Magnus Andersson

Political Science and Intelligence Analysis

Research and Areas of Interest

• Intelligence Analysis
• Risk Analysis
• Decision making in Law Enforcement
• Terrorism and Organized Crime
• Criminal policy
• Security policy
• Network Theory
• Game Theory

Current research

Operational crime fighting is most often done through a police operation with the purpose to prevent, deter, avert, detect or prosecute a criminal project that is being conducted by a crime or terrorist group. The police and other law enforcement authorities conduct crime fighting operations in the form of cases, which can have both an intelligence and investigative component. My research focuses on the study of decision making in both the police operation as well as in the criminal project and the dynamic relationship between the two decision making processes.

Thereby the focus is on how the police, as a street-level bureaucrat, implements crime fighting policy and its effect on the crime project. Using a combined framework based on game theory, bounded rationality and decision theory a number of criminal projects are studied focused on decisions and strategic choices that the police intelligence and investigative team does in relation to the choices made by the criminal group. The research aims at developing a theoretical model for decision making in police operations and its significance for the implementation of crime fighting policy.

Background