important relationships in criminal networks

[_rck_]

This is based on a Canadian report about criminal networks. The report itself focuses more on organized crime as social relationships rather than as business relationships (a not insignificant part).

The key social relationships within organized crime are all based on something that is already in common between the members, and somewhat out of

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[_muttiofrck_]

This may well be the text of a research into big international companies, where the wording in a gereral manner needs to be understood in a less criminal meaning. Gerhard

quite so

[_rck_]

This is a very good point, and I find the list of roles the authors identify in the network very compelling as describing the workings of big international corporations, esp. at the higher and highest levels of corporate governance. (Incidentally, when I read about the Monitors, I was reminded of the censors in Imperial China and Judge Dee.)

There is also a flip-side to this interpretation, which the report expressively side-steps, but primarily for reasons of presentation and abstraction, not because it is justifiable in terms of the subject matter: Namely, that non-petty crime is (maybe above all else) an economic enterprise; it is therefore hardly surprising that the operation of such organizations require the same kind of infrastructure.

I found a similar parallelism most interesting about the story of Claus Störtebecker and the Vitalis-brothers: The main people involved where the niedere Landadel who was having a hard time catching on to the Early Medieval Capitalism. Conversely, I recall that at least one of the cities rented