Category: Academic papers

Schaefer, D. R., Davidson, K. M., Haynie, D. L., & Bouchard, M. (2020). Network integration within a prison-based therapeutic community. Social Networks, 64, 16-28.

| Categories: Academic papers, Social Networks and Crime

Prison-based therapeutic communities (TCs) are a widespread, effective way to help incarcerated individuals address substance abuse problems. The TC philosophy is grounded in an explicitly relational paradigm that entails building community and conditioning residents to increasingly take responsibility for leadership therein. Although TCs are based on cultivating a network that continuously integrates new residents, many…

Bouchard, M., Soudijn, M., & Reuter, P. (2020). Conflict Management in High-Stakes Illegal Drug Transactions. The British Journal of Criminology, 1-20.

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| Categories: Academic papers, Illicit Drug Markets, Selected - Illicit Drug Markets

We draw from aspects of Black’s theory of conflict management to (1) provide a description of the types of disputes occurring at the highest levels of the drug trade and (2) examine whether conflicts that end in violence differed from those that found a peaceful resolution. A mixed-methods approach was used to analyse 33 incidents…

Bouchard, M. (2020). Collaboration and Boundaries in Organized Crime: A Network Perspective. Crime and Justice, 49(1).

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| Categories: Academic papers, Gangs and Organized Crime, Selected - Gangs and Organized Crime

A network approach helps us better specify and model collaboration among people involved in organized crime. The focus on collaboration raises the boundary specification problem: Where do criminal organizations start, where do they end, and who is involved? Traditional approaches sometimes assume the existence of simple, rigid structures when complexity and fluidity are the norms….

Kusz, J., & Bouchard, M. (2019). Nymphet or Lolita? A Gender Analysis of Online Child Pornography Websites. Deviant Behavior, 1-9.

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| Categories: Academic papers, Online Networks

Previous research on child pornography has primarily focused on the consumption and distribution of the material – the consumer side. In this study, we turn the focus on the content of child pornography websites. While some research assessed the content, there was little consideration of gender. This paper assesses whether gender is important in correlating…

Bouchard, M., Morselli, C., Macdonald, M., Gallupe, O., Zhang, S., & Farabee, D. (2019). Estimating Risks of Arrest and Criminal Populations: Regression Adjustments to Capture–Recapture Models. Crime & Delinquency, 65(13), 1767-1797.

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| Categories: Academic papers, Illicit Drug Markets, Selected - Illicit Drug Markets

The size of criminal populations is unknown, and policy decisions are typically based only on the number of offenses and offenders that come to the attention of the criminal justice system. However, the size of criminal populations may follow different trends than what is observed in official data. We use a regression-adjusted capture–recapture model to…

Levey, P., & Bouchard, M. (2019). The emergence of violent narratives in the life-course trajectories of online forum participants. Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice & Criminology, 6(3), 1-28.

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| Categories: Academic papers, Online Networks, Selected - Online networks

Online discussion forums have been identified as an online social milieu that may facilitate the radicalization process, or the development of violent narratives for a minority of participants, notably youth. Yet, very little is known on the nature of the conversations youth have online, the emotions they convey, and whether or how the sentiments expressed…

Aldridge, J., & Bouchard, M. (2019). Leveraging the value of online data and methods: drug policy research at the cutting edge. International Journal of Drug Policy.

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| Categories: Academic papers, Illicit Drug Markets

Is the online domain really so terribly important for drug policy researchers to engage with in order to study drugs and drug policy? Is illicit drug use not, after all, an ‘offline’ activity enacted by people with their offline identities as they buy, sell and consume – not digital – but physical psychoactive substances? With…