David Bright
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3620906 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Bright |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | Bright |
| ASSINATURA | BRIGHT D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4425-9589 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 55 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 144 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2027 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The security–efficiency trade-off in ransomware networks
Ransomware groups pose a threat to both the economy and national security, yet little is known about their structural dynamics. This study analyses the Conti group using leaked Jabber encrypted instant messaging chat data (similar to Messenger) and Relational Event Models to examine how preferential attachment and triadic closure mechanisms shape its communication network. Findings show Conti prioritised efficiency through centralisation but miti…
Contingencies of self-worth across adulthood
Leadership as conversion
This article addresses how school leadership develops teacher capabilities for pedagogically responsive education in increasingly diverse contexts. Drawing on Sen’s capability approach and the theory of practice architectures, it conceptualizes pedagogical responsiveness as a collectively supported capability-set rather than individual teacher dispositions. The study examines how leaders mediate discursive, material-economic and relational arrang…
Co-Offending Networks of Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs
Approaches to the study of OMCGs tend to focus on offending at the individual level, with limited focus on the nature and extent of co-offending among these affiliates. This project examines the positioning of OMCG affiliates in co-offending network structures by examining changes in actor advancements in organizational ranks over time . The de-identified data includes crime/arrest incident data for affiliates of OMCGs , including their rank and …
Counter-narrative as method
This article addresses the ethical question concerning how educational research helps immigrant teachers gain authority and ownership over their self-understanding and self-becoming. By critically examining prior research and analysing the dominant discourse surrounding this specific group, we highlight the limitations and ethical implications of existing findings. We problematise current methodological approaches ito advocate for the necessity o…
An Empirical Comparison of the Profiles of Security Threat Group Offenders with General Offenders
Datasets of offender attributes, both pre-custody and in-custody, were provided by the Correctional Service of Canada with the goal of exploring whether Security Threat Group (STG) offenders (informally, gang members of various kinds) differ in any systematic way from other offenders. For pre-custody attributes, we show that the entire offender population varies along two almost independent axes, one associated with affinity for violence, and the…
The utility of social network analysis to examine conflict and collaboration across boundaries
The internal structure of ransomware criminal groups
The internal structure of ransomware criminal groups: an analysis of organisational units, functions, roles, and communication patterns within Conti
Assessing the geospatial dispersion of crime events in co-offending networks
Assessing the geospatial dispersion of crime events in co-offending networks
Speech-thinking and translation
This article explores the practice of translation, in dialogue with Rosenstock-Huessy’s sociological philosophy. The intention is to reinvigorate his concept of ‘speech-thinking’ and shed light on the intricate relationship between language, thought, and reality. Through an exploration of translation’s position at the interface of cultural otherness, we argue that speech-thinking offers deep analytical insight into the inner workings of human exi…
The dynamics of criminal collaboration
This study examines how social embeddedness and multiplex relationships shape criminal collaboration within organized crime networks. Drawing on data from three major investigations into the ‘Ndrangheta, we analyze how kinship, clan affiliation, leadership, and prior interactions influence participation in meetings and phone calls. Using relational hyperevent models, we assess the dynamic and multiplex nature of these networks across time and inv…
Co-offending networks among members of outlaw motorcycle gangs across types of crime
Outlaw motorcycle gangs (OMCGs) have become synonymous with organised crime through engagement in criminal activities including illicit drug production and distribution, firearms trafficking, and serious violent crime. These crimes contribute significant social and economic harms in countries that feature a presence from these groups. The current paper uses network analytics to analyse the extent of co-offending within and across established club…
Investigating the methods and characteristics of the trafficking of performance and image enhancing drugs in Australia
Investigating the Dynamics of Outlaw Motorcycle Gang Co-Offending Networks
Offence versatility among co-offenders
Research examining co-offending has become increasingly popular over the last two decades. Despite this, there remains a dearth of research examining the dynamics of co-offending across time, largely due to limited access to longitudinal data. In the current paper we are interested in explaining crime versatility, and therefore we employ Relational Hyperevent Models (RHEM) to model the conditional probability that a given group of co-offenders en…
The criminal activities and operational roles of Australian neo-jihadists
Despite the significant global repercussions of terrorism, including loss of lives and economic resources, research on its relationship with crime has been limited to group-level analyses. This study examines the individual criminal activities of Australian Neo-Jihadists, via social network analysis from an individual perspective. Judicial documents and newspaper articles are analysed to determine the criminal activities and operational roles of …
Ransomware HR
Multilevel network interventions
Ventriloquism as Method
This article argues for ventriloquism as a method of (post)qualitative inquiry for appropriating the voice of the Other and amplifying multi-voiced selves. Thinking with embodied figures, ventriloquism captures philosophical conceptions of the subject and object through the self and other. To sustain the existence of 'abject' voices, we orient readers' attention to the creative feature of the 'material dimension' through literary devices. The del…
I Know a Guy and He's Got Guns Galore
Despite there being a highly regulated firearms market, Australian criminals continue to have significant access to illicit firearms. This paper focuses specifically on the role of brokers in the illicit firearms market. It draws from 75 in-depth interviews with prisoners convicted of serious gun-related crimes in Australia. We note how these actors occupy the margins of our interview data yet are seemingly central to the supply and circulation o…
‘I cannot sustain the workload and the emotional toll’
Concerns are mounting about the attraction and retention of teachers in Australian schools. This study draws upon a questionnaire of 2444 Australian primary and secondary school teachers, which revealed that only 41% of respondents intended to remain in the profession. Through a thematic analysis of the qualitative data within the questionnaire, we use employee turnover theory to enable an understanding of the reasons 1446 of the respondents desc…
Assessing variation in co-offending networks
The current study aims to expand the geographic breadth of co-offending research by providing one of the first examinations of co-offending within Australia. We find co-offending was more common for some crimes than others. Individuals arrested for homicide had some of the highest co-offending rates and were more frequently observed in the core of the co-offending network. Females had higher rates of co-offending than males, and differences betwe…
Reprint of
The organisational structure, social networks and criminal activities of outlaw motorcycle gangs
Outlaw motorcycle gangs (OMCGs) are often reported to be disproportionately involved in crime. Debate continues about the relationship between the organisational structure of these groups and the extent and types of criminal activities undertaken by group members. A systematic review of the existing literature was conducted to examine the organisational structures that underpin the criminal activity of OMCGs. The available empirical research, tho…
Using social network analysis to study crime
The use of social network analysis to study groups of offenders engaged in illicit activities such as drug trafficking and terrorism has grown in popularity over the last three decades. Along with such growth, however, researchers have been confronted with a suite of challenges related to the use of data extracted from criminal justice records. In this paper, we review these challenges through a discussion of the extant empirical literature utili…
Exploring the Relationships between Organizational Virtuousness and Performance
The importance of virtuousness in organizations has recently been acknowledged in the organizational sciences, but research remains scarce. This article defines virtuousness and connects it to scholarly literature in organizational science. An empirical study is described in which the relationships between virtuousness and performance in 18 organizations are empirically examined. Significant relationships between virtuousness and both perceived a…
Evolution of a drug trafficking network
There is a growing body of research using social network analysis to study criminal networks. The great majority of this research examines networks at a single time point. Although there are theoretical approaches which hypothesise on how criminal networks develop and grow, little empirical research has been conducted on the growth of criminal networks over time. This project documents the growth of a drug trafficking network. The aims were to ex…
Criminal network vulnerabilities and adaptations
The current paper aimed to investigate the effectiveness of five law enforcement interventions in disrupting and dismantling criminal networks. We tested three law enforcement interventions that targeted social capital in criminal networks (betweenness, degree and cut-set) and two interventions that targeted human capital (actors who possess money and those who possess precursor chemicals). These five interventions are compared with each other an…
Ventriloquism as Method
This article argues for ventriloquism as a method of (post)qualitative inquiry for appropriating the voice of the Other and amplifying multi-voiced selves. Thinking with embodied figures, ventriloquism captures philosophical conceptions of the subject and object through the self and other. To sustain the existence of 'abject' voices, we orient readers' attention to the creative feature of the 'material dimension' through literary devices. The del…
Networks within networks
Understanding criminal networks can aid in the identification of key players and important relationships within the network. We examined multiple, directed link types in a criminal network. Eight distinct link types were identified, each one related to the exchange of a particular resource (e.g. drugs, money). The analyses focused on the eight link-type network layers and a merged network representing links across all eight layers. We were able t…
Reprint of
Assessing variation in co-offending networks
The current study aims to expand the geographic breadth of co-offending research by providing one of the first examinations of co-offending within Australia. We find co-offending was more common for some crimes than others. Individuals arrested for homicide had some of the highest co-offending rates and were more frequently observed in the core of the co-offending network. Females had higher rates of co-offending than males, and differences betwe…
Taking crime guns seriously
This article argues that guns, as objects used in and for crime, have received insufficient criminological attention. It proposes a socio-material perspective for taking crime guns seriously as material agents in the ways many serious crimes are planned and executed. Drawing in part upon affordance theory, the perspective links the ‘objective’ physical properties of guns to their allure and take up for the purposes of carrying out crime. Guns are…
On the Durability of Terrorist Networks
This article conducts a social network analysis (SNA) on discrete groups of Australian-based jihadists across three time periods and then compares these groups to an aggregated network. The aim of this analysis is to potentially reveal hidden connections between seemingly separate groups that could facilitate the flow of information and resources. Results reveal the presence of a number of key actors who appear to connect groups across different …
Loafers Are Not Going to Subsist upon Public Credulence
Between 1900 and 1904, rapid growth in population and industrial production transformed Calgary. It was also a period in which those arrested and charged with vagrancy appeared before the local police court in increasing numbers. Previous studies have suggested that the prosecution of vagrants amounted to a form of social control. Reflecting the values of the dominant middle class, local authorities sought to suppress or reform anyone who rejecte…
Becoming-City
Becoming-city explores the encounter between Self and Other in Hanoi, Vietnam, through Deleuze's philosophy of difference. Theory, experience, history, literature, language, and data are combined in order to ask what it is that individuates subject and object. Deleuze's philosophy of difference is used to explore and push problems of difference and identity to their limits through writing of the encounter between individual and city. This encount…
Ransomware HR
I Know a Guy and He's Got Guns Galore
Despite there being a highly regulated firearms market, Australian criminals continue to have significant access to illicit firearms. This paper focuses specifically on the role of brokers in the illicit firearms market. It draws from 75 in-depth interviews with prisoners convicted of serious gun-related crimes in Australia. We note how these actors occupy the margins of our interview data yet are seemingly central to the supply and circulation o…
The Limits of Labour
Speech-thinking and translation
This article explores the practice of translation, in dialogue with Rosenstock-Huessy’s sociological philosophy. The intention is to reinvigorate his concept of ‘speech-thinking’ and shed light on the intricate relationship between language, thought, and reality. Through an exploration of translation’s position at the interface of cultural otherness, we argue that speech-thinking offers deep analytical insight into the inner workings of human exi…
The dynamics of criminal collaboration
This study examines how social embeddedness and multiplex relationships shape criminal collaboration within organized crime networks. Drawing on data from three major investigations into the ‘Ndrangheta, we analyze how kinship, clan affiliation, leadership, and prior interactions influence participation in meetings and phone calls. Using relational hyperevent models, we assess the dynamic and multiplex nature of these networks across time and inv…
The criminal activities and operational roles of Australian neo-jihadists
Despite the significant global repercussions of terrorism, including loss of lives and economic resources, research on its relationship with crime has been limited to group-level analyses. This study examines the individual criminal activities of Australian Neo-Jihadists, via social network analysis from an individual perspective. Judicial documents and newspaper articles are analysed to determine the criminal activities and operational roles of …
Exploring interrelationships between high-level drug trafficking and other serious and organised crime
Drug trafficking is frequently argued to be the leading driver of other serious and organised crime, but the interrelationships between such activities remain poorly understood. This paper uses open source law enforcement data to explore interrelationships in Australia. A database was compiled of all reported criminal incidents of high-level drug trafficking between 2011 and 2017 and any concurrent charges for other serious and organised crime (S…
We Are All Kin
Recent labour historiography on the strike wave of 1919 has debated whether events are better explained within a framework of western exceptionalism (that is, stressing regional factors) or of a national revolt (that is stressing class tensions). A study of Calgary suggests that neither of these interpretations is fully satisfactory. Calgary workers, by 1919, certainly displayed a class identity and a class consciousness, but these were tempered …
We Are All Kin
Recent labour historiography on the strike wave of 1919 has debated whether events are better explained within a framework of western exceptionalism (that is, stressing regional factors) or of a national revolt (that is stressing class tensions). A study of Calgary suggests that neither of these interpretations is fully satisfactory. Calgary workers, by 1919, certainly displayed a class identity and a class consciousness, but these were tempered …
Loafers Are Not Going to Subsist upon Public Credulence
Between 1900 and 1904, rapid growth in population and industrial production transformed Calgary. It was also a period in which those arrested and charged with vagrancy appeared before the local police court in increasing numbers. Previous studies have suggested that the prosecution of vagrants amounted to a form of social control. Reflecting the values of the dominant middle class, local authorities sought to suppress or reform anyone who rejecte…
The State, the Unemployed, and the Communist Party in Calgary, 1930-5
The On-to-Ottawa trek arrived in Calgary in July 1935, its first stop in any major city outside British Columbia and the first test of its determination to continue eastwards. That Calgary’s civic authorities and general public provided an encouraging reception for the trekkers helped them to pass this test. Over the previous five years, however, relations between Calgary’s own unemployed and the local state had steadily grown worse, frequently t…
The Making of Western Labor Radicals
The Other Woman
In 1929, the British Privy Council reversed an earlier ruling by Canada's Supreme Court that Canadian women did not, under the British North America Act, qualify as persons. Historians have long heralded this so-called ‘Persons Case’ as a turning point in the recognition of Canadian women's rights. However, little attention has been paid to the case's origins, which date back to the trial of an alleged prostitute in Calgary in 1917. That case suc…
The Limits of Labour
The West Wants in
The west wants in” was the rallying cry of the Reform Party launched in 1987. What the West wanted, how its aspirations could be fulfilled within Confederation, and how fulfilling them might change Canada itself came to dominate the party’s agenda over the next decade or so. The West’s relationship to the rest of the country has also been a major theme in Canadian labour history, of ten with respect to notions of “western radicalism” or “western …
A Square Deal for All and No Railroading
Exploring the Relationships between Organizational Virtuousness and Performance
The importance of virtuousness in organizations has recently been acknowledged in the organizational sciences, but research remains scarce. This article defines virtuousness and connects it to scholarly literature in organizational science. An empirical study is described in which the relationships between virtuousness and performance in 18 organizations are empirically examined. Significant relationships between virtuousness and both perceived a…
Retail price as an outcome measure for the effectiveness of drug law enforcement
Illuminating dark networks
Evolution of a drug trafficking network
There is a growing body of research using social network analysis to study criminal networks. The great majority of this research examines networks at a single time point. Although there are theoretical approaches which hypothesise on how criminal networks develop and grow, little empirical research has been conducted on the growth of criminal networks over time. This project documents the growth of a drug trafficking network. The aims were to ex…
Networks within networks
Understanding criminal networks can aid in the identification of key players and important relationships within the network. We examined multiple, directed link types in a criminal network. Eight distinct link types were identified, each one related to the exchange of a particular resource (e.g. drugs, money). The analyses focused on the eight link-type network layers and a merged network representing links across all eight layers. We were able t…
Social network analysis of Australian poly-drug trafficking networks
Criminal network vulnerabilities and adaptations
The current paper aimed to investigate the effectiveness of five law enforcement interventions in disrupting and dismantling criminal networks. We tested three law enforcement interventions that targeted social capital in criminal networks (betweenness, degree and cut-set) and two interventions that targeted human capital (actors who possess money and those who possess precursor chemicals). These five interventions are compared with each other an…
Becoming-City
Becoming-city explores the encounter between Self and Other in Hanoi, Vietnam, through Deleuze's philosophy of difference. Theory, experience, history, literature, language, and data are combined in order to ask what it is that individuates subject and object. Deleuze's philosophy of difference is used to explore and push problems of difference and identity to their limits through writing of the encounter between individual and city. This encount…
The Wilful Character of Indigenous Educational Research
In her recent work, Sara Ahmed explores wilfulness as a negative charge made by some against others, thinking about the relationship between ill will and good will, the particular and the general, and the embeddedness of will in a political and cultural landscape. In Ahmed's reading, wilfulness is a characteristic often ascribed to those who do 'not will the reproduction of the whole' (2011, p. 246) - those who are deemed wayward, wandering, and/…
On the Durability of Terrorist Networks
This article conducts a social network analysis (SNA) on discrete groups of Australian-based jihadists across three time periods and then compares these groups to an aggregated network. The aim of this analysis is to potentially reveal hidden connections between seemingly separate groups that could facilitate the flow of information and resources. Results reveal the presence of a number of key actors who appear to connect groups across different …
Illicit Network Dynamics
Exploring interrelationships between high-level drug trafficking and other serious and organised crime
Drug trafficking is frequently argued to be the leading driver of other serious and organised crime, but the interrelationships between such activities remain poorly understood. This paper uses open source law enforcement data to explore interrelationships in Australia. A database was compiled of all reported criminal incidents of high-level drug trafficking between 2011 and 2017 and any concurrent charges for other serious and organised crime (S…
Exploring the hidden social networks of ‘lone actor’ terrorists
Themes in sentencing young adults charged with serious violent crime involving alcohol and other drugs
The majority of young people in custody have alcohol and other drug problems and over 90% report past-year experiences of high-risk drinking and illicit drug use. Despite a strong link between drug use and violent offending, there is a dearth of information about how this relationship plays out in sentencing young adult offenders. This study examines themes in the sentencing of drug-using young adults facing court for serious violent crime and de…
Organised Crime and Law Enforcement
Organised Crime and Law Enforcement
Organised Crime and Law Enforcement: A Network Perspective examines organised crime and law enforcement through the conceptual lens of networks. The book takes stock of the many ways in which network theories and concepts, including social network analysis, can apply to studying both organised crime and law enforcement responses to organised crime. It is the first attempt to bring these diverse network perspectives and distinct fields of research…
Understanding the structure and composition of co-offending networks in Australia
A large volume of criminal offending involves two or more individuals acting collaboratively. In recent years, much contemporary research on group crime has integrated research on co-offending with the study of criminal networks. However, while this research (mostly from the United States and Canada) is generating significant insights into co-offending, there is a notable absence of research on co-offending and co-offending networks in Australia.…
Political science (31 obras) · Sociology (29 obras) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (28 obras) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (27 obras) · Criminology (27 obras) · Psychology (27 obras) · Computer Science (24 obras) · Law (24 obras) · Business (14 obras) · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk (12 obras)