Exponential Random Graph Models for Social Networks: Theory, Methods, and Applications

result of the social structure of American society.’’ This is true of the particular form or version of organized crime which he describes— it did not emanate from a transplanted Sicilian Mafia. That explanation, however, does not account for the many faces of organized crime in Australia, China, Russia, Japan, and many other places. Nor does it account for the growing phenomenon of transnational organized crime. Apart from any points of disagreement, this is a serious work of scholarship on a subject that has too often gotten short shrift in that respect. Organized Crime in Chicago is a good addition to the organized crime literature.