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Book Synopsis Illuminating Dark Networks by : Luke M. Gerdes
Download or read book Illuminating Dark Networks written by Luke M. Gerdes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminating Dark Networks discusses new necessary methods to understand dark networks, because these clandestine groups differ from transparent organizations.
Book Synopsis Understanding Dark Networks by : Daniel Cunningham
Download or read book Understanding Dark Networks written by Daniel Cunningham and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark networks are the illegal and covert networks (e.g, insurgents, jihadi groups, or drug cartels) that security and intelligence analysts must track and identify to be able to disrupt and dismantle them. This text explains how this can be done by using the Social Network Analysis (SNA) method. Written in an accessible manner, it provides an introduction to SNA, presenting tools and concepts, and showing how SNA can inform the crafting of a wide array of strategies for the tracking and disrupting of dark networks.
Book Synopsis Disrupting Dark Networks by : Sean F. Everton
Download or read book Disrupting Dark Networks written by Sean F. Everton and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disrupting dark networks focuses on how social network analysis can be used to craft strategies to track, destabilize and disrupt covert and illegal networks. The book begins with an overview of the key terms and assumptions of social network analysis and various counterinsurgency strategies. The next several chapters introduce readers to algorithms and metrics commonly used by social network analysts. They provide worked examples from four different social network analysis software packages (UCINET, NetDraw, Pajek and ORA) using standard network data sets as well as data from an actual terrorist network that serves as a running example throughout the book. The book concludes by considering the ethics of and various ways that social network analysis can inform counterinsurgency strategizing. By contextualizing these methods in a larger counterinsurgency framework, this book offers scholars and analysts an array of approaches for disrupting dark networks.
Book Synopsis Advances in Research on Illicit Networks by : Martin Bouchard
Download or read book Advances in Research on Illicit Networks written by Martin Bouchard and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social network analysis finally reached a critical mass of scholars in the field of criminology. The proven track record of network theory and methods in fostering new advances in our understanding of crimes and criminals has extended the web of researchers willing to integrate this approach to their work. It is more than just a fad – once you adopt a network approach, it almost inevitably becomes the main lens through which you see crime. The insights learned from analysing matrices of relations among offenders, from exploiting the interdependence among actors instead of finding ways to avoid it are simply too great to ignore. This book provides a state of the art assessment into network research currently being conducted in criminology and beyond, pushing the field further in multiple ways. A series of contributions tackle themes and offending types that had yet to be previously empirically investigated, including political conspiracies, steroid distribution, methamphetamine production, illicit marketplaces on the Internet, and small arms trafficking. Advances are also found in the data sources used to extract illicit networks, and the methods used to analyse them. This book was originally published as a special issue of Global Crime.
Book Synopsis African Border Disorders by : Olivier J. Walther
Download or read book African Border Disorders written by Olivier J. Walther and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the end of the Cold War, the monopoly of legitimate organized force of many African states has been eroded by a mix of rebel groups, violent extremist organizations, and self-defence militias created in response to the rise in organized violence on the continent. African Border Disorders explores the complex relationships that bind states, transnational rebels and extremist organizations, and borders on the African continent. Combining cutting edge network science with geographical analysis, the first part of the book highlights how the fluid alliances and conflicts between rebels, violent extremist organizations and states shape in large measure regional patterns of violence in Africa. The second part of the book examines the spread of Islamist violence around Lake Chad through the lens of the violent Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram, which has evolved from a nationally-oriented militia group, to an internationally networked organization. The third part of the book explores how violent extremist organizations conceptualize state boundaries and territory and, reciprocally, how do the civil society and the state respond to the rise of transnational organizations. The book will be essential reading for all students and specialists of African politics and security studies, particularly those specializing on fragile states, sovereignty, new wars, and borders as well as governments and international organizations involved in conflict prevention and early intervention in the region.
Book Synopsis Organised Crime and Law Enforcement by : David Bright
Download or read book Organised Crime and Law Enforcement written by David Bright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. This book is multi-disciplinary and will be of interests to criminologists, legal scholars, and those engaged with security, intelligence, and terrorism studies. 2. This is the first book to offer a network perspective on organised crime and law enforcement.
Book Synopsis Manitoba Law Journal Volume 44 Issue 1 (Special Issue) by : Michael Nesbitt
Download or read book Manitoba Law Journal Volume 44 Issue 1 (Special Issue) written by Michael Nesbitt and published by Manitoba Law Journal. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Manitoba Law Journal (MLJ) is a peer-reviewed journal founded in 1961. The MLJ's current mission is to provide lively, independent and high calibre commentary on legal events in Manitoba or events of special interest to our community.The MLJ aims to bring diverse and multidisciplinary perspectives to the issues it studies, drawing on authors from Manitoba, Canada and beyond. Its studies are intended to contribute to understanding and reform not only in our community, but around the world. As part of our commitment to you, our team is pleased to announce the release of Canada’s premier publication on “Project Osage,” an inter-agency security operation that executed the largest terrorism-related sting in Canadian history. Canadian Terror: Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives on the Toronto 18 Terrorism Trials engages a multidisciplinary perspective that unites criminological, legal, and security analyses to consider the processes, as well as the shortcomings, involved in investigating and prosecuting terrorism in Canada. We are honoured that Canadian Terror is edited and co-authored by prominent Canadian academics
Book Synopsis The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion, Gender and Sexuality by : Sonya Sharma
Download or read book The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion, Gender and Sexuality written by Sonya Sharma and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 883 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together disciplines across the arts, humanities and social sciences, this Handbook presents novel and lively examinations of the dynamic ways religion, gender and sexuality operate. Applying feminist, intersectional, and reflexive approaches, the volume aims to loosen imperialist and exclusionary figurations that have underwritten and tethered religion, gender, and sexuality together. While holding onto the field of inquiry, the Handbook offers contributions that interrogate and untie it from the terms and conditions that have formed it. The volume is organized into thematic sections: - Forces and Futures - Activisms and Labors - Agencies and Practices - Relationships and Institutions - Texts and Objects Chapters range across religious, geographical, historical, political, and social contexts and feature an array of case-studies, experiences, and topics that exemplify the reflexive intention of the volume, including explorations of race, whiteness, colonialism, and the institutional intolerance of minority groups. Contributors also advance new areas of research in religion including artificial intelligence, farming, migrant mothering, child sexual abuse, mediatization, national security, legal frameworks, addiction and recovery, decolonial hermeneutics, creative arts, sport, sexual practices, and academic friendship. This is an essential contribution to the fields of religious studies and gender and sexuality studies.
Book Synopsis Routledge Handbook of Transnational Organized Crime by : Felia Allum
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Transnational Organized Crime written by Felia Allum and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully revised new edition provides a definitive and holistic overview of Transnational Organized Crime (TOC) in a world in which right wing populism has gained ground, trade wars are increasing, climate change is a reality and Covid poses a challenge for years to come. Updated to reflect the changing world environment, the book includes new chapters on issues such as criminal network analysis, environmental crime, cybercrime, people smuggling, drugs activities in the modern world, the relationship between organized crime and corruption, anti-organized crime resilience and the effectiveness of the fight against organized crime. New country case studies have also been included. The handbook is presented in six sections: • Concepts, theories and laws • Origins and manifestations • Contagion and evolution • Intensity and impact • Governance • Reaction and future Truly interdisciplinary in nature, the handbook features contributions from an international team of experts, working in different academic disciplines and within varied law enforcement agencies. It will appeal to scholars, policymakers and practitioners in International Law, Global Governance, International Political Economy and Security Studies.
Book Synopsis The Criminology of Carlo Morselli - Part I by : Rémi Boivin
Download or read book The Criminology of Carlo Morselli - Part I written by Rémi Boivin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-12 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of two volumes, this book about the criminology of Carlo Morselli includes diverse contributions that study the social inter-dependence of criminal phenomena. It presents various studies on the importance and impact of social ties on offenders, victims and the social response to crime. The idea that social relationships are central to the understanding of human phenomena draws its roots from Jacob Moreno’s work in 1934, whose contribution – among others made at about the same time – paved the way for social network analysis (SNA), a set of methods and approaches that study dyadic relationships and their connections to other dyads in the same network. Surprisingly, SNA was not widely adopted in criminology until the end of the 20th century. It took researchers like Carlo Morselli to apply the principles of SNA and graph theory to criminological objects. As a researcher, Morselli embodied SNA; he was a so-called ‘broker’ in his network of social scientists, linking dozens of excellent researchers that he collaborated with, directly or not. Granovetter showed that ‘weak ties’ – or acquaintances – were important in the diffusion of new ideas, and Morselli put that insight to practice in criminology. This collection of works from experts in the field takes on questions that Morselli worked on throughout his career, drawing on his theoretical insights, his methods, and even his general conceptualisation of what organised crime is, and isn’t, to deliver rich and fertile scholarship on the study of social networks in criminology. The Criminology of Carlo Morselli - Part I will be a key resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Sociology, and Social Sciences. The chapters included in this book were originally published as a special issue of Global Crime.
Book Synopsis Networks and Religion by : Sean F. Everton
Download or read book Networks and Religion written by Sean F. Everton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book uses social network analysis to explore the various effects that social networks have on religious belief and practice.
Book Synopsis Palgrave Handbook of Inter-Organizational Relations in World Politics by : Rafael Biermann
Download or read book Palgrave Handbook of Inter-Organizational Relations in World Politics written by Rafael Biermann and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique handbook brings together a team of leading scholars and practitioners in order to map, synthesize and assess key perspectives on cooperation and rivalry between regional and global organizations in world politics. For the first time, a variety of inter-disciplinary theoretical and conceptual perspectives are combined in order to assess the nature, processes and outcomes of inter-organizational partnerships and rivalries across major policy areas, such as peace and security, human rights and democratisation as well as finance, development and climate change . This text provides scholars, students and policy-makers of International Relations with an exhaustive reference book for understanding the theoretical and empirical dimensions of an increasingly important topic in International Relations (IR), Global Governance and related disciplines.
Book Synopsis Egocentric Network Analysis by : Brea L. Perry
Download or read book Egocentric Network Analysis written by Brea L. Perry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Egocentric network analysis is used widely across the social sciences, especially in anthropology, political science, economics, and sociology, and is increasingly being employed in communications, informatics, and business and marketing studies. Egocentric network analysis requires a unique set of data collection and analysis skills that overlap only minimally with other network methodologies. However, until now there has been no single reference for conceptualizing, collecting, and analyzing egocentric social network data. This comprehensive guide to study design, data collection, and analysis brings together the state of knowledge with the most effective research tools to guide newcomers to this field. It is illustrated with many engaging examples and graphics and assumes no prior knowledge. Covering the entire research process in a logical sequence, from conceptualizing research questions to interpreting findings, this volume provides a solid foundation for researchers at any stage of their career to learn and apply ego network methods.
Book Synopsis Leading from the Periphery and Network Collective Action by : Navid Hassanpour
Download or read book Leading from the Periphery and Network Collective Action written by Navid Hassanpour and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political revolutions, economic meltdowns, mass ideological conversions and collective innovation adoptions occur often, but when they do happen, they tend to be the least expected. Based on the paradigm of 'leading from the periphery', this groundbreaking analysis offers an explanation for such spontaneity and apparent lack of leadership in contentious collective action. Contrary to existing theories, the author argues that network effects in collective action originating from marginal leaders can benefit from a total lack of communication. Such network effects persist in isolated islands of contention instead of overarching action cascades, and are shown to escalate in globally dispersed, but locally concentrated networks of contention. This is a trait that can empower marginal leaders and set forth social dynamics distinct from those originating in the limelight. Leading from the Periphery and Network Collective Action provides evidence from two Middle Eastern uprisings, as well as behavioral experiments of collective risk-taking in social networks.
Book Synopsis Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek by : Wouter De Nooy
Download or read book Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek written by Wouter De Nooy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an analysis and visualization of social networks integrating theory, applications, and professional software for performing network analysis (Pajek).
Book Synopsis Network Analysis by : Craig M. Rawlings
Download or read book Network Analysis written by Craig M. Rawlings and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the theory, methods, and application of social network analysis.
Book Synopsis Crime and Networks by : Carlo Morselli
Download or read book Crime and Networks written by Carlo Morselli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative collection of original essays showcases the use of social networks in the analysis and understanding of various forms of crime. More than any other past research endeavor, the seventeen chapters in this book apply to criminology the many conceptual and methodological options from social network analysis. Crime and Networks is the only book of its kind that looks at the use of networks in understanding crime, and can be used for advanced undergraduate and beginner’s graduate level courses in criminal justice and criminology.
