ERC Starting Grant · 2023
sociogeNEsis of criMinal nEtworks: reconStruction, dIscovery and diSruption
Europol defines criminal networks as a modern version of the Hydra mythological creature, with obscure genesis, fluid structure and multifaceted evolutions. Leveraging a unique synergy between Social Sciences and Statistics, NEMESIS departs from current practice to translate the main obstacles (i.e., data incompleteness and complexity) underlying the reconstruction, discovery and disruption of these modern criminal networks into a unique resource for crucially expanding available knowledge and policies. This ambitious perspective builds on three somewhat overlooked, yet fundamental, observations. First, data missingness in criminal networks can be, in fact, a fundamental source of…
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