Illicit networks and enterprise crime

Lorraine Elliott

Chapter 3 in Transnational Environmental Crime, 2026, pp 29-47 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter examines how network activities and organizational attributes in the illicit economy of transnational environmental crime can be connected empirically and analytically to the literature on global commodity chains and global production networks. In its focus on the criminal and illegal side of networks, it draws also on insights from criminological social network analysis, economic geography, and economic sociology. It outlines a framework that can help identify actors and divisions of labour in environmental crime networks, decisions about outsourcing in illicit networks, and the value or otherwise of decentralized structures for production and processing. Mindful of criminological concerns about the associational dimensions of networks, it gives some thought to connectivity, flows, and mechanisms of social control. In this regard, the chapter also unpicks some of the deeply embedded claims that transnational environmental crime is best characterized by organized crime groups on an industrial scale.

Keywords: Social Network Analysis; Network Typologies; Organized Crime Groups; Enterprise Crime; Corruption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035374359
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