With theincrease in internet technology cyber-attacks have also increased, most of the sufferers from these cyber-attacks are novice windows end users. Windows is more popular due to the ease in use, and effective GUI; due to the unavailability of windows component source code the crime investigations in windows environment is a tedious and hectic job for law enforcement agencies. The unsystema...

This chapter explores changes and continuities in the drug-crime relationship during the past several decades. First, we discuss the relationship in a historical context highlighting changes in U.S. Federal policy. Next, we examine the key methodological issues involved in empirically understanding the drug-crime connection. In this section we identify inconsistencies in definitions and measure...

In this article, the author gives a criminological description of modern female crime in Republic Uzbekistan as basis for subsequent development system measures its prevention and counteraction. The article studies classification crimes committed by women Uzbekistan. Quantitative indicators level over past decade are given, allowing us to assess trends dynamics. Based on specific features crime...

The traditional methods of registering crime scene, such as photographs, sketches, videos and oral descriptions, etc., are lowly efficient and couldn’t meet the requirement. In this paper, a new method for crime scene reconstruction which combines the virtual reality techniques with efficient interaction is hereby proposed. The new techniques, such as close-range photogrammetry, panorama photog...

The United States is currently recovering from a broad recession that is considered the longest-lasting economic downturn since World War II. Various indicators of economic strength, such as the unemployment rate and foreclosures, reached their worst showings in decades during the recession and the following months. The current state of the economy has continued to spark debate concerning wheth...

Criminologists and crime prevention practitioners are increasingly aware of the importance of places of crime. A place is a very small area, usually a street corner, address, building, or street segment. A focus on crime places contrasts with a focus on neighborhoods. Neighborhood theories usually highlight the development of offenders. while place level explanations emphasize crime events. Thr...

The mechanisms driving the nucleation, spread, and dissipation of crime hotspots are poorly understood. As a consequence, the ability of law enforcement agencies to use mapped crime patterns to design crime prevention strategies is severely hampered. We also lack robust expectations about how different policing interventions should impact crime. Here we present a mathematical framework based on...

From one election to another, crime remains one of the biggest social and political issues, and it is a favourite subject of campaign promises by politicians. Crime imposes large costs onto society which are not taken into account by official measures of well-being and happiness of the nations. In addition, crime responds to economic conditions and incentives, which is well accepted among econo...

Recent studies have produced conflicting findings about the impacts of local nonresidential land uses on perceived incivilities. This study advances work in this area by developing a land-use perspective theoretically grounded in Brantingham and Brantingham’s geometry of crime model in environmental criminology. That focus directs attention to specific classes of land uses and suggests relevanc...