) into the network; and (2) they were influential directors of relationships with both non-traffickers and traffickers. The presence of such influential participants from legitimate occupational settings illustrates how upperworld figures can facilitate criminal enterprise beyond the mere contributions of legitimate status and expertise. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 198-200 |
| ISSN: | 1573-0751 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10611-006-9034-4 |
