Crime pattern analysis (CPA) is the process of analytical reasoning facilitated by an understanding about the nature of an underlying spatial framework that generates crime. For example, law enforcement agencies may seek to identify regions of sudden increase in crime activity, namely, crime outbreaks. Many analytical tools facilitate this reasoning process by providing support for techniques s...

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Web Monitoring is an important task for crime detection and crime investigation. This paper describes the rationale, functionality and the architecture of the MPI system, which was developed for Web information monitoring based on advanced semantic scripts based on the Conceptual Dependency model.

In several countries, the possession of files containing child and adolescent pornography is a crime. Law-enforcement officers must be able to detect this type of content at crime scenes. The NuDetective Forensic Tool was developed to assist forensic examiners in the timely identification of such files at crime scenes. NuDetective automatically detects nudity in images and employs other techniq...

This paper describes some possible uses of Formal Concept Analysis in the detection and monitoring of Organised Crime. After describing FCA and its mathematical basis, the paper suggests, with some simple examples, ways in which FCA and some of its related disciplines can be applied to this problem domain. In particular, the paper proposes FCA-based approaches for finding multiple instances of ...

Geographic profiling plays a significant role in serial crime detection nowadays, in which Rossmo’s formula is applied for future crime location prediction. However, the limited accuracy and demanding for vast data have largely impeded the efficiency of this technology. In this letter, a traffic network is introduced to geographic profiling. The problem is remodeled with weighted traffic networ...

As crime rates keep spiraling each day, new challenges are faced by law enforcement agencies. They have to their on the lookout for any signs criminal activity. The agencies should therefore be able predict such increase or decrees trends in crime. Such as theft, Killing. Crime that may occur a particular area month, year, timespan. Data mining is defined process of discovering hidden valuable ...