The 'ndrangheta is a mafia group from Calabria, Southern Italy. Considerable efforts have
been made to understand the structures and the organisation of this mafia, not only in the …

Family law is part of the legal system that applies in Indonesia, which has developed along
with social developments in society. This paper provides an overview of how the …

This article introduces the Banzhaf and the Banzhaf–Owen values as novel measures of risk
analysis of a terrorist attack, determining the most dangerous terrorists in a network. This …

This paper uses economic reasoning to analyze the organization of one of the most
successful criminal groups in modern US history: La Cosa Nostra (LCN). Drawing on …

In Australia, mafia-type families connected to the Calabrian 'ndrangheta have been
successful at exploiting criminal opportunities across generations and places. These …

We propose a new optimization model to detect overlap** communities in networks. The
model elaborates suggestions contained in Zhang et al.(2007), in which overlap** …

Network dismantling has recently gained interest in the fields of intelligence agencies, anti-
corruption analysts and criminal investigators due to its efficiency in disrupting the activity of …

The sociology of elites has long considered families as the unit of analysis in studies of
power dynamics between elite dynasties and their transmission of wealth and prestige over …

In its territories of origin, organized crime entrenched itself in the local institutional context by
either colluding with or (often violently) silencing unions. Criminal organizations are today …

In this article we study the organizational structure of a large group of members of the
Sicilian Mafia by means of social network analysis and an econometric analysis of link …