Disrupting Dark Networks

Informationen zum Autor Sean F. Everton is Assistant Professor in the Department of Defense Analysis, as well as the Co-Director of the CORE Lab at the Naval Postgraduate School. Klappentext This book focuses on how social network analysis can be used to craft strategies to track, destabilize and disrupt covert, illegal networks. Zusammenfassung Sean F. Everton focuses on how social network analysis can be used to craft strategies to track! destabilize and disrupt covert! illegal networks. He illustrates these methods using worked examples from four different social network analysis software packages (UCINET! NetDraw! Pajek and ORA). Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Introduction: 1. Social network analysis: an introduction; 2. Strategic options for disrupting dark networks; Part II. Social Network Analysis: Techniques: 3. Getting started with UCINET, NetDraw, Pajek, and ORA; 4. Gathering, recording, and manipulating social networks; Part III. Social Network Analysis: Metrics: 5. Network topography; 6. Cohesion and clustering; 7. Centrality, power, and prestige; 8. Brokers, bridges, and structural holes; 9. Positions, roles, and blockmodels; Part IV. Social Network Analysis: Advances: 10. Dynamic analyses of dark networks; 11. Statistical models for dark networks; Part V. Conclusion: 12. The promise and limits of social network analysis.

Product details

• Authors: Sean F. Everto, Sean F. Everton, Sean F. (Naval Postgraduate School Everton
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.11.2012
• EAN: 9781107606685
• ISBN: 978-1-107-60668-5
• No. of pages: 490
• Series: Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences; Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology