Social Network Analysis and the Organisational Characteristics of Law Enforcement Agencies: IT Software, Systems and Training

2020 ◽  
pp. 159-170
Author(s):  
Morgan Burcher
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
And Training

Using Network Analytics to Improve Targeted Disruption of Police Misconduct

2021 ◽  
pp. 109861112110572
Author(s):  
Timothy I. C. Cubitt
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Police Misconduct ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Targeted Disruption ◽  
Network Analytics ◽  
Practical Implications

Research into police misconduct traditionally considers the correlates and antecedents of misconduct among individual officers, as a means of disruption or prevention. However, more recently, deviance among police has been considered through network perspectives. This study considered 7755 allegations of misconduct accrued by 1495 officers from the Baltimore Police Department between January 2015 to January 2020. A social network analysis was employed to consider the characteristics and differences of misconduct networks between assignments and to identify key officers within these networks. Findings suggested that the misconduct networks of patrol assignments functioned marginally different to investigations or specialist duties. Discrete communities of misconduct were identified within each assignment, including a small number of officers that were particularly important to supporting these networks. This study holds practical implications for the identification and disruption of misconduct networks among law enforcement agencies.

scholarly journals Women and universities in El País (1977-2011): A methodological proposal for use of the ITCS for historical analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 009
Author(s):  
Carlos G. Figuerola ◽  
Tamar Groves ◽  
Francisco J. Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Network Analysis ◽  
Network Analysis ◽  
Text Mining ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Practical Case ◽  
Computer Tools ◽  
Analysis Techniques

The practice of historical research in recent years has been substantially affected by the emergence of the so-called digital humanities. New computer tools have been appearing, software systems capable of processing vast quantities of information in ways that until recently were inconceivable. Text mining and social network analysis techniques are sophisticated instruments that can help render a more enriching reading of the available data and draw useful conclusions. We reflect on this in the first part of this article, and then apply these tools to a practical case: quantifying and identifying the women who appear in university-related articles in the newspaper El País from its founding until 2011.

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