Behavioral evidence analysis on Facebook: a test of cyber-profiling
Yu, Sz De
Yu, Sz De
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2013
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Profiling,Behavior,Evidence,Analysis,Facebook,Criminology,Survey
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Yu, Szde. 2013. Behavioral evidence analysis on Facebook: a test of cyber-profiling. Defendology, v.16, no.33: 19-30.
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This article applies criminal profiling in a cyber-context. More precisely, a deductive profiling method, behavioral evidence analysis, is adopted to develop cyber-profiling that aims to analyze the subject’s online behaviors. In the present study, Facebook.com was chosen as the research site and cyber-profi ling was applied to analyze Facebook users’ online behavioral evidence. The goal was to predict some of their personality traits, namely self-control. The information revealed by the user was regarded as online behavioral evidence. Profiling based on such evidence successfully identify most people with low self-control, as confirmed by the participants themselves. The results show that accurate profiling is achievable, although cyber-profiling on Facebook by no means can represent the full scope of cyber-profiling.
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European Defendology Center (Banja Luka, Serbia)
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Defendology, scholarly journal for protection, security, defense, education and training issues;v.16 no.33
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2233-0895