Violence brokers and super-spreaders: how organised crime transformed the structure of Chicago violence during Prohibition

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The rise of organised crime changed Chicago violence structurally by creating networks rivalries and conflicts wherein ricocheted. This study examines the network during Prohibition analysing ‘violence brokers’ – individuals who committed multiple acts that linked separate violent events into a connected network. We analyse two-mode from Capone Database, relational database on early 1900s crime. Across 276 incidents attributed to were 334 suspected perpetrators violence. find 20% suspects brokers, nine brokers super-spreaders linking majority suspects. also in thick not just as suspects, but victims this experienced more victimisation than non-brokers. Unknowingly or knowingly, these wove together network, attack-by-attack, transformed Chicago.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: Global Crime

سال: 2021

ISSN: ['1744-0580', '1744-0572']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17440572.2021.1998772