Objectives: Design and estimate the impacts of a prevention program for part 1 violent crimes in micro-place crime hot spots. Methods: A longitudinal study of crime hot spots using 21 years of crime offense report data on part 1 violent crimes from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Based on kernel density smoothing for a definition of micro-place crime hot spots, we replicate past work on the existence...

This article considers the processes in the illicit online prescription drug trade, namely search-redirection attacks and the operation of unlicensed pharmacies using crime script analysis. Empirical data have been used to describe the salient elements of the online criminal infrastructures and associated monetization paths enabling criminal profitability. This analysis reveals the existence of...

Great attention has been given to the exact formulation of locality conditions in the existence of hidden variables for quantum mechanical configurations that do not satisfy Bell's inequalities. In contrast, almost no attention has been given to examining what happens if the requirements for a probability measure are relaxed. The purpose of this paper is to show that local hidden variables do...

The cyber crimes such as online banking fraud, credit card theft, child pornography, intellectual property theft, identity theft, unauthorized intrusion, money laundering, digital piracy etc. are growing rapidly with technology. Desktops, smartphones, laptops, digital cameras, GPS devices and even watches all can be used to aid a fraud. All this devices leave behind a digital footprint. Gatheri...

This thesis considers the structural characteristics of online criminal networks from a technical and an economic perspective. Through large-scale measurements, we empirically describe some salient elements of the online criminal infrastructures, and we derive economic models characterizing the associated monetization paths enabling criminal profitability. This analysis reveals the existence of...

English abstractInternet-mediated research methods are increasingly used to access hidden crime-involved populations such as drug users and dealers. Based on an online survey study of over 800 individuals engaged in illegal small-scale cannabis cultivation Denmark, this article focuses the recruitment allegedly »hidden« population. In article, we critically reflect about concepts »hidden-« »har...

The organizational structure of the police is characterized by the existence of a centralized command with the task of distributing and redistributing the police force in a region according to an analysis of crime and the factors that lead to it. On the other hand, criminals are characterized as a decentralized system in which individual agents have autonomy and act primarily based on accumulat...