Martin Bouchard is Associate Professor of Criminology at Simon Fraser University, Canada. His research focuses on the organization and dynamics of illegal markets, and the role of social networks in a variety of criminal phenomena. His work appeared in numerous journals, including Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Justice Quarterly, and Social Networks.

This book provides a state of the art assessment into network research currently being conducted in criminology and beyond, pushing the field further in multiple ways. It was originally published as a special issue of Global Crime.

1. Advances in research on illicit networks 2. Co-offending in Canada, England and the United States: a cross-national comparison 3. Friends with(out) benefits: co-offending and re-arrest 4. Exploring the social organisation and structure of stolen data markets 5. Reputation in a dark network of online criminals 6. The multiplexity of political conspiracy: illegal networks and the collapse of Watergate 7. The BALCO scandal: the social structure of a steroid distribution network 8. Evolution of a drug trafficking network: Mapping changes in network structure and function across time 9. Small arms, big guns: a dynamic model of illicit market opportunity 10. Networks as strategic repertoires: Functional differentiation among Al-Shabaab terror cells