ABSTRACT The current paper aimed to investigate the effectiveness of five law enforcement interventions in disrupting and dismantling criminal networks. We tested three law enforcement interventions that targeted social capital in criminal networks (betweenness, degree and cut-set) and two interventions that targeted human capital (actors who possess money and those who possess precursor chemicals). These five interventions are compared with each other and with random (opportunistic) removal of actors in two settings: (i) with network adaptation incorporated into the simulations and (ii) without network adaptation. Results illustrate that the removal of actors based on betweenness centrality was the most efficient strategy, leading to network disruption in the least number of steps and was relatively consistent across replications. Targeting actors who possessed money was the second most effective overall and was also relatively consistent in its disruptive effect.

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犯罪网络的漏洞和适应

摘要本文旨在调查五种执法干预措施在破坏和拆除犯罪网络方面的有效性。我们测试了三种针对犯罪网络中社会资本的执法干预措施（中间性，程度和割据）和两种针对人力资本的干预措施（拥有金钱的行为者和拥有前体化学品的行为者）。将这五种干预措施进行相互比较，并在两种情况下随机（机会性地）去除参与者：（i）将网络适应性纳入模拟中；（ii）不进行网络适应性。结果表明，基于中间性中心点来删除参与者是最有效的策略，它以最少的步骤数导致了网络中断，并且在复制过程中相对一致。