Organised crime and social media; a system for detecting, corroborating and visualising weak signals of organised crime online

ANDREWS, Simon, BREWSTER, Ben and DAY, Tony (2018). Organised crime and social media; a system for detecting, corroborating and visualising weak signals of organised crime online. Security Informatics, 7.

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Abstract

This paper describes an approach for detecting the presence or emergence of Organised Crime (OC) signals on Social Media. It shows how words and phrases, used by members of the public in Social Media posts, can be treated as weak signals of OC, enabling information to be classi�ed according to a taxonomy. Formal Concept Analysis (FCA) is used to group information sources, according to Crime-type and Location, thus providing a means of corroboration and creating OC Concepts that can be used to alert police analysts to the possible presence of OC. The analyst is able to `drill down' into an OC Concept of interest, discovering additional information that may be pertinent to the crime. The paper describes the implementation of this approach into a fully-functional prototype software system, incorporating a Social Media scanning system and a map-based user interface. The approach and system are illustrated using Human Tra�cking and Modern Slavery as an example. Real data is used to obtain results that show that weak signals of OC have been detected and corroborated, thus alerting to the possible presence of OC.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1186/s13388-018-0032-8
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Elements
Depositing User:	Symplectic Elements
Date Deposited:	26 Nov 2018 15:07
Last Modified:	18 Mar 2021 02:52
URI:	https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/23431

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