Criminal networks
A Talk by Pedro Sousa , Professor David Bright , Ana Guerreiro , Philip Jones , Professor Anna Sergi and Filipa Silva
About this Talk
In this session, David Bright will deliver a presentation on the topic of co-offending networks among OMCG members, exploring the nature and extent of co-offending among these members and the role of high-harm members within these networks. Pedro Sousa and Ana Guerreiro will present the results of a sentencing study on organized crime, which will respond to the question: In what extent judicial decisions on organized crime groups cases consider the centrality power of its members inside the criminal network?. Filipa Silva will present the outcomes of a study focused on an organized crime group acting in Portugal, demonstrating how criminal investigations can profit from the application of Social Network Analysis techniques. Anna Sergi will present her article ‘Mafia Borderland: hybridity, isomorphism and survival of Italian-American mafias in the Niagara region between US and Canada’, which investigates the current status of Italian-American mafias in North America. The session will conclude with a presentation by Philip Jones, who will examine the impact of illegal market and governance shocks on organized criminal group dynamics.
About The Speakers
Deakin University, Deakin University
Professor David Bright is a criminologist and forensic psychologist with the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia.
University of Essex
Professor at the University of Essex in the UK where she lectures on criminology, organised crime and crimes of globalisation.