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Desmond Arias

CUNY Baruch College
Enrique Desmond Arias is the Marxe Chair in Western Hemisphere Affairs.  He holds a B.A. from Johns Hopkins, and a M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin. His research focuses on security and politics in Latin America and the Caribbean. He is the author of Criminal Enterprises and Governance in Latin America and the Caribbean (Cambridge University Press) Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: Trafficking, Social Networks, and Public Security (University of North Carolina Press) and is co-editor of Violent Democracies in Latin America published (Duke University Press).

E. Desmond Arias

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CUNY Baruch College

Investigator

  • Tracing Networks of Gangs using Data Analytics
  • Human Trafficking Hubs
  • Forecasting Gang Homicides with Multi-level Multi-task Learning

Author

  • Forecasting Gang Homicides with Multi-level Multi-task Learning
  • Human Trafficking Hubs

Topics:

  • Gangs
  • Networks

Research Areas:

  • Criminal network analysis
  • Gang networks
  • Human trafficking
  • Illicit supply and value chains

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