Disrupting Dark Networks
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 05 April 2013
- 12 November 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781139136877
- 9781107022591
- 9781107606685
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.73kg, 490 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.61kg, 490 Pages
- Subjects:
- Social Theory, Social Psychology, Criminology, Psychology, Sociology
- Series:
- Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences (34)
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- Social Theory, Social Psychology, Criminology, Psychology, Sociology
- Series:
- Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences (34)
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Book description
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.
Reviews
'Disrupting Dark Networks offers not only a critical and well-informed overview of social network theories and techniques, but also a critical reflection on counterinsurgency and counter-terrorism. It is certainly a valuable reference for scholars in the field.'
Anita Lavorgna Source: Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books
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