Professor David Bright
Professor
Institution
Deakin University
Research Area Keywords
Terrorism; Organised crime; Illicit networks; Social network analysis.
Contact: david.bright@deakin.edu.au
About David
Professor David Bright is a criminologist and forensic psychologist. His research interests include criminal networks, organised crime, illicit firearms, and terrorism. He is an internationally recognised expert in the use of social network analysis and related approaches to study organised criminal groups and terrorist groups. Professor Bright has been Chief Investigator on six consecutive ARC funded projects in addition to receiving funding from other industry and government sources. His recently published book (co-authored with Professor Chad Whelan), Organised Crime and Law Enforcement: A Network Perspective, examines organised crime and law enforcement through the conceptual lens of networks.
Publications
Books
Organised Crime and Law Enforcement: A Network Perspective (2021)
Bright DA and Whelan C
Book Chapters
Transnational organised crime: A network perspective (in press)
Bright DA and Levia A
in Routledge Handbook of Organised Crime, Allum F and Gilmour S (eds)
Exploring the relational properties of networked intelligence systems (2020)
Whelan C and Bright DA
in Policing Transnational Crime: Law Enforcement of Criminal Flows, Hufnagel S and Moiseienko A (eds.)
Journal articles
Using social network analysis to study crime: Navigating the challenges of criminal justice records (2021)
Bright DA, Brewer R and Morselli C
The organisational structure, social networks and criminal activities of Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (2021)
Bright DA and Deegan S
Taking Crime Guns Seriously: A Socio-material Perspective (2020)
Goldsmith A, Halsey M and Bright DA
Innovations in research on illicit networks (2020)
Bright DA and Brewer R
On the durability of terrorist networks: Revealing the hidden connections between Australian Jihadist cells (2020)
Bright DA, Whelan C and Harris-Hogan S
Exploring the hidden social networks of ‘lone actor’ terrorists (2020)
Bright DA, Whelan C and Harris-Hogan S
Understanding the structure and composition of co-offending networks in Australia (2020)
Bright DA, Whelan C and Morselli C
Grants and Projects
‘International review of terrorist recidivism’
Whelan C and Bright DA
AVERT/AFP, 2021
$14,000
‘Exploring the social networks and organisational dynamics of Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs’
Bright DA
Australian Institute of Criminology, 2019-2020 .
$47,080
‘Pathways to radicalisation: Using Social Network Analysis to detect harmful and protective influences within social networks’
Koskinen J, Bright DA and Whelan C
Victorian State Government, 2019-2020
$77,000
‘Developing automated audio and facial recognition biometrics tools for detecting child exploitation material’
Westlake B, Brewer R, Ross A and Bright DA
Australian Institute of Criminology, 2019-2020
$119,000
‘Reducing Aboriginal imprisonment: An offence-specific study’
Halsey M and Bright DA
ARC Discovery DP180101706, 2018-2021
$378,756