Slavery as a Social Institution (2015)
Book Chapter

The Civil Rights Movement and the Literature of Social Protest (2015)
Book Chapter

Crawling Open-Source Data for Indicators of Human Trafficking (2014)
Conference Proceeding

Information available from open-source mediums such as the web and social media are increasingly being used to aid the response to emergent crimes and reinforce existing Law Enforcement Agency intelligence capability. In this paper we discuss the rat... Read More about Crawling Open-Source Data for Indicators of Human Trafficking.

Understanding the complexities of responding to child sex trafficking in Thailand and Cambodia (2014)
Journal Article

Purpose – The market in trafficked children bought and sold for sexual exploitation is one of the most inhumane transnational crimes that appear to have been facilitated by globalisation and its many effects, such as growing disparity in wealth betwe... Read More about Understanding the complexities of responding to child sex trafficking in Thailand and Cambodia.

Social media and its role for LEAs: Review and applications (2014)
Book Chapter

Social media has become a major aspect of online activity, and thus an essential part of cybercrime and cyber terrorism-related operations. As LEA’s (law enforcement agencies) focus upon cybercrime and cyber terrorism threats increase, so does the re... Read More about Social media and its role for LEAs: Review and applications.

Knowledge Management and Human Trafficking: Using Conceptual Knowledge Representation, Text Analytics and Open-Source Data to Combat Organized Crime (2014)
Conference Proceeding

Globalization, the ubiquity of mobile communications and the rise of the web have all expanded the environment in which organized criminal entities are conducting their illicit activities, and as a result the environment that law enforcement agencies... Read More about Knowledge Management and Human Trafficking: Using Conceptual Knowledge Representation, Text Analytics and Open-Source Data to Combat Organized Crime.

Environmental Scanning and Knowledge Representation for the Detection of Organised Crime Threats (2014)
Conference Proceeding

ePOOLICE aims at developing an efficient and effective strategic early warning system that utilises environmental scanning for the early warning and detection of current, emergent and future organised crime threats. Central to this concept is the use... Read More about Environmental Scanning and Knowledge Representation for the Detection of Organised Crime Threats.

Slavery in Europe: Part 2, Testing a Predictive Model (2014)
Journal Article

Since the passage of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act and the United Nations Palermo Protocols of 2000, there has been an increased focus on the magnitude and complexity of modern day slavery. Yet, surprisingly, little empirical... Read More about Slavery in Europe: Part 2, Testing a Predictive Model.

Towards a model for the integration of knowledge management in law enforcement agencies (2014)
Journal Article

A Framework for the Investigation and Modeling of Online Radicalization and the Identification of Radicalized Individuals (2013)
Book Chapter

In this chapter we present an empirically-based theory-independent framework of online radicalization. The framework provides a systematic basis for (a) the representation of causal mechanisms of online radicalization and (b) the identification of ra... Read More about A Framework for the Investigation and Modeling of Online Radicalization and the Identification of Radicalized Individuals.

A Conceptual Framework for Information Security Awareness, Assessment, and Training (2013)
Book Chapter

Information security has become a key issue. Human resources, including all people working with information technology, play a significant role in information security issues. The key factor for human resources in relation to information security is... Read More about A Conceptual Framework for Information Security Awareness, Assessment, and Training.

Am I still not a man and a brother?: protest memory in contemporary antislavery visual culture (2013)
Journal Article

This article examines the visual culture of the twenty-first century antislavery movement, arguing that it adapts four main icons of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century abolitionism for its contemporary campaigns against global slavery and human tra... Read More about Am I still not a man and a brother?: protest memory in contemporary antislavery visual culture.