Crime datasets for quantitative methods
List of websites or platforms hosting crime datasets
Data.World
Datasets shared on Data.World. However, one needs to create an account
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
Datasets created by the United Nations on drugs and crime
Worldbank datasets (search for crime, drug, etc.)
"The Data Catalog is designed to make World Bank's development data easy to find, download, use, and share. It includes data from the World Bank's microdata, finances and energy data platforms, as well as datasets from the open data catalog..."
Crimes published by the city of Montreal
List of criminal acts recorded by the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM)
Crimes published by the city of Toronto
List of criminal acts published by the Toronto Police Service
USA data Gov (search from crime, drug, etc.)
Hundreds of crime datasets published by various government bodies in the US
Cybersecurity
Key websites for research and investigations in cybersecurity
VirusTotal
Search info on domain names and IP addresses
URL and Website Scanner
Website scanner for suspicious and malicious URLs
Awesome Malware Techniques
A curated list of resources to analyse and study malware techniques
';--have i been pwned?
Check if your email or phone is in a data breach
No More Ransom - Ransomware decryption tool
List of ransomware decryption tools
Survey on Perceptions and Practices of Cybersecurity Professionals
Survey that aimed at understanding how defenders perceive specific security measures and whether these measures were implemented in their respective organizations. The survey microdata is available online.
Real-CyberSecurity-Datasets
Public datasets to help you tackle various cyber security problems using Machine Learning or other means.
Economic crime
Key websites for research and investigations on economic crime
OCCRP Aleph
The global archive of research material for investigative reporting.
Financial Secrecy Index
The Financial Secrecy Index is a ranking of jurisdictions most complicit in helping individuals to hide their finances from the rule of law.
Worldwide Tax Summaries Online
Corporate and individual taxes in 150 territories worldwide from PWC
Global Scam Database
Global Scam Database
Fraude alerte
"Fraud-Alert.ca is the first community site in Canada to reference frauds encountered on the Internet. More than 4000 are currently listed!"
Arnaques et pratiques commerciales trompeuses courantes et manières de les éviter
"These short articles, originally issued by the Competition Bureau of the Government of Canada as consumer and business alerts, contain information on how you can avoid falling victim to deceptive marketing practices and scams."
Open Corporates
The Open Database Of The Corporate World
Violation Tracker
Discover Which Corporations are the Biggest Regulatory Violators and Lawbreakers Throughout the United States.
Basel AML Index
Data on money laundering risks around the world
Ponzitracker
Website tracking Ponzi schemes in the USA
Open Sanctions Dataset
OpenSanctions is an international database of persons and companies of political, criminal, or economic interest. The project combines the sanctions lists, databases of politically exposed persons, and other information about persons in the public interest into a single, easy-to-use dataset.
Tools
Open source tools developed by lab members
Community broker score
The community broker score quantifies brokers reach and control at the meso level in social networks. The measure was developed in: Paquet-Clouston, M., Bouchard, M. (2022) A Robust Measure to Uncover Community Brokerage in Illicit Networks. Journal of Quantitative Criminology https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-022-09549-6
Statistics tools and resources
A curated list of useful open source tools and resources for statistics for social scientists
Introduction to R
Introduction to R