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by Benoit Leclerc (Editor), Jesse Cale (Editor)
Big Data entails a major disruption in the ways we think about and do things, which certainly applies to most organisations including those operating in the criminology and criminal justice fields.
Author Biography
Benoit Leclerc is an Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. His research interests include the development and application of procedural analysis (ie crime scripting) for purposes of crime investigation, detection and prevention. He is leading several research projects with Corrections and police organisations. With Clifford Shearing and Ross Homel, he is the cofounding editor of Criminology at the Edge, an annual edited volume series in criminology (Routledge). Recent publications appeared in Criminal Justice and Behavior, Crime & Delinquency, the Journal of Research in Crime, and Delinquency and Sexual Abuse.
Jesse Cale is an Associate Professor of Criminology in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University and Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales in Australia. His main areas of research involve the causes and consequences of sexual violence, developmental criminology and criminal justice policy and evaluation. He is a Chief Investigator on several large-scale research grants in Australia funded by the Australian Research Council and different state governments and agencies examining the development of delinquency and criminal offending and the effectiveness of criminal justice policy responses to crime.
