ICIAC 2011 Stream 5: Classes and Workshops

Abstracts and slides

Class 5C: Advanced telephone, financial and social network analysis - a practical approach (I)

Mark Fleet and Elaine Heathcote, Criminal Justice Team, i2 Group

On a daily basis, many law enforcement organisations have to deal with a growing data deluge of information from multiple sources in multiple formats, as well as the challenge of how to find and manage key information within it. They have to sift for data in spreadsheets, clean up financial reports and telecoms data received from Communications Service Providers, and deal with information retrieved from mobile phone forensic examinations, as well as other types of information.  Although these datasets are often extremely valuable in uncovering hidden links within complex groups of people, they often have a short shelf life which makes this task ever more critical and time sensitive.  Without the right tools, these are also the most time consuming and resource hungry tasks of an investigation.

This workshop will look at how technology can help investigators and analysts to speed up work processes, and improve the effectiveness of managing these large and diverse datasets to ensure they produce the answers they need, to the questions that matter, fast.

It will cover some advanced techniques and approaches around telephone and financial analysis, and introduces how Social Network Analysis capabilities can enable investigators understand the dynamics behind networks, identifying the roles individuals play and pinpointing the characteristics of these groups and how they evolve over time. The workshop also covers some new approaches to collaboration and briefing systems.

"Analyst’s Notebook is a valuable tool in our analysis arsenal and has saved literally hundreds of hours of work." Dr. Craig Valli, Edith Cowan School of Computer Security and Forensics

Presenter's slides: Unfortunately these are not available.  Please contact i2 for more details www.i2group.com/uk

Class 5D: Crime script analysis (I)

Lisa Tompson, UCL Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science

Script analysis is a technique which is increasingly being applied to understand (simple through to complex) criminal activity. Its primary purpose is to organise knowledge - i.e. intelligence - that relates to understanding a behavioural process. Like a theatrical script, a crime script deals with the mechanics of breaking down a plot into acts and scenes so that there is some organisation structure to the storytelling, which assists in making the plot more readily understandable.

Crime scripts can be used in a variety of ways: to identify intelligence requirements; as an analytic strategy; as a problem-solving tool; or as a general means of understanding a complex array of behaviour. Analysts who have applied crime script analysis have realised that it is far from an exact science. It requires a full understanding of the purpose and nature of scripts and an ability to think critically about criminal behaviour in its entirety. This class will facilitate both of these requirements by taking delegates through a number of examples and exercises. It is anticipated that at the end of the class delegates will be able to apply the principles of script analysis to a range of crime problems.

Presenter's slides: ICIAC11_5D_LTompson

Class 5E: Geographic profiling – principles and its application (I)

Colin Johnson, Senior Geographic Profiler, National Policing Improvement Agency

This session will be presented by Colin Johnson, who has over a decade of practical experience as one of two dedicated Senior Geographic Profilers with the National Policing Improvement Agency. 

There will be an outline introducing the basic theories and principles upon which the Geographic Profiling discipline is based. However, the session will primarily concentrate on more practical aspects which are of particular interest to analysts.

The intention is for attendees to appreciate some of the techniques developed with reference to real life case examples. This will include delegates experiencing some of these from a practical perspective, involving participants in interactive and group activities.

The intention is for attendees to consider both established and new ideas and be more aware of considerations around ‘time’ and ‘location’, to be of practical benefit within the investigative arena. 

Presenter's slides: ICIAC11_5E_CJohnson

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