Problems With Police Reports as Data Sources: A Researchers' Perspective

GDPC: connecting researchers with multiple integrated data sources

UNLABELLED The goal of this project is to simplify access to genomic diversity and phenotype data, thereby encouraging reuse of this data. The Genomic Diversity and Phenotype Connection (GDPC) accomplishes this by retrieving data from one or more data sources and by allowing researchers to analyze integrated data in a standard format. GDPC is written in JAVA and provides (1) data sources availa...

Verbal Reports as Data

The central proposal of this article is that verbal reports are data. Accounting for verbal reports, as for other kinds of data, requires explication of the mechanisms by which the reports are generated, and the ways in which they are sensitive to experimental factors (instructions, tasks, etc.). Within the theoretical framework of human information processing, we discuss different types of pro...

The Police Perspective

TO EXAMINE CHANGING PATTERNS OF HOMICIDE, STATISTICAL DATA WHICH IS gathered by the investigators or through the judicial process is generally relied upon. Available statistics indicate little change in the number of reported homicides in Victoria in recent years. Likewise, it is generally recognised that 'domestic' murders account for a significant percentage of the annual homicide figures. No...

Extracting Meaningful Entities from Police Narrative Reports

Valuable criminal-justice data in free texts such as police narrative reports are currently difficult to be accessed and used by intelligence investigators in crime analyses. It would be desirable to automatically identify from text reports meaningful entities, such as person names, addresses, narcotic drugs, or vehicle names to facilitate crime investigation. In this paper, we report our work ...

Crime in Rural Nsw: a Police Perspective