Topic: big data mining and analysis of piracy
Lecture time: 13:00-15:00, December 16, 2019
Venue: Shanghai maritime university library B107
In this lecture, I explore three research questions motivated by situational perspectives to study the causes and consequences of maritime piracy in the South China Sea, Malacca Strait and East Africa – 1) To what extent does the study of maritime piracy support the central tenets of environmental criminology and crime and harm concentration at places; 2) How do offender motivation, target suitability and the absence of capable guardians and their convergence impact the instantaneous risk of piracy in South East Asia; and 3) To what extent do economic conditions of fishermen impact the instantaneous risk of piracy in East Africa and South East Asia. I rely on methodologies such as spatial econometrics, survival analysis, Bayesian statistics, and the semiparametric additive hazards model to tackle these questions.
Jiang bo graduated from the university of Maryland, USA. He is currently a research assistant in the school of criminology and criminal justice, university of Maryland, USA and a tutor in the institute of criminology, university of Cambridge, UK. He studied for bachelor's and master's degrees in the department of economics at the national university of Singapore and in the department of crime at the university of Pennsylvania. He also taught in the department of strategy and policy at the school of business at the national university of Singapore. Since 2014, I have been studying under professor Gray LaFree, director of START and professor of the department of criminal justice at the university of Maryland. Research interests are focused on issues such as "human trafficking and social control", "prisons and violent political extremism", "piracy" and "terrorist attacks", using advanced quantitative analysis. The paper has been published in the international criminology journal "quantitative criminology" and other journals. His research paper on the analysis of "pirates in the south China sea and the strait of malacca" won the first prize in the paper competition of the American society of criminology's international division of criminology.
Organizer:
Department of safety science and engineering, school of Marine science and engineering, Shanghai maritime university
Marine public security research center, Shanghai maritime university
Center for safety technology trends, Shanghai maritime university