Nathan P Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 123997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nathan P Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nathan P |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES N P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sam Houston State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5036-0766 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Detecting Drone Threats at Stadiums and Public Venues: Overview, Operational Considerations, and Technical Implementation
This article overviews the issue of drone threats to stadiums and public venues. It provides emergency managers and those defending this critical infrastructure with an overview, operational considerations, and a discussion of the technical implementation for defending these sites from drone threats through detection. It provides a discussion of the current limitations of countermeasures and legal frameworks relevant to drones. Throughout, this a…
Uncovering hidden alliances in organized crime networks with machine learning: From Node Similarity to Graph Neural Networks
Covert or dark networks, such as those formed by organized crime or illicit alliances, pose unique challenges for link prediction research due to their inherent secrecy and data incompleteness. In this study, we compare a suite of advanced methods for inferring missing links in covert networks, including classical node similarity indices, graph embedding approaches, and GNN-based methods. We evaluate them on two real-world datasets: the Lantia da…
Climate change risks to water security: Exploring the interplay between climate change, water theft, and water (in)security
This article explores the interplay between climate change, water theft, and water (in)security and proposes a three-node nexus conceptual framework for understanding the same. Water is essential for the proper functioning of human and natural systems. However, water scarcity that was limited to specific regions of the world in the past has today become a global crisis. The global water crisis is driven by climate change, water theft, overuse, wa…
Cyber Cases: The Picca Framework for Documenting Geopolitically Relevant Cyber Action
This article presents a novel framework called the Policy Informative Cyber Case Analysis for cyberattack incidents. The aim of this framework is to provide a structured documentation and translational assessment tool for cyber incidents of geopolitical significance to a broader policy audience. The article discusses case study method as applied to cyber incidents, situates the framework amongst other useful methods, discusses the application of …
Urban Security: From High-Intensity Crime to Large-Scale Combat Operations and Everything in Between
Virtual Urban Siege: Modern Urban Siege and Swarming in Culiacán 2019 & 2023
Modern urban siege is a metaphor for evolved urban campaigns. The template for such attacks draws from the tactics seen in the 26/11 Mumbai attack in 2008, and continued with the 2013 Westgate Mall attack in Kenya, the January 2015 Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher attacks in Paris and the November 2015 attacks against the Stade de France and Bataclan. These virtual sieges employ swarming tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to provide a templ…
A Social Network Analysis of Mexico’s Dark Network Alliance Structure
This article assesses Mexico’s organized crime alliance and subgroup network structures. Through social network analysis (SNA) of data from Lantia Consultores , a consulting firm in Mexico that specializes in the analysis of public policies, it demonstrates differential alliance structures within Mexico’s bipolar illicit network system. The Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación’s (CJNG) alliance structure is top-down and hierarchical, while the Sina…
Dilemmas of Immigrant Asylum Claims for Expert Witnesses
Expert witnesses are key players in immigration asylum proceedings. In many cases, their testimony is the difference between prompt deportation and some form of relief. However, political and economic structures overdetermine the factual and legal dimensions of immigrant asylum claims. The U.S. immigration system from its inception has been heavily politicized and discriminatory. The problem has become even more pronounced since the election of D…
Territorial Politics and the Party System in Spain: Continuity and Change since the Financial Crisis, Caroline Gray (2020)
Review of: Territorial Politics and the Party System in Spain: Continuity and Change since the Financial Crisis , Caroline Gray (2020) Abingdon: Routledge, 167 pp., ISBN 978-1-85743-983-0, h/bk, £84.00, ISBN 978-0-42929-006-0, e/bk, £25.89
Got to build that trust”: The perspectives and experiences of Aboriginal health staff on maternal oral health
The Aboriginal health staff identified the potential role of Aboriginal Health Workers and Family Partnership Workers promoting oral health among Aboriginal pregnant women. To develop an effective oral health model of care among Aboriginal women during pregnancy, there is the need for training of Aboriginal Health Workers and Family Partnership Workers in oral health. Including Aboriginal staff at every stage of a dental referral pathway could re…
Huachicoleros: Criminal Cartels, Fuel Theft, and Violence in Mexico
Criminal cartels and gangs dominate the illicit economy in Mexico. These organized crime groups challenge the solvency (specifically capacity and legitimacy) of the state in Mexico. Organized crime in Mexico is involved in a range of activities including extortion, drug trafficking, human trafficking, and petroleum theft. Criminal cartels, often called drug trafficking organizations, have diversified into other illicit activities specifically pet…
A snake who eats the devil’s tail: The recursivity of good and evil in the security state
The Islamic State and Mexican drug ‘cartels’ have been positioned as extreme menaces to the Western world by media and state actors despite their inability to pose existential threats to the US. These groups deftly facilitate such representations through barbaric violence which security and information sharing apparatuses uptake and amplify. The ‘good’ neoliberal security state combats and inflates these ‘evil’ threats which, in turn, empowers pu…
Bacterial Conjugation as a Framework for the Homogenization of Tactics in Mexican Organized Crime
This article posits a competitive bacterial ecology as a framework for Mexican drug trafficking with a novel focus on bacterial conjugation (one type of horizontal gene transmission) to explain tactical homogenization. Individual drug traffickers consciously switch between Mexican organized crime groups sometimes three and four times, much like individual bacteria exchange their DNA in a horizontal genetic transfer that allows rapid evolution and…
The Taken: True Stories of the Sinaloa Drug War - by Valdez Cárdenas, Javier
The importance of the pre September 11 period in explaining Aznar and Blair’s adoption of a pro-US foreign policy
The relationship between José María Aznar and Tony Blair and their support for US foreign policy during their time in office is frequently explained by their shared concern about terrorism following the terrorist attacks on September 11. This article highlights that while the importance of September 11 should be taken into account, other factors during the period from 1996 up until that point are crucial to understanding the relationship between …
Mexico's Illicit Drug Networks and the State Reaction
Huachicoleros: Criminal Cartels, Fuel Theft, and Violence in Mexico
Criminal cartels and gangs dominate the illicit economy in Mexico. These organized crime groups challenge the solvency (specifically capacity and legitimacy) of the state in Mexico. Organized crime in Mexico is involved in a range of activities including extortion, drug trafficking, human trafficking, and petroleum theft. Criminal cartels, often called drug trafficking organizations, have diversified into other illicit activities specifically pet…
A Social Network Analysis of Mexico’s Dark Network Alliance Structure
This article assesses Mexico’s organized crime alliance and subgroup network structures. Through social network analysis (SNA) of data from Lantia Consultores , a consulting firm in Mexico that specializes in the analysis of public policies, it demonstrates differential alliance structures within Mexico’s bipolar illicit network system. The Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación’s (CJNG) alliance structure is top-down and hierarchical, while the Sina…
Bacterial Conjugation as a Framework for the Homogenization of Tactics in Mexican Organized Crime
This article posits a competitive bacterial ecology as a framework for Mexican drug trafficking with a novel focus on bacterial conjugation (one type of horizontal gene transmission) to explain tactical homogenization. Individual drug traffickers consciously switch between Mexican organized crime groups sometimes three and four times, much like individual bacteria exchange their DNA in a horizontal genetic transfer that allows rapid evolution and…
Mexico's Illicit Drug Networks and the State Reaction
The importance of the pre September 11 period in explaining Aznar and Blair’s adoption of a pro-US foreign policy
The relationship between José María Aznar and Tony Blair and their support for US foreign policy during their time in office is frequently explained by their shared concern about terrorism following the terrorist attacks on September 11. This article highlights that while the importance of September 11 should be taken into account, other factors during the period from 1996 up until that point are crucial to understanding the relationship between …
The Taken: True Stories of the Sinaloa Drug War - by Valdez Cárdenas, Javier
Huachicoleros: Criminal Cartels, Fuel Theft, and Violence in Mexico
Criminal cartels and gangs dominate the illicit economy in Mexico. These organized crime groups challenge the solvency (specifically capacity and legitimacy) of the state in Mexico. Organized crime in Mexico is involved in a range of activities including extortion, drug trafficking, human trafficking, and petroleum theft. Criminal cartels, often called drug trafficking organizations, have diversified into other illicit activities specifically pet…
A snake who eats the devil’s tail: The recursivity of good and evil in the security state
The Islamic State and Mexican drug ‘cartels’ have been positioned as extreme menaces to the Western world by media and state actors despite their inability to pose existential threats to the US. These groups deftly facilitate such representations through barbaric violence which security and information sharing apparatuses uptake and amplify. The ‘good’ neoliberal security state combats and inflates these ‘evil’ threats which, in turn, empowers pu…
Bacterial Conjugation as a Framework for the Homogenization of Tactics in Mexican Organized Crime
This article posits a competitive bacterial ecology as a framework for Mexican drug trafficking with a novel focus on bacterial conjugation (one type of horizontal gene transmission) to explain tactical homogenization. Individual drug traffickers consciously switch between Mexican organized crime groups sometimes three and four times, much like individual bacteria exchange their DNA in a horizontal genetic transfer that allows rapid evolution and…
Got to build that trust”: The perspectives and experiences of Aboriginal health staff on maternal oral health
The Aboriginal health staff identified the potential role of Aboriginal Health Workers and Family Partnership Workers promoting oral health among Aboriginal pregnant women. To develop an effective oral health model of care among Aboriginal women during pregnancy, there is the need for training of Aboriginal Health Workers and Family Partnership Workers in oral health. Including Aboriginal staff at every stage of a dental referral pathway could re…
Territorial Politics and the Party System in Spain: Continuity and Change since the Financial Crisis, Caroline Gray (2020)
Review of: Territorial Politics and the Party System in Spain: Continuity and Change since the Financial Crisis , Caroline Gray (2020) Abingdon: Routledge, 167 pp., ISBN 978-1-85743-983-0, h/bk, £84.00, ISBN 978-0-42929-006-0, e/bk, £25.89
A Social Network Analysis of Mexico’s Dark Network Alliance Structure
This article assesses Mexico’s organized crime alliance and subgroup network structures. Through social network analysis (SNA) of data from Lantia Consultores , a consulting firm in Mexico that specializes in the analysis of public policies, it demonstrates differential alliance structures within Mexico’s bipolar illicit network system. The Cártel de Jalisco Nueva Generación’s (CJNG) alliance structure is top-down and hierarchical, while the Sina…
Dilemmas of Immigrant Asylum Claims for Expert Witnesses
Expert witnesses are key players in immigration asylum proceedings. In many cases, their testimony is the difference between prompt deportation and some form of relief. However, political and economic structures overdetermine the factual and legal dimensions of immigrant asylum claims. The U.S. immigration system from its inception has been heavily politicized and discriminatory. The problem has become even more pronounced since the election of D…
Cyber Cases: The Picca Framework for Documenting Geopolitically Relevant Cyber Action
This article presents a novel framework called the Policy Informative Cyber Case Analysis for cyberattack incidents. The aim of this framework is to provide a structured documentation and translational assessment tool for cyber incidents of geopolitical significance to a broader policy audience. The article discusses case study method as applied to cyber incidents, situates the framework amongst other useful methods, discusses the application of …
Urban Security: From High-Intensity Crime to Large-Scale Combat Operations and Everything in Between
Virtual Urban Siege: Modern Urban Siege and Swarming in Culiacán 2019 & 2023
Modern urban siege is a metaphor for evolved urban campaigns. The template for such attacks draws from the tactics seen in the 26/11 Mumbai attack in 2008, and continued with the 2013 Westgate Mall attack in Kenya, the January 2015 Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher attacks in Paris and the November 2015 attacks against the Stade de France and Bataclan. These virtual sieges employ swarming tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to provide a templ…
Climate change risks to water security: Exploring the interplay between climate change, water theft, and water (in)security
This article explores the interplay between climate change, water theft, and water (in)security and proposes a three-node nexus conceptual framework for understanding the same. Water is essential for the proper functioning of human and natural systems. However, water scarcity that was limited to specific regions of the world in the past has today become a global crisis. The global water crisis is driven by climate change, water theft, overuse, wa…
Detecting Drone Threats at Stadiums and Public Venues: Overview, Operational Considerations, and Technical Implementation
This article overviews the issue of drone threats to stadiums and public venues. It provides emergency managers and those defending this critical infrastructure with an overview, operational considerations, and a discussion of the technical implementation for defending these sites from drone threats through detection. It provides a discussion of the current limitations of countermeasures and legal frameworks relevant to drones. Throughout, this a…
Uncovering hidden alliances in organized crime networks with machine learning: From Node Similarity to Graph Neural Networks
Covert or dark networks, such as those formed by organized crime or illicit alliances, pose unique challenges for link prediction research due to their inherent secrecy and data incompleteness. In this study, we compare a suite of advanced methods for inferring missing links in covert networks, including classical node similarity indices, graph embedding approaches, and GNN-based methods. We evaluate them on two real-world datasets: the Lantia da…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (8 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Business (5 works) · Computer security (4 works) · Ecology (3 works)