当加密失败:合成贩毒网络幕后一瞥

IF 1.4 Q2 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY Global Crime Pub Date : 2022-04-03 DOI:10.1080/17440572.2022.2086125
M. Soudijn, Irma J. Vermeulen, Wouter van der Leest
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没收加密电话提供商的服务器导致检索数百万条关于犯罪分子之间公开讨论的秘密活动的短信。它提供了一个独特的窗口来了解严重的有组织犯罪和相关人员。在这篇文章中,社会网络分析进行了帐户谁沟通合成毒品贩运。帐户(N = 4,158)和消息线程(12,085)的绝对数量允许对所涉及的网络的结构特征进行中观层次的分析。有三个发现引人注目。首先,大多数活跃在合成毒品市场的账户(58%)涉及多种毒品贩运。其次,四分之三的账户在一个巨大的组件中相互关联,导致犯罪的小世界效应。第三,网络似乎是稳健的。因此,中央账户的移除几乎不会对整个网络产生任何影响。
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When encryption fails: a glimpse behind the curtain of synthetic drug trafficking networks
ABSTRACT The confiscation of the server of an encrypted telephone provider resulted in the retrieval of millions of text messages about covert activities that were overtly discussed between criminals. It provided a unique window into serious organised crime and the people involved. In this article, a social network analysis was carried out on accounts who communicated about synthetic drug trafficking. The sheer number of accounts (N = 4,158) and messages threads (12,085) allows for a meso level analysis of the structural characteristics of the networks involved. Three findings stand out. Firstly, the majority (58%) of the accounts active in the synthetic drug market is involved in poly-drug trafficking. Secondly, three-quarters of all accounts are interconnected in a giant component, resulting in a criminal small-world effect. Thirdly, the network appears to be robust. As a consequence, the removal of central accounts will hardly have any impact on the network as a whole.
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Global Crime
Global Crime CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-
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期刊介绍: Global Crime is a social science journal devoted to the study of crime broadly conceived. Its focus is deliberately broad and multi-disciplinary and its first aim is to make the best scholarship on crime available to specialists and non-specialists alike. It endorses no particular orthodoxy and draws on authors from a variety of disciplines, including history, sociology, criminology, economics, political science, anthropology and area studies. The editors welcome contributions on any topic relating to crime, including organized criminality, its history, activities, relations with the state, its penetration of the economy and its perception in popular culture.
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