Police and Security, Vol. 21 No. 3, 2012.
Original scientific paper
The Social Network Analysis of Organized Criminal Groups in the Republic of Croatia
Ana_Marija Horjan
; Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia
Saša Krnjašić
; Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
This paper provides an overview of the methodology of the Criminal Police of the MoI of the Republic of Croatia in the definition of organized criminal groups with an explanation of mandatory and optional parameters that define each particular group. For the easier monitoring of the level of organization of the group the characteristics of organized criminal groups operating in the Republic of Croatia at the national level are explained by attributes based on the Sleipnir model. Organized criminal groups are the responsibility of the National Police Office for Suppression of Corruption and Organized Crime, and successful concept of conducting is based on the European model of intelligence led policing with the necessary inter-agency cooperation.
The shown application of social network analysis of organized criminal groups proves that in the Croatian criminal network, which is part of regional and even part of European criminal networks, there is clearly compactness of the network to which the observed criminal system is stable. Also, the criminal system is flexible and adaptable to changes for which the fight against organized criminal groups is difficult. The connections between network entities, or among members of groups, show the strength and the power of certain individuals, but also show the dominance of certain groups in the entire network. This paper presents the analysis of social networks on the sample which on the representative manner describes the Croatian criminal network at the national level of threats. The basic network models and principles that govern them are explained, which is shown by the certain measures that are used in the analysis of social networks. Also, the network model that exists in the network of Croatian criminal groups in a representative sample is determined.
Keywords
organized criminal group; Sleipnir model; attribute; social network analysis; criminal network; measures; scale-free network
Hrčak ID:
94776
URI
Publication date:
23.12.2012.
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