Siren

Post date: Aug 16, 2016 10:5:10 AM

DESCRIPTION: Project Siren began in February 1998 when a port worker informed members of the CERVO group that a container of stolen vehicles had been recently shipped to Ghana. This shipment was subsequently seized at its transit point in Anvers, Belgium. This initial tip and action led to a close monitoring of the suspects involved in the shipment. The investigation continued for 4 months (to June 1998), during which time CERVO members monitored stolen-vehicle shipments intended for Russia, Egypt, Iraq, Italy, and Switzerland. Some vehicles were also resold in Toronto. Overall, 35 cars were retrieved according to the files that were consulted.

DATA FORMAT: UCINET, .csv

NETWORK DATA: 1-mode matrix 44 x 44 person by person. Ties are undirected.

Relations represent communication exchanges between criminals. Data comes from police wiretapping.

SOURCE/AVAILABILITY: Available from Manchester, reconstructed from Morselli’s book, Inside Criminal Networks http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/criminology/book/978-0-387-09525-7 book page 187, Appendix

CITATION: Morselli, C., 2009. Inside criminal networks. New York: Springer.

KEYWORDS: criminals