It's Not What You Know-It's Who You Know that Counts. Analysing Serious Crime Groups as Social Networks

By N. Coles. 2001

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Understanding individual behaviors within covert networks: the interplay of individual qualities, psychological predispositions, and network effects (2009, background): “Earlier work on criminal networks by, for instance, Sparrow (1991) and Baker and Faulkner (1993) has been followed by recent calls from a number of authors for a recognition of social network analysis in understanding illegal organizations (e.g., Chattoe and Hammill 2005; Coles 2001; Klerks 2001; ”
Study on centrality measures in social networks: a survey (2018, background): “Coles (2001) also analyzed crime groups as social network.”
Assessing Vulnerable and Strategic Positions in a Criminal Network (2010, background): “Coles (2001), Klerks (2001), and Williams (1998) reviewed past research on brokerage and concluded that the presence of multiple brokers in a criminal network is more likely in groups that indicate a higher degree of sophistication or organization.”
'The Appliance of Science?': The Theory and Practice of Crime Intelligence Analysis (2004, methodology): “6 For alternative models of the intelligence process, see Dintino and Martens (1983) and Godfrey and Harris (1971).”