Iain Carmichael and Michael Kim recently gave a presentation at the PyData Carolinas conference on the topic of Networks and the Law. For their talk they analyzed
the data from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) and the National Survey of American Life (NSAL) to determine the relationship between social networks and crime.

The NCVS is a national survey of about 30,000 households that asks respondents about their experiences with crime. The NSAL is