Category: Gangs and Organized Crime

Bouchard, M. (2020). Collaboration and Boundaries in Organized Crime: A Network Perspective. Crime and Justice, 49(1).

A network approach helps us better specify and model collaboration among people involved in organized crime. The focus on collaboration raises the boundary specification problem: Where do criminal organizations start, where do they end, and who is involved? Traditional approaches sometimes assume the existence of simple, rigid structures when complexity and fluidity are the norms….

Hashimi, S., & Bouchard, M. (2017). On to the next one? Using social network data to inform police target prioritization. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, 40(4), 768-782.

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Purpose: Target prioritization is routinely done among law enforcement agencies, but the criteria to establish which targets will lead to the most crime reduction are neither systematic, nor do they take into account the networks in which offenders are embedded. The purpose of this paper is to propose network capital as a guide for prioritization…

Bouchard, M., & Hashimi, S. (2017). When is a “war” a “wave?” Two approaches for the detection of waves in gang homicides. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, 59(2), 198-226.

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Gang violence and gang “wars” are often described as coming in waves, but little empirical work has been conducted to distinguish between actual “waves” of violence and the more common ups and downs that trends in homicides typically go through. We propose two approaches for the detection of waves of gang-related homicides in the Lower…

Hashimi, S., Bouchard, M., Morselli, C., & Ouellet, M. (2016). A method to detect criminal organizations from police data. Methodological Innovations, 9, 1-14.

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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…

Wong, J. S., Gravel, J., Bouchard, M., Descormiers, K., & Morselli, C. (2016). Promises kept? A meta-analysis of gang membership prevention programs. Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice, 2(2), 134-147.

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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to synthesize the effects of gang prevention programs on gang membership. Design: 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…

Bouchard, M., Morselli, C., Hashimi, S., & Ouellet, M. (2015). Proportion of Criminal Incidents Associated with Organized Crime (023). Public Safety Canada.

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The current report provides: 1) a measure of the proportion of criminal incidents that are associated with organized criminal activities (overall and for each offence type) in Montreal; 2) situates potential organized crime offenders within the wider population of co-offenders, that is, beyond the region under study and; 3) gauges the various types of resources…

McCuish, E. C., Bouchard, M., & Corrado, R. (2015). The search for suitable homicide co-offenders among gang members. Journal of contemporary criminal justice, 31(3), 319-336.

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Little is known about homicide co-offending networks at the individual gang member level. Of particular interest is whether and to what degree gang members who are selected to participate in murder are different from those who are not. The current study constructed the co-offense network of 18 participants from the Incarcerated Serious and Violent Young…

Gravel, J., Descormiers, K., Wong, J., Bouchard, M., Morselli, C. (2014). Efficacité des initiatives de contrôle des gangs de rue: Une revue systématique des recherches évaluatives. Pp. 473-498 in J.P. Guay et C. Fredette (Eds.) Le phénomène des gangs de rue: Théories, évaluations, interventions, Montréal: Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal.

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