This article presents a model describing symbiotic relationship between criminals and partnership of protection providers, called the Firm. The partners Firm earn profits as they have market power in supply protection. recruits its new among criminals. As result, prospect graduating to adds an incentive for violent crime. result is violence multiplier where more increases Firm, turn contributin...

Most of cyberscam-related studies focus on threats perpetrated against the Western society, with a particular attention to the USA and Europe. Regrettably, no research has been done on scams targeting African countries, especially Nigeria, where the notorious and (in)famous 419 advancedfee scam, targeted towards other countries, originated. However, as we know, cybercrime is a global problem af...

Crime alerts are meant to raise community awareness and identify individual criminal suspects; they are not expected to affect attitudes and beliefs toward the social group to which an individual suspect belongs. However, psychological principles of learning, categorization, and memory predict that what is learned about an instance can color perception of an entire category. At the intersection...

We analyze criminal careers through crime nature, frequency, duration and severity. We propose a tool that yields a visual clustering of these criminal careers, enabling the identification of classes of criminals.

Is it possible to identify crime suspects by their mobile phone call records? Can the spatial-temporal movements of individuals linked convicted criminals help those who facilitate crime? Might we leverage usage phones, such as incoming and outgoing numbers, coordinates, duration frequency calls, in a specific time window on either side provide focus for location period under investigation? dat...