Border Enforcement Analytics Program (BEAP)
Northeastern University’s Institute for Security and Public Policy (ISPP), within the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, has collaborated with the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology (DHS S&T) Directorate’s Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and Counter-Proliferation Investigations Unit (CPIU) on the development of the Border Enforcement Analytics Program (BEAP). BEAP provides advanced computing and analytical solutions that enable ICE and HSI to effectively combine and analyze multiple, large disparate data sets to increase enforcement effectiveness.
The Anti-Corruption Academic Initiative (ACAD)
ACAD is a collaborative academic project which aims to produce a comprehensive anti-corruption academic support tool composed of a menu of academic modules, syllabi, case studies, educational tools and reference materials on 20 different aspects of corruption and anti-corruption. ACAD is designed as an open source tool, offered online, free of charge, and for interested educational institutions, NGOs and citizens. Over 30 universities worldwide have participated in the Initiative which seeks to encourage the teaching of anti-corruption issues as part of courses such as law, business, criminology and political science in graduate and post-graduate courses.
ACAD was launched in May 2011 and is supported by Northeastern University and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) along with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the International Bar Association (IBA).
Research on Firearms Violence
Gun violence is a persistent problem in the United States and also in many other nations in the world. This program of work examines policies and initiatives to help control illicit transfer of firearms to prohibited persons and groups in the United States and internationally.
Trade Transparency and Control of Illicit Flows and Corruption Study
Due to the substantial trade volume today, it is extremely easy offenders to obscure high volumes of illicit flows that undermine economies, damage the environment, increase inequalities, and perpetuate corrupt and bad governance throughout the world. It is a continuing problem because of Customs and public corruption, and that there is no one looking comprehensively and across commodities and countries. There also is no single place that all trade data is available for comparisons and investigations. Illicit trade flows lead to financial catastrophes worldwide, but also affect security threats, environmental degradation, and malfunctioning public health and educational institutions. Dr. Nikos Passas proposes a solution to address this problem of illicit trade flows in the following study.
