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4th Symposium on the Structure and Mobility of Crime

NetSci2019 Satellite
May 27, 2019, Burlington, Vermont
NETCRIME 2019

NetCrime—The structure and mobility of crime​

Crime plagues the world and is present in every city, at every economic level, at every education level; it percolates in the structure of society probably more than any other socioeconomic problem. Notably, we have seen recently a huge leap forward in the understanding of social structures and human mobility—two crucial components of crime. Offenders not only rarely commit crime alone (be it a robbery of a few hundred dollars, or a high-profile wall-street crime of millions of dollars) but also tend to commit crime along with the same associates. Criminal activities are complex processes and likely to depend on an underlying network of actors involved in the activities who, like most people, are part of global social networks. With the advance in Network Science and related areas, we now have better tools to approach and examine social phenomena such as crime. 

Since 2015, NetCrime is an event that has been put together to bring researchers from various fields including, Criminology, Sociology, Physics, Computer Science, Mathematics, law-enforcement to an open forum to discuss the role of Network Science in understanding the structure and dynamics of crime. 

Program


08:30 - 08:45
Opening Remarks​

08:45 - 09:00
Predicting criminal behavior with Lévy flights using real data from Bogota​
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Mateo Dulce    ​
09:00 - 09:15
Crime Patterns and Urban Infrastructure around São Paulo City Schools: An Analytical Study via Non-Negative Tensor Factorization
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Jaqueline Silveira, Germain García, Afonso Paiva, Debora Piccirillo, Marcelo Nery, Sergio Adorno, and Luis Gustavo Nonato    ​
09:15 - 09:30​
The complexity of political corruption networks​
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Jose Roberto Nicolas Carlock, Abdul Waheed Mahessar, Issa Luna-Pla, Jesus Espinal-Enriquez, Gabriel Ramos-Fernandez, Jesus Mario Siqueiros-Garcia, and Fabiola Navarro-Luna    ​
09:30 - 09:45​
Topological and weighted rich-club effect in corruption networks​
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Luiz G. A. Alves, Bruno R. da Cunha, Francisco Rodrigues, and Pietro Panzarasa    ​
09:45 - 10:00
Caribbean Financial Networks: Is Always Dirty Money?​ 
Oscar Granados    ​

10:00 - 10:30​
Coffee break​

​10:30 - 11:15​
Using game theory to defend against opportunistic criminals

Prof. Martin B. Short​

11:15 - 11:30​
Efficient allocation of law enforcement resources using predictive police patrolling​
Alvaro Riascos, Mateo Dulce, and Simon Ramirez    ​
11:30 - 11:45​
Can We See Two Types of Crime Based on Connections to Mortality and Property. Are Networks the Way Forward?​
Jack Sutton, Golnaz Shahtahmassebi, Haroldo Ribeiro, and Quentin Hanley    ​
11:45 - 12:00​
On Modeling Adversarial Activities in Large Multi-Source Networks​
Jiejun Xu, Kangyu Ni, Alexei Kopylov, Shane Roach, and Tsai-Ching Lu    ​
12:00 - 12:15​
Addressing reporting bias and feedback loop from crime prediction models in Bogota​
​Juan Moreno, Álvaro Riascos, and Mateo Dulce    ​

12:15 - 13:45
Lunch break

Call for abstracts

​We invite submissions of extended abstract (2 pages max) via EasyChair
​A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest include:
  • Understanding crime as a complex system;
  • criminal networks;
  • crime modeling;
  • dynamics and structure of transnational crime;
  • dynamics of criminal hotspots in cities;
  • dynamics of terrorist events;
  • crime prediction in cities;
  • spatial regularities of crime in cities;
  • use of social media for crime analysis;
  • dynamics of cyber-crime;
  • interplay of criminal events and social-economic factors;
  • use of communication data in criminal activity;
  • detection of criminal organization in cities
  • relationship between human mobility and crime;
  • visualization of illegal activities;
  • social network analysis in crime data
  • network-based tools for analyzing crime
  • visualization of criminal data in cities
  • and others.
Submit Your Abstract
Submissions will be evaluated and selected by the Program Committee, based on the adherence to the workshop theme, originality and scientific quality. Once an abstract has been accepted, at least one author is required to attend the workshop and present the paper. Please note that the participants must register in the NetSci general conference.

Dates

​Submission deadline 
March 21, 2019

Notification of acceptance 
March 28, 2019
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NetSci early registration deadline
April 10, 2019
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NetSci late registration deadline
May 20, 2019
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NetSci dates 
May 27 to May 31, 2019
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NetCrime date  
May 27, 2019

Location

The satellite will be held in the

University of Vermont Davis Center

590 Main St, Burlington, Vermont 05401, USA

At the Chittenden Bank Room, on the 4th floor:

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Keynote speaker

Prof. Martin Short


​Prof. Martin B. Short

Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Mathematics
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Program committee

Carmelo Bastos-Filho
    University of Pernambuco, Brazil
Paolo Campana
    University of Cambridge, UK
Noemi Derzsy
    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Giacomo  Fiumara
    University of Messina, Italy
Vasco Furtado
    Universidade de Fortaleza, Brazil
Luigi Laura
    Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Diogo Pacheco
    Indiana University, USA
Matjaz Perc
    University of Maribor, Slovenia
Michael Porter
    University of Virginia, USA
Rafael Prieto Curiel
    University of Oxford, UK
Haroldo Ribeiro
    State University of Maringá, Brazil
Eder Schneider
    Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Organizers

Luiz G. A. Alves
​Northwestern University, USA
​Toby Davies
​University College London, UK
Ronaldo Menezes
University of Exeter, UK
Marcos Oliveira
GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany
Bruno Requião
University of Limerick, Ireland, and Federal Police, Brazil

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Past editions

NetCrime2018   -    NetCrime 2017   -    NetCrime 2015
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