The victim ages ranged from 10 to 43 years. On each occasion the victim was attacked at night in her own home. The offender was often disguised and also often armed himself with a knife, which he obtained from within the dwelling house and which he used to threaten the victim. The sexual attacks often involved severe physical as well as sexual violence. The offender was not deterred by the pres...

A detection scheme is presented for maneuvering affordance in noisy imagery. By introducing a mental maneuvering process within an intentional coordinate system, image features are assumed to be represented in terms of directional Fourier images. The detectability of affordance patterns has been verified through experimental studies.

ERIN A. MARSH Victim Offender Overlap in Intimate Partner Violence (Under the direction of DR. LISA MUFTIC) Victim offender overlap is a relatively new area of research with most studies having focused on applying this concept to the study of assault and homicide. Research in intimate partner violence has found that there exists a group of victim offenders or individuals who are involved in ini...

Research on offender mobility is directed to three main elements: distance, anchor points, and direction. Previous research in geographic criminology revealed that: (1) the journey to crime is limited in distance and follows a distance decay pattern; (2) the home of the offender plays a central role as the starting point of crime trips; and (3) the direction of their trip influenced by the oppo...

The ML-PMHT MultistaticTracker for SharplyManeuvering Targets Report Title The maximum likelihood probabilistic multi-hypothesis tracker (ML-PMHT) is applied to a benchmark multistatic active sonar scenario with multiple targets, multiple sources, and multiple receivers. We first compare the performance of the tracker on this scenario when it is applied in Cartesian measurement space, a typical...

A previous review of research on the practice of offender supervision identified the predominant use of interview-based methodologies and limited use of other research approaches (Robinson and Svensson, 2013). It also found that most research has tended to be locally focussed (i.e. limited to one jurisdiction) with very few comparative studies. This article reports on the application of a visua...