Deciding Resilient Criminal Networks

Criminal networks mostly shape themselves in order to maximize their gains but also hide their activities from prosecution. They also need of trust within network members and cliques. They also seek for immunity and protection from breaches and may not trust others, so they shape the network structure to this end. In this paper we presented a resilience measure for criminal networks which is tested on two real criminal networks. We investigated resilience results in parallel with their activities, their recruitment policy, and growth of network, their survival strategy and secrecy after they are prosecuted.