Developed by Andrew Papachristos, NAVCAP allows users to examine co-arrest (or other event) data in which individuals or groups are linked to each other through “co-participation,” i.e., they were arrested together, listed as defendants together, participated in a program together, were co-involved in an event, and so on. This software allows the user to visualize the entire dataset, to zoom in on specified subsets of the data, to build “ego-networks’ are individuals or groups, to explore the details of particular events and individuals, and to export the work to other formats. The software is built upon the igrpah library, the statistical package R, and the network software NodeXL.
