Friday, October 7, 2016
Peter Carrington's SSHRC grant for 2016-2021 will support his research on criminal collaboration in Canada. Using data collected by Statistics Canada from the police, Professor Carrington is analyzing patterns of inter-connections among crimes committed in Canada by pairs or groups of offenders. His objective is to develop a conceptual framework for the social organization of crime that will subsume existing categories such as 'the gang' and 'organized crime'; and in doing so, to produce a map of collaborative criminal activity across Canada.