<P>The internet has launched the world into an era into which enormous amounts of data are</P><P>generated every day through technologies with both positive and negative consequences.</P><P>This often refers to <I>big data </I>. This book explores big data in organisations operating in the</P><P>criminology and criminal justice fields.</P><P>Big data entails a major disruption in the ways we think about and do things, which</P><P>certainly applies to most organisations including those operating in the criminology and</P><P>criminal justice fields. Big data is currently disrupting processes in most organisations - how</P><P>different organisations collaborate with one another, how organisations develop products</P><P>or services, how organisations can identify, recruit, and evaluate talent, how organisations</P><P>can make better decisions based on empirical evidence rather than intuition, and how</P><P>organisations can quickly implement any transformation plan, to name a few.</P><P>Al