Category: Social Networks and Crime

Bouchard, M., Konarski, R. (2014). Assessing the core membership of a youth gang from its co-offending network. Pp. 81-93 in C. Morselli (Ed.). Crime and Networks. Criminology and Justice Series. New York: Routledge.

The dynamic and sometimes diffuse nature of membership make gang boundaries sometimes difficult to discern for law enforcement officials or researchers, and even for members themselves. The current study draws on social network analysis of co-offending data to assess its utility in identifying the “core” membership of a youth gang active in a rural region…

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Nash, R., Bouchard, M., Malm, A. (2013). Investing in people: Social networks in the diffusion of a large-scale fraud. Social Networks, 35, 686-698.

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This paper draws from social network analysis and diffusion theory to study the case of a mortgage fraud that spread undetected for five years in British Columbia, Canada. The fraud is studied from the point of view of 559 victims who unknowingly invested in the Ponzi scheme which defrauded 2285 investors for a total of…

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Bouchard, M. (2012). Criminal networks in a transnational context. Pp. 79-84. In C. Leuprecht, T. Hataley, K. R. Nossal (Eds). Evolving transnational threats and border security: A new research agenda. Martello Paper Series, no 37. Centre for International and Defence Policy, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

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Frank, R., Westlake, B., Bouchard, M. (2010). The structure and content of online child exploitation networks. Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI-KDD 2010).

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The emergence of the Internet has provided people with the ability to find and communicate with others of common interests. Unfortunately, those involved in the practices of child exploitation have also received the same benefits. Although law enforcement continues its efforts to shut down websites dedicated to child exploitation, the problem remains uncurbed. Despite this,…

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