When a crime is committed by an individual of one race against an individual of another race, there is the possibility that the crime is a hate crime. Legislation often mandates harsher penalties for perpetrators convicted of crimes determined to be hate crimes, yet this determination is difficult to make. This study used vignettes of violent crimes to examine how the races of the perpetrators ...

Successful situational crime prevention measures tend to be characterized by their crime-specific approach, and by their considerable knowledge about how the crime In question was committed. Beyond these general prescriptions for approaching the tasks of crime analysis and crime control, however, little further guidance Is available. This paper borrows a concept from cognitive science—the notio...

Crimes after all is a crime and these are committed almost everywhere without fail with varies rate. High rate, in any society, may cause challenges for inhabitants to live peacefully. But the crimes not similar nature. There many different types of sub-categories within them, including positive negative crimes. Positive both have pillars nexus, acts lead consideration execution punishment. Pun...

Recent discussions of ‘cybercrime’ focus upon the apparent novelty or otherwise of the phenomenon. Some authors claim that such crime is not qualitatively different from ‘terrestrial crime’, and can be analysed and explained using established theories of crime causation. One such approach, oft cited, is the ‘routine activity theory’ developed by Marcus Felson and others. This article explores t...

In this paper we argue that crime drama exemplified in television programs such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is an ideal testbed for approximating real-world natural language understanding and the complex inferences associated with it. We propose to treat crime drama as a new inference task, capitalizing on the fact that each episode poses the same basic question (i.e., who committed the c...

This paper investigates the link between youth unemployment and crime using a unique combination of labor market and conviction data spanning the entire Swedish working-age population over an extended period. The empirical analysis reveals large and statistically significant effects of unemployment on several types of crime. The magnitude of the effect is similar across different subgroups of t...

Geographic profiling is a tool used by law enforcement to predict the location of a serial criminal’s next crime. A typical geographic profile outputs estimated probabilities with the input of time and location of previous crimes. In this paper, we develop a new geographic profile that is able to incorporate demographical observations while remaining an effective predictor. We assume that (1) t...