Given a set of crime locations, a statistically significant crime hotspot is an area where the concentration of crimes inside is significantly higher than outside. The motivation of crime hotspot detection is twofold: detecting crime hotspots to focus the deployment of police enforcement and predicting the potential residence of a serial criminal. Crime hotspot detection is computationally chal...

Crime detection is one of the major issues in the field of criminology. In fact, criminology includes knowing the details of a crime and its intangible relations with the offender. In spite of the enormous amount of data on offenses and offenders, and the complex and intangible semantic relationships between this information, criminology has become one of the most important areas in the field o...

This paper focuses on some of the methods and techniques used by law enforcement authorities to identify suspects, crimes, the manner in which they were committed and the evidence necessary for proving the criminal activity. The study mentiones the sensitive character of these means and methods by considering that they may often violate fundamental human rights and freedoms.

Our goal is to automatically detect patterns of crime. Among a large set of crimes that happen every year in a major city, it is challenging, time-consuming, and labor-intensive for crime analysts to determine which ones may have been committed by the same individual(s). If automated, data-driven tools for crime pattern detection are made available to assist analysts, these tools could help pol...

Detecting crime patterns as they emerge in both space and time can enhance situational awareness amongst security agents and prevent epidemics of crimes in potential problematic areas (Neill and Gorr, 2007). Amongst others, space-time scan statistics (STSS) (Kulldorff et al. 2005) and space -time kernel (Nakaya and Yano, 2010) have been widely used in crime analysis. Stemmed on strong statistic...

A major challenge facing all law-enforcement and intelligence gathering organizations is accurately and efficiently analyzing the growing volumes of crime data. There has been an enormous increase in the crime in the recent past. The concern about national security has increased significantly since the 26/11 attacks. Crimes are a social nuisance and cost our society dearly in several ways. Here...

The growth of intelligence-led policing has placed even greater emphasis on the clear identification of crime hotspots as well as the choice of the crime reduction or detection strategy identified to combat a problem. Crime hotspots are becoming central to policing strategy in many locations, as they enable an operational commander to focus resources into the areas of highest need. This paper o...