Dr. Thomas Grund (School of Sociology, UCD) just published a new article on criminal networks. The article can be accessed freely here.
Grund, T. and Morselli, C. (20017) Overlapping crime: Stability and specialization of co-offending relationships. Social Networks, Volume 51, October 2017, Pages 14-22.
Abstract:
Dyadic analyses of relationships between criminals have mostly ignored the multiplex nature of criminal ties. This study attempts to provide a more complete assessment of co-offending networks by incorporating the different types of crime that relate individuals with each other. Drawing on a large dataset of arrests in Quebec between 2003 and 2009, we focus on co-offending stability and specialization and illustrate how co-offending networks based on different types of criminal activities overlap. We portray a pattern of co-offending, which extends debate of criminal specialization/versatility to the dyadic level. Our study illustrates the ways in which the frequency and spectrum of crime include a relational component. More generally, the article emphasizes the need to consider the semantics of network ties, and further, the association between different types of networks, which ultimately offers a reassessment of social structure.
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