Law-enforcement disruption of a drug importation network

Global Crime

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 109-130

  Morselli, Carlo ^a   Petit, Katia ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Criminal network; Critical node; Drug trafficking; Law enforcement; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249319104     PISSN: 17440572     EISSN: 17440580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17440570701362208     Document Type: Article

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