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This book shares essential insights into how the social sciences and technology could foster new advances in managing the complexity inherent to the criminal and digital policing landscape. Said landscape is both dynamic and intricate, emanating as it does from crimes that are both persistent and transnational. Globalization, human and drug trafficking, cybercrime, terrorism, and other forms of transnational crime can have significant impacts on societies around the world. This necessitates a reassessment of what crime, national security and policing mean. Recent global events such as human and drug trafficking, the COVID-19 pandemic, violent protests, cyber threats and terrorist activities underscore the vulnerabilities of our current security and digital policing posture. This book presents concepts, theories and digital policing applications, offering a comprehensive analysis of current and emerging trends in digital policing. Pursuing an evidence-based approach, it offers an extraordinarily perceptive and detailed view of issues and solutions regarding the crime and digital policing landscape. To this end, it highlights current technological and methodological solutions as well as advances concerning integrated computational and analytical solutions deployed in digital policing. It also provides a comprehensive analysis of the technical, ethical, legal, privacy and civil liberty challenges stemming from the aforementioned advances in the field of digital policing; and accordingly, offers detailed recommendations supporting the design and implementation of best practices including technical, ethical and legal approaches when conducting digital policing. The research gathered here fits well into the larger body of work on various aspects of AI, cybersecurity, national security, digital forensics, cyberterrorism, ethics, human rights, cybercrime and law. It provides a valuable reference for law enforcement, policymakers, cybersecurity experts, digital forensic practitioners, researchers, graduates and advanced undergraduates, and other stakeholders with an interest in counter-terrorism. In addition to this target audience, it offers a valuable tool for lawyers, criminologist and technology enthusiasts

1. Great Power Competition Russia's Invasion of Ukraine -- 2. How the Ukraine war will impact U.S Special Force Operations -- 3. The Impact of Ukraine War on the Middle East in the Context of Great Power Competition -- 4. Great Power Competition and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine -- 5. Understanding the Mental Health of Ukrainian Refugees in Europe -- 6. Learning the wrong lessons from Russia's invasion: Russia's cyberspace lessons learned -- 7. Why Putin Gambled on Russian Military Mobilization -- 8. Great Power Clashes Will Reshape America: Case Study of Ukraine -- 9. The Effect of the Ukrainian War on Central Asia -- 10. Russia's Invasion and the U.S. Response: The view from the Middle East and Central Asia -- 11. Is Russia Fascist? Unravelling Propaganda East and West on the Ukrainian conflict -- 12. How the Ukraine invasion will impact Russia-Iran relations -- 13. Security in the 21st Century: Democracy and Transatlantic Values in an Age of Great Power Competition -- 14. Learning the wrong lessons from Russia's invasion: Russia's cyberspace lessons learned -- 15. Ukraine: An examination of the evolving humanitarian crisis -- 16. Russia–Ukraine crisis: China's Belt Road Initiative Role -- 17. Success or Failure: Intelligence in Ukraine and what it Signals for the Future -- 18. Moral Injury and Moral Crisis in Ukraine -- 19. How China-U.S. Cooperation will impact the Ukraine War -- 20. Weighing the Costs of War and Peace in Ukraine.

1. How We Got Here: The Rise of Cyber Conflict from 1991 to 2021 -- 2. The Great Cyber Talent Competition -- 3. Alternate Reality: The Use of Disinformation to Normalize Extremism -- 4. The Future of Cyber-Enabled Influence Operations: Emergent Technologies, Misinformation, and the Destruction of Democracy -- 5. Cybersecurity and Strategic Deterrence -- 6. When the Levee Breaks: A Global Trend of Cyber-Physical and Cyber-Operational Attacks against Critical Infrastructure and Future Implications on the Great Power Competition -- 7. Cyber Threats to Critical Infrastructure -- 8. Are China and Russia on the Cyber Offensive in Latin American and the Caribbean? -- 9. Russian and Chinese Cyber Involvement with Latin America -- 10. Cyber Leadership and the Era of the Great Power Competition -- 11. Global Alliances & Partnerships in the Modern Great Power Competition -- 12. Pacific Partners: Security Cooperation in the Great Power Competition -- 13. Countering Violent Extremism in Cyber Space: A New Frontier for the Great Power Cooperation -- 14. Thinking Globally, Acting Locally – Why a Targeted Approach to Russia, China, and the Proxy Cyber War is a Global Solution -- 15. Leveraging Talent to Dominate in Cyber: An Army Perspective.

Intro -- Introduction -- Policing and Crime Prevention -- Policing Tools and Strategies -- Contents -- Part I: Policing and Crime Prevention -- How Offender Decision-making Can Inform Policing: A Focus on the Perceived Certainty of Apprehension -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Deterrence-Based Policing Strategies -- 2.1 Random Preventative Patrol -- 2.2 Increasing the Number of Police -- 2.3 Hot Spots Policing -- 2.4 Problem-Oriented Policing -- 3 Recent Innovations in Offender Decision-making Research -- 3.1 Updating Perceptions -- 3.2 Tipping Points and Threshold Effects -- 3.3 Ambiguity -- 4 Future Directions -- References -- An Epidemiological Framework for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorist Networks -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Epidemiology -- 3 Understanding Complexity: Cynefin -- 4 Connecting Epidemiology and Policing Practices -- 5 Applications of Epidemiological Concepts in Policing Operations -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Sex Offenders' Forensic Awareness Strategies to Avoid Police Detection -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Avoiding Police Detection for Sex Offenders: A Rational Choice Perspective -- 3 What Lead Sex Offenders to Avoid Police Detection? -- 3.1 CSI Effect -- 3.2 Previous Criminal History -- 4 Why Do Some Sex Offenders Not Use FAS? -- 5 How Do Sex Offenders Use Forensic Awareness? -- 6 Is the Use of FAS a Specific Feature of Sexual Offenders? -- 7 Does the Use of FAS Allow Sex Offenders to Avoid Police Detection? -- 8 Criminal Investigations and Forensic Identification -- 8.1 Theory of Forensic Evidence in Sexual Crime Investigation -- 8.2 Detection of Forensic Evidence in Practice -- 8.3 Police Efficiency to Detect and Analyze Forensic Evidences -- 8.4 Investigative Failures -- 9 Conclusion -- References -- Tracking Terrorism: The Role of Technology in Risk Assessment and Monitoring of Terrorist Offenders -- 1 Introduction.

Forward -- Section 1 Emerging threats -- Plagues, Epidemics and Pandemics; R. Izurieta -- Agricultural Emergencies: Factors and Impacts in the Spread of Transboundary Diseases in, and adjacent to, Agriculture -- The Threat within: mitigating the risk of medical error -- Climate Change, Extreme Weather Events and Global Health Security- A lens into vulnerabilities; C. Bell, A. Masys -- Global Health Biosecurity in a Vulnerable World – An Evaluation of Emerging Threats and Current Disaster Preparedness Strategies for the Future -- The emerging threat of Ebola -- Section 2: Mitigation, Preparedness and Response and Recovery -- Natural and Manmade Disasters: Vulnerable Populations -- Sexual Violence -- Global Health Security and Weapons of Mass Destruction; C. Reynolds -- Antimicrobial Resistance in One Health -- Food Security – microbiological and chemical risks -- Section 3: Exploring the technology Landscape for Solutions. Gaussianization of variational Bayesian approximations with correlated non-nested non-negligible posterior mean random effects employing non-negativity constraint analogs and analytical depossinization for iteratively fitting capture point, Aedes aegypti habitat non-zero autocorrelated prognosticators: A case study in evidential probabilities for non-frequentistic forecast epi-entomological time series modeling of arboviral infections -- Simulation, Modeling and Telemedicine in Global Health Security; A. French -- The growing role of social media in international health security: The good, the bad, and the ugly -- Section 4: Leadership and partnerships. Effecting Collective Impact through Collective Leadership on a Foundation of Generative Relationships -- Global Health Innovations.

"The book explores the development of systems philosophy, theory, practice, its models, concepts and methodologies developed as an aid for improving decision making and problem solving for the benefit of organizations and the wider society. The book also embraces all aspects of social concerns from environmental issues and organizational concerns to health and social well-being"--