The National Drug Control Strategy is designed to address all aspects of drug abuse: drug use, drug trafficking, and drug-related crimes. The nine-pronged program encompasses efforts at the federal, state, and local levels, forming a partnership between government and the private and public sectors. The strategy includes prevention initiatives that reduce the demand for drugs; individualized tr...

A major challenge facing all law-enforcement and intelligence-gathering organizations is accurately and efficiently analyzing the growing volumes of crime data. Cybercrime refers to any crime that involves a computer and network, where computer may or may not play an instrumental part in the commission of the crime. Detection and investigation of cybercrime can likewise be difficult because bus...

Ninhydrin reagents are currently used for amino acid determination. However, ninhydrin reacts with amino groups of amino acids and other components of palmar sweat to develop Ruheman’s purple. Therefore, it was used on a large scale to fingerprint development. Another recent application of ninhydrin is related to trace cyanide detection and determination. However, this simple compound may have ...

The Policing and Reducing Crime Unit (PRC Unit) was formed in 1998 as a result of the merger of the Police Research Group (PRG) and the Research and Statistics Directorate. The PRC Unit is now one part of the Research, Development and Statistics Directorate of the Home Office. The PRC Unit carries out and commissions research in the social and management sciences on policing and crime reduction...

Recent improvements in the detection of alkylated aromatic compounds from gasoline accelerants in arson debris use expensive GC-MS-MS instrumentation that is not available to most crime laboratories. This research project uses solid-phase microextraction (SPME), an inexpensive pre-concentration method, to achieve high sensitivities in the analysis of alkylated aromatic compounds.

An intertemporal general equilibrium model of criminal behavior is used to analyze the effect on crime of changing policy parameters. The policy parameters are the length of the prison term, the severity of punishment, and the amount of police resources. The number of crimes in society can be decomposed into an incentive part, an incarceration part, and a crime competition part. The magnitudes ...

In today’s security conscious environment, the primary concern of security professionals and police departments is to protect the lives and property of citizens. Any act that causes loss of lives and harms people is called as crime. Crime analysis, a part of criminology, is a task that includes exploring and detecting crimes and their relationships with criminals. Presently there are several cr...

Part I.—Economic Factors and Crime. Crime is a great source of waste. Millions worth of property is destroyed by criminal activity every year, in every country of any importance. Lakhs of rupees are spent on detection of crime and on bringing to book the offenders. Thousands of men are sent to prisons when their crimes are detected, and they have to be fed and housed at State cost. It is true t...

The ATRIUM project aims to the automatic detection of threats hidden under clothes using millimetre-wave imaging. We describe a simulator of realistic millimetre-wave images and a system for detecting metallic weapons automatically. The latter employs two stages, detection and tracking. We present a detector for metallic objects based on mixture models, and a target tracker based on particle fi...