CLEAN - LSE SEMINAR -  Magdalena Dominguez (IFS)

The next CLEAN seminar, in collaboration with LSE, will take place on April 16th 2025 from 4-5PM CET online.

Magdalena Dominguez (IFS) will be presenting her paper “Delineating Brazilian Gangs” joint with Rui Costa, Rebecca Rose, and Matteo Sandi.

Abstract 

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.

You may follow the event online via Zoom Meetings at the following link: https://unibocconi-it.zoom.us/j/95156174209?pwd=wXEpcuO3NvMY4wKbMZJxdbd4MXbThO.1 - Meeting ID: 951 5617 4209 - Passcode: 380323