Analysis of Crime using Complex Networks

Code developed for the analysis of criminal networks for Master Thesis and Published Paper:

Anastasiadis, Efstathios Konstantinos, and Ioannis Antoniou. 2024. "Directed Criminal Networks: Temporal Analysis and Disruption" Information 15, no. 2: 84. https://doi.org/10.3390/info15020084

LINK: [https://doi.org/10.3390/info15020084]

Folders

• src: Contains .py scripts, custom functions in a folder named "modules"
• data: data used
• results: generated results

Notes

A large amount of the n_removal.py script (especially the disruption function) is heavily inspired by the code provided in the academic work of Lucia Cavallaro and Annamaria Ficara and Pasquale De Meo and Giacomo Fiumara and Salvatore Catanese and Ovidiu Bagdasar and Antonio Liotta https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236476.