Drug trade-related violence has escalated dramatically in Mexico since 2007, and recent
years have also witnessed large-scale efforts to combat trafficking, spearheaded by Mexico's …

I examine the post‐war economic development of two regions in southern Italy exposed to
mafia activity after the 1970s and apply synthetic control methods to estimate their economic …

Politically-driven corruption is a pervasive challenge for development, but evidence of its
welfare effects are scarce. Using data from a major rural road construction programme in …

With weak law‐enforcement institutions, a positive shock to the value of natural resources
may increase demand for private protection and opportunities for rent appropriation through …

Abstract This paper uses Pires'(Sociologia Problemas E Práticas 100: 41–63. 2022)
analytical framework to analyse the power and domination relationships that govern the …

Understanding whether and how connections between agents (networks) such as declared
friendships in classrooms, transactions between firms, and extended family connections …

Compared to other types of social networks, criminal networks present particularly hard
challenges, due to their strong resilience to disruption, which poses severe hurdles to Law …

A network approach helps us better specify and model collaboration among people involved
in organized crime. The focus on collaboration raises the boundary specification problem …

In this paper we present the results of our study of Sicilian Mafia organizations using social
network analysis. The study investigates the network structure of a Mafia syndicate …

Social Network Analysis (SNA) is an interdisciplinary science that focuses on discovering
the patterns of individuals interactions. In particular, practitioners have used SNA to describe …