Wednesday 16 April 2025 15:00 - 16:00

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About this event

This paper studies gangs in Brazil, an underexplored yet highly disruptive setting in organised crime. Using information from the intelligence, occurrences and prison records, we identify and label gang clusters by optimising the Markov stability of community structure. We analyse the identified clusters through different network statistics. We find a strong correlation between most individual centrality measures, while intercentrality highlights that some “key players” may have been missed in official hierarchical classifications. The findings of this study will help assess and outline optimal disruption strategies in this setting.

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Policing and Crime Workshops are part of the CEP's Community Wellbeing programme and Policing and Crime Research Group.