Disrupting resilient criminal networks through data analysis: The case of Sicilian Mafia.

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-Enforcement Agencies (LEAs). Herein, we borrow methods and tools from Social Network Analysis (SNA) to (i) unveil the st...

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Main Authors: Lucia Cavallaro, Annamaria Ficara, Pasquale De Meo, Giacomo Fiumara, Salvatore Catanese, Ovidiu Bagdasar, Wei Song, Antonio Liotta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236476