DNA fingerprinting, one of the great discoveries of the late 20 th century, has revolutionized forensic investigations. The DNA molecule became the most powerful single tool in the multifaceted fight against crime. DNA analysis led to the exoneration of suspects and identification of victims of crimes, accidents and disasters. The review gives an outline of different and recent technologies in ...

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...

which consists of an increasing sequence of m decreasing sequences, each of length n/m. The longest increasing subsequence has length m but but the only way for the sample to imply that the input is not sorted is if two chosen elements land in the same decreasing sequence. The probability that this happens is at most ( s 2 ) /m ≤ s/(2m) which is o(1) if s is o( √ m). In particular, for ε = 1/2 ...

Understanding relations between offenders in organized crimes is important for law enforcement and intelligence agencies to detect, prevent, and respond to crimes and terrorism events. However, several challenges (e.g., information overload, difficulty of relation search and extraction of relation patterns) face the task of criminal relation exploration. In this paper we present our ongoing res...

The past decade in the United States has been characterized by a widening in the distribution of wage income. While much research has attempted to uncover the causes of these earnings trends, much less is known about their impact upon social and economic factors. This study examines evidence for links between changes in distribution of wage income and criminal activity. Using extreme bounds ana...

There is a broad consensus that the Internet has greatly expanded possibilities for traditional transit crimes such as wildlife trafficking. However, the extent to which the Internet is exploited by criminals to carry out these types of activities and the way in which it has changed how these crimes are carried out remains under-investigated. Based on interviews and investigative cases, this pa...

In this paper, I construct a simple model that illustrates conditions under which increased criminal sanctions can lead to increased levels of crime. This finding is derived from the interaction of binding budgetary constraints and plea bargaining, given that the costs of trial are assumed to be increasing in the size of sanction. In an environment with these institutional features, maximal san...

This article presents rates of criminal offending in the life history of male and female students at universities in 32 nations who participated in the International Dating Violence Study. The measure of criminal behavior has acceptable coefficients of reliability in most of the national settings, and there is evidence indicating construct validity. National differences in the percent of male s...

transnational organized crime is one of the most problematic matters for international community in 21st century. these crimes are committed by organized criminal groups consisting of three or more persons, a unique leadership and strict discipline with cruel sanctions in order to obtain, directly or indirectly, a financial or other material benefit. commission of the crimes nationally and inte...

information technology development has deeply affected all aspects of social, economic, cultural, life including criminal law. this development has forced lawyers and policy makers of these areas to reflect deeply. differences between traditional and cyber crimes are such that long standing conventional criminal policy can no longer tackle them. transnationality, easiness of occurrence, anonymi...