Intelligence-driven policing strategies are coming to the fore in many countries around the world. This is evidenced by the espousal of the term in the mission statements of police services in Australia and New Zealand, the recent adoption of the National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan by the US government, and most notably by the legal commitment to the National Intelligence Model in the U...

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...

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Introduction The crime rate in Spain has increased substantially in the last 20 years. In 2008, according to the National Institute of Statistics, the crime rate increased by 17.1% from the previous year (Instituto Nacional de Estadistica [INE], 2008). Simultaneously Spain has changed from a country of heavy emigration to an attractive country for economic migrants. Since 2000, there has been a...

Modern day crime scene investigation methods are continually being enhanced by the application of new technologies used to better analyze crime scene data and improve the presentation of such data in the courtroom, helping to solve and prosecute crimes. This paper describes a new system called IC-CRIME that integrates several new technologies to meet both of these needs. IC-CRIME employs laser ...

Objectives The classification of crime into discrete categories entails a massive loss of information. Crimes emerge out of a complex mix of behaviors and situations, yet most of these details cannot be captured by singular crime type labels. This information loss impacts our ability to not only understand the causes of crime, but also how to develop optimal crime prevention strategies. Methods...

This report presents a comprehensive set of recommendations for protection of human beings who are trafficked for the purpose of organ removal or are targeted for such trafficking. Developed by an interdisciplinary group of international experts under the auspices of the project Trafficking in Human Beings for the Purpose of Organ Removal (also known as the HOTT project), these recommendations ...

Myriad challenges beset wholesales banks today – heavy regulations, evolving customer needs, decreasing profit margins, increasing transaction volumes, massive competition from both traditional banks and the newer non-banking finance companies, increased high-tech financial crimes, and rapid technology changes, to name just a few. Managing these challenges requires timely and deeper insights on...