This is where socialworld came from

The strongest services that socialworld are able to offer are in the area of data analysis and development of decision support systems for crime prevention and detection.

We have worked with the following crimes:

• Burglary dwelling house (West Midlands Police)
• Gang and gun crime (Greater Manchester Police and South Africa)
• Insurance fraud - car crash claims, mobile phone theft, university admissions
• Repeat victimisation (Cleveland Police)
• Text mining of modus operandi - all crimes (Northumbria Police)
• Terrorism crimes (Turkish Police National Academy)
• Retail crimes (Northeast Retail Crime Partnership)

And used the following software:

• Geographical informations systems
• Spatial statistics software
• Social network analysis software
• Data mining software
• Statistical/ numerical software
• Crimes analyst software
• Text mining and natural language processing software

And have extensive research and publications in this area, for instance:

• OATLEY, G.C., EWART, B.W., & ZELEZNIKOW, J., 2006. Decision Support Systems For Police: Lessons From The Application of Data Mining Techniques To ‘Soft’ Forensic Evidence. Artificial Intelligence and Law (2006) 14: 35-100. [url]
• OATLEY, G.C., McGARRY, K. & EWART, B.W., 2006. Offender network metrics. WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications, Issue 12, Volume 3, December 2006, pp. 2440-2448. [pdf]
• OATLEY G.,C., & EWART B., 2003. Crimes Analysis Software: 'Pins in Maps', Clustering and Bayes Net Prediction. Expert Systems with Applications 25 (4) Nov 2003 569-588. [pdf]
• EWART B.W., & OATLEY G.C., 2003. Applying the concept of revictimization: using burglars' behaviour to predict houses at risk of future victimization. International Journal of Police Science and Management 5 (2) 2003. [url]