The efficiency/security trade-off in criminal networks

By Carlo Morselli, Cynthia Giguère, Katia Petit. Soc. Networks, 2007

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Understanding individual behaviors within covert networks: the interplay of individual qualities, psychological predispositions, and network effects (2009, background): “most frequently discussed for illegal networks is how the structure supports both of the dual purposes of covertness and collaboration (e.g. Baker and Faulkner 1993; Morselli et al. 2007).”
The Relative Ineffectiveness of Criminal Network Disruption (2014, background): “Non-redundant and compartmentalized ways of communication are applied, keeping these central key players highly concealed from direct involvement within the value chain 7,10,12,14,15,47 .”