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. 

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