
Start Date
Duration
Instructors
Dr. Arvind Verma
(arvindcjus@cse.iitk.ac.in)
Dr. Hanif Qureshi
Dr. Nisheeth Srivastava
Dr. Ramyaa
Dr. Shankar Prawesh
Dr. S K Lodha
Operational Assistants
Akash Misra
Deepak Kumar
Revathy K T
Sugatha Chaturvedi
Description
Research is the core of modern professional internal security issues today. Criminal justice is increasingly a data-driven function and CJ organizations process substantial data that reflect the social, political, economic factors impacting Indian society. Vast amount of criminal justice data is being collected throughout India. The nation-wide Crime and Criminal Tracking Network and Systems (CCTNS), as well sixty years of Crime in India data, new sources such as ‘Dial 100’ system across the country are providing big data to practitioners, researchers and policy makers. Combined with additional social, political and economic data and geographic information systems that provide spatial maps and allow incorporation of temporal phase, significant new heights can be scaled for effective crime control with data analytics and visualization.
The major objective of this course will be to train security personnel in analytic tools for study of crime and its control in India. Big Data analytics is among today’s fastest-growing professions and this course seeks to build skills in applying its techniques for internal security of the country. The course will incorporate subject matter from the disciplines of criminology, computing science, mathematics, geography, economics, psychology, management, philosophy, and ethics, with special emphasis upon gender, race and ethnic studies. Topics will cover Big Data Analytics comprising machine learning and AI applications as well as qualitative methods. Students will study ways of understanding and modeling of the complex social & political environment, and with these models better understand how to improve approaches to crime reduction and the use of analytics in criminal justice issue.
For more details, please visit the CCJR website by clicking here.
Criminal Justice Data Analysis - 5
Starting Date: 01-11-2022
Closing Date: 20-01-2023
Course Content
Module 1 Weeks 1: Criminological Perspectives - Nov 1-6
Class Meetings: Tuesday, Thursday & Friday at 9.00 pm IST on Zoom
Module 2 Week 2: Qualitative Analysis and Historiographic - Nov 8-11
Class Meetings: Tuesday, Thursday & Friday at 9.00 pm IST on Zoom
We will have guest lectures during this week
Module 3: Week 3: Conceptualization/ development of research project
No class meeting this week
Students work on developing research question and design
Assignment on Research Design due by Nov 20
Module 4 Week 4: Machine Learning & Agent Based Modeling Nov 21-26
Class Meetings: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Friday at 9.00 pm IST on Zoom
Guest lectures during this week
Assignment on ML due by Nov 27
Module 5 Weeks 5: Network Analysis - Nov 28-Dec 2
Class Meetings: Tuesday & Thursday at 9.0 pm IST on Zoom
We will have guest lectures during this week
Assignment on Network due by Dec 4
Module 6 Weeks 6: Data Visualization - Dec 5-9
Class Meetings: Tuesday & Thursday at 9.0 pm IST on Zoom
We will have guest lectures during this week
Assignment on Visualization due by Dec 11
Mod 7 Weeks 7+: Project Work - Dec 11-31
Class Meetings: Assorted weekdays at 9.00 pm IST on Zoom
We may have guest lectures on these days too
Mod 8 Jan 9-16: Project Presentations
Audience
The course is designed for officers of Indian police, private security managers, senior officers of defense services, internal security policy analyst, CJ practitioners, and researchers. In particular, this course is designed for those seeking to enhance their skills and capabilities in crime prevention techniques. Graduate students of political science, sociology, criminology, computer science, mathematics, and management will also benefit from this course.
Educational Requirements
The minimum educational requirement is a bachelor’s degree and experience of working with computers. In this course, you’ll learn quantitative and qualitative methods for data analysis through hands-on exercises and video instruction from IIT Kanpur faculty and guest faculty from other institutions around the globe.
Time Frame
You can complete all course requirements in this course and earn your certificate in 12 weeks, spending 5-7 hours per week.
Evaluation
Weekly Assignments/ Exercises/ Quizzes 90%
Presentation 10%
Outcomes
- Theories of crime that suggest why people commit crime
- Building Criminal Justice Data Sources
- Criminal Justice Data Visualization
- Big data analytics, simulation, machine learning, network analysis, survey design in criminal justice issues, Data Security
- Formulating crime control questions that can be tested using various methods.
- Using CJ data to test policy outcome
- Writing a draft publishable research article
About Certificates
After completion of all the assignments and successful presentation, the students will be awarded a Certificate in Criminal Justice Data Analysis by IIT Kanpur.