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This book focuses on applications of social network analysis in predictive policing. Data science is used to identify potential criminal activity by analyzing the relationships between offenders to fully understand criminal collaboration patterns. Co-offending networks--networks of offenders who hav...
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Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Switzerland : |
| Publication Dates: | [2016] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lecture notes in social networks,
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This book focuses on applications of social network analysis in predictive policing. Data science is used to identify potential criminal activity by analyzing the relationships between offenders to fully understand criminal collaboration patterns. Co-offending networks--networks of offenders who have committed crimes together--have long been recognized by law enforcement and intelligence agencies as a major factor in the design of crime prevention and intervention strategies. Despite the importance of co-offending network analysis for public safety, computational methods for analyzing large-scale criminal networks are rather premature. This book extensively and systematically studies co-offending network analysis as effective tool for predictive policing. The formal representation of criminological concepts presented here allow computer scientists to think about algorithmic and computational solutions to problems long discussed in the criminology literature. For each of the studied problems, we start with well-founded concepts and theories in criminology, then propose a computational method and finally provide a thorough experimental evaluation, along with a discussion of the results. In this way, the reader will be able to study the complete process of solving real-world multidisciplinary problems. |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 133 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, forms ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9783319414911 (hardback) : 3319414917 (hardback) |
| Index Number: | HV7936 |
| CLC: | D523.3-37 |
| Call Number: | D523.3-37/T236 |
| Contents: | Foreword; Preface; Contents; 1 Introduction; References; 2 Social Network Analysis in Predictive Policing; 2.1 Conventional Crime Analysis; 2.2 Predictive Policing; 2.3 Social Network Analysis; 2.4 Co-offending Networks; 2.5 Co-offending Network Analysis in Practice; References; 3 Structure of Co-offending Networks; 3.1 Crime Data; 3.1.1 Crime Data Model; 3.1.2 Co-offending Network Model; 3.1.3 BC Crime Dataset; 3.2 Co-offending Network Structural Properties; 3.2.1 Degree Distribution; 3.2.2 Co-offending Strength Distribution; 3.2.3 Connecting Paths; 3.2.4 Clustering Coefficient. |