Delinquent Networks

This book presents a study of co-offending relations among youths under 21 suspected of criminal offenses in Stockholm during 1991-1995. In total the study includes just over 22000 individuals suspected of around 29000 offenses. Jerzy Sarnecki employs the method of network analysis that makes it possible to study the ties social bonds interactions differential associations and connections that are central to many of the sociologically oriented theories on the etiology of crime. Up to now network analysis had been used only rarely in the criminological context.