Carlo Morselli
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 635615 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Carlo Morselli |
| PRENOMES | Carlo |
| SOBRENOME | Morselli |
| ASSINATURA | MORSELLI C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Université de Montréal |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 43 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 283 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Offending Frequency and Responses to Illegal Monetary Incentives
Reprint of
Using social network analysis to study crime
The use of social network analysis to study groups of offenders engaged in illicit activities such as drug trafficking and terrorism has grown in popularity over the last three decades. Along with such growth, however, researchers have been confronted with a suite of challenges related to the use of data extracted from criminal justice records. In this paper, we review these challenges through a discussion of the extant empirical literature utili…
The Social Network of Victims of Domestic Violence
This study aims to understand when and how domestic violence victims' relational autonomy changes and to propose an intervention model stemming from the findings. Using qualitative and social network analysis, we study the actions of network members, as well as changing features of victims' networks. Results show that victims base their decisions on their expectations toward others, and on a desire to preserve their autonomy. Their relational aut…
L’évolution du réseau social des femmes victimes de violence conjugale
Cet article vise à analyser l’évolution du réseau social des femmes victimes de violence conjugale en référence au concept d’autonomie relationnelle, défini comme une liberté de choisir parmi un ensemble diversifié d’options. Des entrevues individuelles ont été réalisées avec 30 femmes victimes de violence conjugale, permettant de dégager quatre étapes à travers lesquelles leur réseau change dans le temps : la relation violente, la rupture, le su…
Network similarity and collusion
Assessing market competition and vendors’ size and scope on AlphaBay
Sociabilité carcérale et réinsertion
Prenant appui sur les recherches actuelles dans le traitement de la délinquance et mobilisant l’analyse des réseaux sociaux, cet article interroge l’influence de la sociabilité carcérale sur les perceptions individuelles à l’égard de la réinsertion. Les résultats d’une enquête menée auprès de 22 résidents d’une maison de transition située à Montréal suggèrent que plus le niveau de sociabilité carcérale est élevé, plus les résidents ont une vision…
Overlapping crime
Introduction to the special issue on Crime and Networks
The independent’s edge in an illegal drug distribution setting
Bid-rigging networks and state-corporate crime in the construction industry
Criminal network vulnerabilities and adaptations
The current paper aimed to investigate the effectiveness of five law enforcement interventions in disrupting and dismantling criminal networks. We tested three law enforcement interventions that targeted social capital in criminal networks (betweenness, degree and cut-set) and two interventions that targeted human capital (actors who possess money and those who possess precursor chemicals). These five interventions are compared with each other an…
Les réseaux criminels
Si l'expression « réseau social » fait son apparition dans le langage populaire en même temps que les Facebook, LinkedIn et autres plateformes d'échange, le concept est présent dans les sciences sociales depuis au moins les années 1930. De fait, les premières applications formelles de techniques d'analyse des réseaux sociaux (ARS), notamment dans les travaux sur les prisons et les maisons de réforme, sont apparues à la fin des années 1990. Elles …
Rethinking Compassion Fatigue Through the Lens of Professional Identity
Compassion fatigue is currently the dominant model in work-related stress studies that explain the consequences of caring for others on child-protection workers. Based on a deterministic approach, this model excludes the role of cognition a priori and a posteriori in the understanding of the impact of caregiving or providing social support. By integrating the notion of professional identity, this article adds a subjective perspective to the compa…
Promises kept? A meta-analysis of gang membership prevention programs
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to synthesize the effects of gang prevention programs on gang membership. Design/methodology/approach – The authors conducted a systematic literature review across 19 bibliographic databases and a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of these strategies. Findings – The database search resulted in 3,850 hits. Of the 162 studies that were screened in full, six involved a prevention program with outcomes commensu…
A method to detect criminal organizations from police data
Definitional problems in the area of organized crime have traditionally led to measurement problems that trickle down the criminal justice system. This study quantifies the broad conception of organized crime in the Canadian legal context and examines the types of crimes in which criminal organizations (and organized criminals) are involved. To estimate incidents potentially related to organized crime, we combine police-reported data from Montrea…
Cannabis cultivation in Quebec
Networks within networks
Understanding criminal networks can aid in the identification of key players and important relationships within the network. We examined multiple, directed link types in a criminal network. Eight distinct link types were identified, each one related to the exchange of a particular resource (e.g. drugs, money). The analyses focused on the eight link-type network layers and a merged network representing links across all eight layers. We were able t…
Coercion, Control, and Cooperation in a Prostitution Ring
Coercion and control are key components of the dominant narrative on sex trafficking, but the power and exchange relations between some of the key players in trafficking have not been carefully examined. This study is based on electronic surveillance data from a two-year police investigation of a prostitution network in Montreal. All of the prostitutes in the network had initially been recruited when they were minors. Whereas most of the writing …
Modeling dynamic social networks using spectral embedding
Opportunistic Structures of Organized Crime
Crime and Networks
Crime facilitation purposes of social networking sites
There have been growing claims in media circles and law-enforcement settings that street gangs and criminal groups are turning to Internet-based social networking sites for various reasons ranging from the showcasing of their images and exploits to the suspected recruitment of members. The present study investigates whether such a trend is, in fact, in place. The presence of street gangs on these Internet sites is referred to as cyberbanging. Whi…
Keeping promises
Brokerage Qualifications in Ringing Operations
Brokers are fundamental for maintaining flexibility in the networks that embed criminal activities. Our study aims at offering more precision on this key issue by examining the impact that brokers may have on crime‐commission processes. To do so, we analyze two stolen‐vehicle exportation (or ringing) operations within a framework that merges crime‐script analysis and social‐network analysis. We assess how diverse degrees of brokerage are distribu…
Criminal Achievement, Offender Networks and the Benefits of Low Self‐control
This study follows recent research on criminal earnings and examines the impact of underlying traits (low self‐control) and personal organization features (nonredundant networking) on the criminal earnings of a sample of incarcerated offenders previously involved in market and predatory crimes. Controlling for various background factors (age, noncriminal income, lambda and costs of doing crime), both low self‐control and nonredundant networking i…
Law-Enforcement Disruption of a Drug Importation Network
This study focuses on the structure and evolution of a drug importation network that operated from Montreal, Canada, and that was the target of an extensive 2-year criminal investigation. The investigation was atypical in that it followed a seize-but-do-not-arrest strategy—while 11 drug shipments were seized by police throughout this period, arrests were never made until the final phase of the investigation. Such a case offers a rare opportunity …
Mentors and Criminal Achievement
Much of the research focusing on conventional occupations concludes that mentored individuals are more successful in their careers than those who are not mentored. Early research in criminology made a similar claim. Yet contemporary criminology has all but ignored mentors. We investigate this oversight, drawing on Sutherland's insights on tutelage and criminal maturation and incorporating ideas on human and social capital. We argue that mentors p…
Patterns in Criminal Achievement
Even though intense cultural pressures for monetary success and an institutional social structure dominated by the economy are viewed in anomie theory as stimulating criminal motivations and accounting for criminal behavior with an instrumental character, patterns in criminal earnings have not attracted much scholarly and empirical attention. Wilson and Abrahamse's (1992) analysis of Rand's second inmate survey concluded that most inmates intervi…
Coercion, Control, and Cooperation in a Prostitution Ring
Coercion and control are key components of the dominant narrative on sex trafficking, but the power and exchange relations between some of the key players in trafficking have not been carefully examined. This study is based on electronic surveillance data from a two-year police investigation of a prostitution network in Montreal. All of the prostitutes in the network had initially been recruited when they were minors. Whereas most of the writing …
Criminal network vulnerabilities and adaptations
The current paper aimed to investigate the effectiveness of five law enforcement interventions in disrupting and dismantling criminal networks. We tested three law enforcement interventions that targeted social capital in criminal networks (betweenness, degree and cut-set) and two interventions that targeted human capital (actors who possess money and those who possess precursor chemicals). These five interventions are compared with each other an…
The mobility of criminal groups
This article reviews evidence from past research that addresses diverse themes and theories regarding shifts and patterns in the mobility of criminal groups. Our main objective is to identify push and pull factors that will help us understand how and why criminal groups, organisations or general organised crime patterns are present across a variety of settings (i.e. geographical locations, criminal markets and legitimate industries). Push factors…
Networks within networks
Understanding criminal networks can aid in the identification of key players and important relationships within the network. We examined multiple, directed link types in a criminal network. Eight distinct link types were identified, each one related to the exchange of a particular resource (e.g. drugs, money). The analyses focused on the eight link-type network layers and a merged network representing links across all eight layers. We were able t…
Délinquance, performance et capital social
Cet article soutient la thèse selon laquelle le capital social des délinquants leur permet d’augmenter de manière significative les revenus qu’ils retirent de leurs activités. La démarche utilisée pour rendre opératoire cette proposition a pour effet de renouveler de différentes façons la sociologie criminelle : il ne suffit pas de savoir si un délinquant « fréquente » d’autres délinquants ou non, il faut mesurer la qualité relationnelle et instr…
Reprint of
Friends with(out) benefits
Research shows that co-offending has contradictory effects on rates of re-arrest. On the one hand, group offending may be riskier: for example, co-offenders might be targeted by police or might snitch to protect themselves. Criminal networks may also have indirect effects: offenders embedded in criminal networks commit more offences and thus should have a higher risk of being arrested at some point. On the other hand, networks generate steady cri…
A method to detect criminal organizations from police data
Definitional problems in the area of organized crime have traditionally led to measurement problems that trickle down the criminal justice system. This study quantifies the broad conception of organized crime in the Canadian legal context and examines the types of crimes in which criminal organizations (and organized criminals) are involved. To estimate incidents potentially related to organized crime, we combine police-reported data from Montrea…
Scrutinizing Rico
The Social Network of Victims of Domestic Violence
This study aims to understand when and how domestic violence victims' relational autonomy changes and to propose an intervention model stemming from the findings. Using qualitative and social network analysis, we study the actions of network members, as well as changing features of victims' networks. Results show that victims base their decisions on their expectations toward others, and on a desire to preserve their autonomy. Their relational aut…
Homme à femmes
La présente étude se penche sur les rôles, les interactions et l’échange des ressources au sein d’un réseau de prostitution démantelé par un service de police d’une grande ville canadienne. Plutôt que d’inscrire le débat dans la perspective de l’exploitation des prostituées par les proxénètes, l’analyse de ce réseau est réalisée dans une perspective du partage des ressources, qui sont plus souvent utilisées pour d’autres types de réseaux criminel…
Sociabilité carcérale et réinsertion
Prenant appui sur les recherches actuelles dans le traitement de la délinquance et mobilisant l’analyse des réseaux sociaux, cet article interroge l’influence de la sociabilité carcérale sur les perceptions individuelles à l’égard de la réinsertion. Les résultats d’une enquête menée auprès de 22 résidents d’une maison de transition située à Montréal suggèrent que plus le niveau de sociabilité carcérale est élevé, plus les résidents ont une vision…
Promises kept? A meta-analysis of gang membership prevention programs
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to synthesize the effects of gang prevention programs on gang membership. Design/methodology/approach – The authors conducted a systematic literature review across 19 bibliographic databases and a meta-analysis of the effectiveness of these strategies. Findings – The database search resulted in 3,850 hits. Of the 162 studies that were screened in full, six involved a prevention program with outcomes commensu…
Modeling dynamic social networks using spectral embedding
Analyse de la structure sociale des conflits et des alliances intergangs
Cette étude propose un cadre analytique qui permet d’étudier le réseau social des gangs montréalais, dont certains s’identifient aux deux grandes coalitions étatsuniennes : lesBloods(les rouges) et lesCrips(les bleus). L’objectif de cette recherche est de décrire la structure de ce réseau social en s’intéressant d’abord à la constitution et à l’organisation interne de ces gangs et, ensuite, aux dynamiques relationnelles qui les unissent une fois …
L’évolution du réseau social des femmes victimes de violence conjugale
Cet article vise à analyser l’évolution du réseau social des femmes victimes de violence conjugale en référence au concept d’autonomie relationnelle, défini comme une liberté de choisir parmi un ensemble diversifié d’options. Des entrevues individuelles ont été réalisées avec 30 femmes victimes de violence conjugale, permettant de dégager quatre étapes à travers lesquelles leur réseau change dans le temps : la relation violente, la rupture, le su…
La violence et la résolution de conflits chez des trafiquants de cocaïne
La violence est souvent regardée comme le moyen de prédilection des trafiquants dans la résolution de conflits dans le trafic de drogue. On ne remet que rarement en question cette évidence. La présente recherche analyse les récits des événements conflictuels vécus par douze hommes incarcérés pour trafic de cocaïne. Des 53 conflits discutés par ces trafiquants, 48 ont abouti à une résolution non violente qui n’exclut pas pour autant les menaces. C…
Faits et conspirations
L’organisation de systèmes d’opérations financières suspectes diffèrerait souvent de l’image présentée par les scandales qu’ils suscitent. Des formes de criminalité sont confondues avec des schèmes de nature douteuse (finance grise) accessibles à une minorité. De plus, la ferveur du scandale tend à cibler certains acteurs comme dirigeant un groupe centralisé ou intermédiaires entre les milieux d’affaires, politique et criminel. Les transactions s…
Patterns in Criminal Achievement
Even though intense cultural pressures for monetary success and an institutional social structure dominated by the economy are viewed in anomie theory as stimulating criminal motivations and accounting for criminal behavior with an instrumental character, patterns in criminal earnings have not attracted much scholarly and empirical attention. Wilson and Abrahamse's (1992) analysis of Rand's second inmate survey concluded that most inmates intervi…
Criminal Achievement, Offender Networks and the Benefits of Low Self‐control
This study follows recent research on criminal earnings and examines the impact of underlying traits (low self‐control) and personal organization features (nonredundant networking) on the criminal earnings of a sample of incarcerated offenders previously involved in market and predatory crimes. Controlling for various background factors (age, noncriminal income, lambda and costs of doing crime), both low self‐control and nonredundant networking i…
Scrutinizing Rico
Introduction
Certaines trajectoires delinquantes sont breves et se resument parfois a un seul passage a l'acte implosif. D'autres s'etalent sur une longue periode et sont ponctuees de succes plus ou moins temporaires et de revers plus ou moins decisifs. Certains delinquants, qu'ils soient juveniles ou adultes, «reussissent» mieux ce parcours que d'autres. Ces reussites delinquantes1 constituent le theme de cette livraison. Il nous a semble utile d'ouvrir ce n…
Contacts, Opportunities, and Criminal Enterprise
In Contacts, Opportunities, and Criminal Enterprise , Carlo Morselli examines how business-oriented criminals who have personal networks designed to promote high numbers of diverse contacts achieve and maintain competitive advantages in their earning activities and overall criminal careers
Délinquance, performance et capital social
Cet article soutient la thèse selon laquelle le capital social des délinquants leur permet d’augmenter de manière significative les revenus qu’ils retirent de leurs activités. La démarche utilisée pour rendre opératoire cette proposition a pour effet de renouveler de différentes façons la sociologie criminelle : il ne suffit pas de savoir si un délinquant « fréquente » d’autres délinquants ou non, il faut mesurer la qualité relationnelle et instr…
The efficiency/security trade-off in criminal networks
Mentors and Criminal Achievement
Much of the research focusing on conventional occupations concludes that mentored individuals are more successful in their careers than those who are not mentored. Early research in criminology made a similar claim. Yet contemporary criminology has all but ignored mentors. We investigate this oversight, drawing on Sutherland's insights on tutelage and criminal maturation and incorporating ideas on human and social capital. We argue that mentors p…
Law-Enforcement Disruption of a Drug Importation Network
This study focuses on the structure and evolution of a drug importation network that operated from Montreal, Canada, and that was the target of an extensive 2-year criminal investigation. The investigation was atypical in that it followed a seize-but-do-not-arrest strategy—while 11 drug shipments were seized by police throughout this period, arrests were never made until the final phase of the investigation. Such a case offers a rare opportunity …
Inside Criminal Networks
Brokerage Qualifications in Ringing Operations
Brokers are fundamental for maintaining flexibility in the networks that embed criminal activities. Our study aims at offering more precision on this key issue by examining the impact that brokers may have on crime‐commission processes. To do so, we analyze two stolen‐vehicle exportation (or ringing) operations within a framework that merges crime‐script analysis and social‐network analysis. We assess how diverse degrees of brokerage are distribu…
Assessing Vulnerable and Strategic Positions in a Criminal Network
This study focuses on individual positioning within an illegal drug distribution network surrounding a reputed criminal organization (the Quebec Hells Angels). The aim is to distinguish between participants who were positioned vulnerably and/or strategically during a period when the network was targeted by an intensive law-enforcement investigation. Two centrality measures are used throughout the analysis. Degree centrality accounts for the numbe…
Analyse de la structure sociale des conflits et des alliances intergangs
Cette étude propose un cadre analytique qui permet d’étudier le réseau social des gangs montréalais, dont certains s’identifient aux deux grandes coalitions étatsuniennes : lesBloods(les rouges) et lesCrips(les bleus). L’objectif de cette recherche est de décrire la structure de ce réseau social en s’intéressant d’abord à la constitution et à l’organisation interne de ces gangs et, ensuite, aux dynamiques relationnelles qui les unissent une fois …
The mobility of criminal groups
This article reviews evidence from past research that addresses diverse themes and theories regarding shifts and patterns in the mobility of criminal groups. Our main objective is to identify push and pull factors that will help us understand how and why criminal groups, organisations or general organised crime patterns are present across a variety of settings (i.e. geographical locations, criminal markets and legitimate industries). Push factors…
Faits et conspirations
L’organisation de systèmes d’opérations financières suspectes diffèrerait souvent de l’image présentée par les scandales qu’ils suscitent. Des formes de criminalité sont confondues avec des schèmes de nature douteuse (finance grise) accessibles à une minorité. De plus, la ferveur du scandale tend à cibler certains acteurs comme dirigeant un groupe centralisé ou intermédiaires entre les milieux d’affaires, politique et criminel. Les transactions s…
La violence et la résolution de conflits chez des trafiquants de cocaïne
La violence est souvent regardée comme le moyen de prédilection des trafiquants dans la résolution de conflits dans le trafic de drogue. On ne remet que rarement en question cette évidence. La présente recherche analyse les récits des événements conflictuels vécus par douze hommes incarcérés pour trafic de cocaïne. Des 53 conflits discutés par ces trafiquants, 48 ont abouti à une résolution non violente qui n’exclut pas pour autant les menaces. C…
Opportunistic Structures of Organized Crime
Crime and Networks
Crime facilitation purposes of social networking sites
There have been growing claims in media circles and law-enforcement settings that street gangs and criminal groups are turning to Internet-based social networking sites for various reasons ranging from the showcasing of their images and exploits to the suspected recruitment of members. The present study investigates whether such a trend is, in fact, in place. The presence of street gangs on these Internet sites is referred to as cyberbanging. Whi…
Keeping promises
Friends with(out) benefits
Research shows that co-offending has contradictory effects on rates of re-arrest. On the one hand, group offending may be riskier: for example, co-offenders might be targeted by police or might snitch to protect themselves. Criminal networks may also have indirect effects: offenders embedded in criminal networks commit more offences and thus should have a higher risk of being arrested at some point. On the other hand, networks generate steady cri…
Homme à femmes
La présente étude se penche sur les rôles, les interactions et l’échange des ressources au sein d’un réseau de prostitution démantelé par un service de police d’une grande ville canadienne. Plutôt que d’inscrire le débat dans la perspective de l’exploitation des prostituées par les proxénètes, l’analyse de ce réseau est réalisée dans une perspective du partage des ressources, qui sont plus souvent utilisées pour d’autres types de réseaux criminel…
Coercion, Control, and Cooperation in a Prostitution Ring
Coercion and control are key components of the dominant narrative on sex trafficking, but the power and exchange relations between some of the key players in trafficking have not been carefully examined. This study is based on electronic surveillance data from a two-year police investigation of a prostitution network in Montreal. All of the prostitutes in the network had initially been recruited when they were minors. Whereas most of the writing …
Modeling dynamic social networks using spectral embedding
Cannabis cultivation in Quebec
Political science (26 obras) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (25 obras) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (24 obras) · Computer Science (22 obras) · Criminology (21 obras) · Psychology (16 obras) · Sociology (16 obras) · Computer security (14 obras) · Business (13 obras) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (10 obras)