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Criminal networks: actors, mechanisms, and structures Diviak, Tomas
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10.33612/diss.117225427
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Diviak, T. (2020). Criminal networks: actors, mechanisms, and structures. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. https://doi.org/10.33612/diss.117225427
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Propositions
accompanying the dissertation
Criminal Networks: Actors, Mechanisms, and Structures
byTomáš Diviák
1. The social network perspective is well-suited to the study of organized crime.
(chapter 2) 2. Political corruption networks may be fruitfully represented as multiplex networks and they may exhibit a core-periphery structure.
(chapter 3) 3. Analytical sociology and statistical models for network data are synergistic as they both aim at identification of underlying mechanisms in networks.
(chapter 4) 4. Profit-driven criminal networks have more structural similarities with their ideology-driven counterparts than they have differences.
(chapter 5) 5. Actors in criminal networks respond to disruption by law-enforcement. Sometimes in an unexpected way, such as when they become even more radical and active aftwerwards.
(chapter 6) 6. Big data or little data: what we need is good data.
- Garry Robins (chapter 7)
7. There is considerable evidence that pre-existing ties, triadic closure, and core-periphery structure are important in criminal networks. However, their exact function needs to be further investigated.
(chapter 8) 8. I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
