This chapter examines two main ways that actors in criminal networks ensure security, with a focus on organisational structure and personal risk-management strategies. Scholars generally agree that most contemporary criminal organisations operate through decentralised networks. Leaders of criminal networks must strike a delicate balance across the need for concealment, the requirement to be visible enough to conduct business and the need to manage the greatest risk, human capital. Data was collected from each source for the purposes of social network analysis.
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