Criminal Network Analysis: Applications of Social Network Analysis to the Study of Co-Offending, Gangs and Violence

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

The analysis of criminal networks is slowly but surely gaining a foothold in criminology. This panel brings together researchers from Canada, Norway, and the United States who are tackling important theoretical and policy issues in criminology using social network analysis (SNA). Each paper draws from fundamental concepts of SNA and demonstrates their application to the study of crime: navigating network multiplexity in organized crime, immigrant access to criminal capital through co-offending networks, the "friendship paradox" and the contagion of violence through social networks, and the influence of external shocks such as gang injunctions on co-offending networks.

Sub Unit

• Area XII. Methodology / 61. Advances in Quantitative Methodology

Individual Presentations

• The Friendship Paradox Can Get you Killed: The Predictive Value of Network Centrality on Gunshot Victimization - Yanick Charette, Université Laval; Andrew V. Papachristos, Yale University

• The Value of Multiplex Ties Bridging Legitimate and Illegitimate Networks - Mitch Mcdonald, Simon Fraser University; Martin Bouchard, Simon Fraser University; Andrew Wright, Criminal Intelligence Services of Alberta

• Co-Offending Among Immigrants in Norway - Synove Andersen, Statistics Norway

• The Influence of Gang Injunctions on the Structure of Co-Offending Networks and Police Recording Practices in the Field - Jason Gravel, University of California, Irvine

Chairs

• Martin Bouchard, Simon Fraser University

• Jason Gravel, University of California, Irvine

Discussant

• Carlo Morselli, University of Montreal