CRIME PREVENTION AND
DATA TRANSPARENCY
David Maimon and Charlotte Alexander
The CLEAR Initiative will work at the intersection of law, criminology and data science to make clear the patterns and mechanisms of criminal activity and criminal legal systems. The team will be led by Charlotte Alexander in the J. Mack Robinson College of Business and the College of Law and David Maimon in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies.
This team of researchers will focus on solving some of the greatest security threats by harnessing data and information to protect consumers from identity theft and safeguard the rights of crime victims by combining legal analytics and artificial intelligence with real-time information to preserve crime data for analysis. They will also improve visibility into the criminal legal system by analyzing thousands of court records. Together, this partnership has the power to elevate Georgia State into a national leader for consumer fraud protection, criminal legal data transparency and access to justice.
About the Researchers
Charlotte Alexander
Robinson College of Business, College of Law and Legal Analytics Lab
Charlotte’s work will focus on the criminal legal process. Her research team will build a data infrastructure: the Criminal Legal Events Analysis and Research initiative (CLEAR) to harvest granular, process-level data from public court records to develop a public-facing online legal data hub.
2022 Project RISE Award: $250,000
David Maimon
Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research Group, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology
David’s research team of criminologists, economists and computer scientists will build a platform to alert major credit bureaus when someone is the victim of identity theft in near real time. The project will partner with and connect the Identity Theft Resource Center and Experian.
2022 Project RISE Award: $250,000