Mapping Cyber-Enabled Crime: Understanding Police Investigations and Prosecutions of Cyberstalking

On the complexity of collaborative cyber crime investigations

This article considers the challenges faced by digital evidence specialists when collaborating with other specialists and agencies in other jurisdictions when investigating cyber crime. The opportunities, operational environment and modus operandi of a cyber criminal are considered, with a view to developing the skills and procedural support that investigators might usefully consider in order t...

Cyber Crime Scene Investigations (C²SI) through Cloud Computing

Cloud computing brings opportunities for network forensics tracing Internet criminals in the distributed environment. We may use the new “pay-as-you-go” model of the cloud computing to deploy the on-demand cyber surveillance sentinels and conduct distributed traceback in complicated cyber crime scene investigations. To trace criminals abusing anonymous communication networks such as Tor, law en...

Police Patrols and Crime∗

An influential literature has used the aftermath of terrorist attacks to estimate large effects of police street deployment on crime. However, the elasticities obtained in these settings may not easily extrapolate to more standard circumstances. This paper exploits a natural experiment that aimed to increase police presence in more than 6,000 well-defined areas, by economically-realistic amount...

Can Police Prevent Crime?

The Role of Victims in Criminal Investigations and Prosecutions

Throughout the criminal justice system, prosecutors have wide discretion to exercise their authority in determining what crimes should be prosecuted. This discretion has historic support through both constitutional separation of powers doctrines and public policy. This discretion is based on a variety of factors, including the severity of the crime, the extent of the evidence, prosecutorial res...