SOC208H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Information Management, Social Capital, Money Laundering
Document Summary
Products: drugs & alcohol, electronics, knock-off clothing/purses, dvds/cds, endangered animal products (tusks & horns) Cybercrime: identity crime, email scams, phishing and spoofing. State definition: a large legitimate corporation, which it resembles, cosa. Research: loosely organized, informal groups, hostile, uncertain environments, limited geographic scope, adaptive, short-lived, licit and illicit profits. Associational: violence: less inclined to use, geographic scope: varied, reorganization: reform, fluid network. Structures, activities, socio-political position: criminal structures, forms: Relationship between organizations and networks: social microcosm of illegal entrepreneurs: Network of criminally exploitable ties: relations that enable interaction to further criminal activity whenever need or opportunity arises: manifest ties, latent ties, criminal social capital: Social space within which criminals operate and cooperate with creating new relationships. Network ties & settings: potential ties, unstable networks rely on importance of convergence. Trust & criminal networks: point of reference: social group that warrants trust, family: kinship ties, community/ethnicity: familiarity and conformity, business relationship: embedded in broader social networks.
