Criminal Networks, Organized Crime, & Gangs

Select Publications & Reports (2019 - Present):

Updated August 1, 2025

Bichler, G., Petrossian, G.A., Viramontes, K., & Marteache, N. (2024). "Detecting Communities at High-Risk of IUU Fishing: Networks of Shadow Encounters in Area 81 of the Western Central Pacific." Frontiers in Marine Science, 11:1355481. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2024.1355481

Arenas, L. & Marteache, N. (2023). "Illicit Trafficking of Snakes as Exotic Pets. Script Analysis." Report prepared for the Life+ SATEC project of the European Network for Environmental Crime (EnviCrimeNet, facilitated by EUROPOL).
Bichler, G., & Jimenez, I. (2023). "Drug Smuggling Seizures: The Effects of Reporting Consistency and Quality on the Observed Transnational Structure." Journal of Drug Issues, 53(1), 159–179. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220426221107550
Rodriguez Perez, A., et al. (2023). "Decoding the Obfuscated: Advanced NER Techniques on Commercial Sex Advertisement Data." Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, Las Vegas, NV (December 13-15)
Yu, J. Z., Wu, M., Bichler, G., Aros-Vera, F., & Gao, J. (2023). "Reconstructing Sparse Multiplex Networks with application to Covert Networks." Entropy, 25(142):1-18. https://doi.org/10.3390/e25010142

Bichler, G., & Norris, A. (2022). "Crossing lines: Structural advantages of inter-racial criminal street gang violence." Trends in Organized Crime, 1-28. DOI: 10.1007/s12117-022-09468-9
Bichler, G., & Norris, A. (2022). Untangling the Web of Violence: The Network Effects of Civil Gang Injunctions, Los Angeles, California, 1998-2013. ICPSR37895-v1.

Bichler, G., Norris, A., & Ibarra, C. (2021). Explaining the Directionality of Gang Violence with Court Records. Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research. 10.1108/JACPR-11-2020-0558
Fathurrohman, & Bichler, G. (2021). Explaining the positional importance of actors involved in trafficking methamphetamine into Indonesia. Global Crime, 22(2), 93-122.

Bichler, G., Norris, A., & Ibarra, C. (2020). Evolving Patterns of Aggression: Investigating the Structure of Gang Violence During the Era of Civil Gang Injunctions. Social Sciences, 9(11):203-221. DOI: 10.3390/socsci9110203.
Dmello, J. & Bichler, G. (2020). "Assessing the Impact of Civil Gang Injunctions on the Use of Online Media by Criminal Street Gangs." International Journal of Cyber Criminology, 14(1):16-34.
Fathurrohman & Bichler, G. (2020). Explaining the Positional Importance of Actors Involved in Trafficking Methamphetamine into Indonesia. Global Crime, DOI: 10.1080/17440572.2020.1819249.

Bichler, G. (2019). Understanding Criminal Networks: A Research Guide. University of California Press. ISBN: 9780520297050
Bichler, G., & Malm, A. (2019). "Social Network Analysis." In: Routledge Handbook of Crime Science. Richard Wortley, Aiden Sidebottom, Nick Tilley and Gloria Laycock (Eds.). Routledge International Handbooks. Pp. 207-222.
Bichler, G., Norris, A., Dmello, J.R., & Randle, J. (2019). "The Impact of Civil Gang Injunctions on Networked Violence between the Bloods and the Crips." Crime and Delinquency, 65(7): 875-915. DOI: 10.1177/0011128717739607

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