Social Network Analysis
Social network analysis
“Networking in Child Exploitation – Assessing disruption strategies using registrant information
Voices of the Caucasus Emirate: Mapping and analyzing North Caucasus insurgency websites.
Abstract: This article looks at Internet use by insurgent groups in the North Caucasus in the context of a regional diffusion of violence. Using a mixed methods research design that – …
Social Network Analysis and ‘Dark’ Networks: An Analysis of the London Bombers and the Problem of ‘Fuzzy’ Boundaries
Abstract: Social network analysis (SNA) is believed to be capable of revealing significant insights into crime and terror groups, including identifying important individuals and unique approaches to disruption. However, SNA – …
(Dés)organisation et dynamiques identitaires du mouvement skinhead au Québec : une étude exploratoire
The Surveillance Of Social Networking And The Social Value Of Privacy
This chapter argues that theories about privacy would benefit from embracing deliberative democratic theory on the grounds that it addresses harms to democracy, and widens our understandings of privacy infringements – …
Neighbourhood Effects on Fear of Crime in Canada
Fear of crime is a social problem with potentially serious consequences, including altering or restricting one’s behaviour. Changes to one’s routine for this purpose are known as constrained behaviours. Although – …
Advances in Research on Illicit Networks
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 – …
Social Networks, Terrorism, and Counter-Terrorism: Radical and Connected
This book examines two key themes in terrorism studies, the radicalization process and counter-terrorism policies, through the lens of social networks. The book aims to show that networks should be – …
Why bother? Death, Failure, and Fatalistic Withdrawal from life
Anxiety and the Approach of Idealistic Meaning
This chapter will provide an overview of some of our research on meaning-related motivational processes. We outline our Reactive Approach Motivation theory, which offers a goal-regulation perspective on anxiety and – …
Social Networks, Terrorism, and Counter-Terrorism: Radical and Connected
Social network analysis in the study of terrorism and political violence
Crime Facilitation Purposes of Social Networking Sites: A Review and Analysis of the Cyberbanging Phenomenon
Why Terror Networks are Dissimilar: How Structure Relates to Function
Assessing the core membership of a youth gang from its co-offending network
Efficacité des initiatives de contrôle des gangs de rue: Une revue systématique des recherches évaluatives
Inside Criminal Networks
Crime and Networks
Cross-Border Terror Networks: A Social Network Analysis of the Canada-U.S. Border
American rhetoric has repeatedly painted Canada as a conduit for terrorists to enter the USA. But what actually happens at Canada’s borders? This article analyses open-source, cross-sectional data on Canadians – …
Terrorist Networks as Strategic Repertoires: Functional Differentiation among Al-Shabaab Terror Cells
This article explains variation across the characteristics and structure of Al-Shabaab (AS) networks as a function of strategic repertoires. (Source: Publication).
The Social Network of Hackers
Social researchers are facing more and more challenges as criminal networks are expanding in size and moving to the Internet. Many efforts are currently under way to enhance the technical – …
Voices of the ‘‘Caucasus Emirate’’: Mapping and Analyzing North Caucasus Insurgency Websites
This article looks at Internet use by insurgent groups in the North Caucasus in the context of a regional diffusion of violence. (Source: Publication).
TSAS WP14-01: Researching Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism through a Network Lens
In this paper, we argue that integrating network concepts and network methods to the study of terrorism and counter-terrorism are central ingredients in bringing the field forward from theoretical, empirical, – …