Many crimes can happen every day in a major city, and figuring out which ones are committed by the same individual or group is an important and difficult data mining challenge. To do this, we propose a pattern detection algorithm called Series Finder, that grows a pattern of discovered crimes from within a database, starting from a “seed” of a few crimes. Series Finder incorporates both the com...

The rapid economic development in South Korea has resulted in increase of crimes. Timely detection and reduction of crimes are primary focus of police officers. Internet of Things (IoT) and increasingly cheap and wearable sensors can be used to facilitate this task. Generally, the application of IoT technologies to the fields of smart cities, smart logistics and healthcare can be seen more ofte...

Among other domains and topics on which some issues are frequently argued in the blogosphere, the domain of crime is one of the most seriously discussed by various kinds of bloggers. Such information on crimes in blogs is especially valuable for outsiders from abroad who are not familiar with cultures and crimes in foreign countries. This paper proposes a framework of cross-lingually analyzing ...

This paper investigates the effect of early exposure to neighborhood crime on subsequent criminal behavior of youth exploiting a unique natural experiment between 1986 and 1998 when refugee immigrants to Denmark were assigned to neighborhoods quasi-randomly. We find strong evidence that the share of young people convicted for crimes, in particular violent crimes, in the neighborhood increases c...

The complex problem of drug abuse and drug-related crimes in communities in the Western Cape province cannot be studied in isolation but through the system they are embedded in. In this paper, a theoretical model to evaluate the syndemic of substance abuse and drug-related crimes within the Western Cape province of South Africa is constructed and explored. The dynamics of drug abuse and drug-re...

This article investigates the role of education on environmental crime in Italy using a panel 110 Italian provinces over period 2010–2015. We employ system-GMM (Generalized Method Moments) dynamic data approach to tackle endogeneity that might arise estimations from path and consider time-invariant effects provinces. Our empirical results, even after controlling for socioeconomic judicial effic...

With the increase of computer network crimes and the changes of the forms, the work of the network electronic forensics is becoming more and more important, and it is required that the technology of electronic forensics should be adapted to the development of complex network crimes. In this paper, the traditional electronic evidence collection technology and the electronic evidence collection m...

Corporate criminal liability puts a serious challenge to the economic theory of enforcement. Are corporate crimes different from other crimes? Are these crimes best deterred by punishing individuals, punishing corporations, or both? What is optimal structure of sanctions? Should corporate liability be criminal or civil? This paper has two major contributions to the literature. First, it provide...

Cloud computing is increasingly becoming a target of cyber-criminal attacks. Often the committed crimes violate the Service Level Agreement (SLA) contracts, which must be respected by all the involved parties. Cloud Forensics is a branch of Digital Forensic discipline dealing with crimes involving the Cloud. A manner for leveraging some of the attacks is the provisioning of a Forensic Readiness...