The Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory

Sherlock Holmes: Father of Scientific Crime and Detection

The laboratory aspects of sexual crime.

There are two groups of offences in this country in which the police have normally sought the help of the medical profession, namely, the various crimes involving violence-such as murder, attempted murder, grievous bodily harm, and the likeand the whole range of sexual offences. Since the establishment during the last decade of government-sponsored forensic science laboratories, help from these...

Crime and punishment in scientific research

Arguments against scientific misconduct one finds in the literature generally fail to support current policies on research fraud: they may not prove wrong what is typically considered research misconduct and they tend to make wrong things that are not usually seen as scientific fraud, in particular honest errors. I argue that society cannot set a rule enjoining scientists to be honest, so any s...

Sociology. Scientific misconduct: do the punishments fit the crime?

Crime Detection via Crowdsourcing

Abstract. In this paper we propose a novel yet simple scheme for criminal detection. Rather than tracking the criminal that committed a particular crime, the police will rank the houses suspected to host criminals according to patterns on citizens’ tips. We show that this strategy will provably identify the desired houses under reasonable assumptions. This will aid detectives decide where to fo...