Increased awareness of network-based social action (Castells, 2009), including criminal action, necessitates the incorporation of network-based analyses in the work of the precinct crime analyst. Social network analysis is a social science methodology that can provide crime analysts with a set of quantitative metrics and robust visual displays, through which they can quickly discover, analyze and visualize network-based criminal action with the goal of developing rigorous interdiction strategies. Using ‘real world’ data provided by the Richmond City Police Department, a large urban metropolitan police department located in the United States in Richmond, Virginia, we show how social network analysis can provide a common language through which crime analysts and police detectives can effectively work to quickly develop interdiction strategies in response to criminal activities that afflict local law enforcement agencies. Through both a case study and use of SNA in actual criminal cases, we show how a network approach can assist police in understanding complex behavioral motivations of offenders, strategically hot-spotting people of interest and developing stronger inter-jurisdictional working relationships.
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 02:36:53 +0000
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