Crime reduction and prevention challenges in today’s world are becoming increasingly complex and are in need of a new technique that can handle the vast amount of information that is being generated. Traditional police capabilities mostly fall short in depicting the original division of criminal activities, thus contribute less in the suitable allocation of police services. In this paper method...

This paper addresses three main areas and develops a conceptual framework for identity fraud profiling. First, we identify the main contemporary profiling methods that are crime and/or business based. Second, accepting the current information systems (IS) facilitated attack channels and methods used by identity crime perpetrators (Jamieson & Stephens & Winchester 2007), we investigate how to be...

Complex networks are nowadays employed in several applications. Modeling urban street networks is one of them, and in particular to analyze criminal aspects of a city. Several research groups have focused on such application, but until now, there is a lack of a well-defined methodology for employing complex networks in a whole crime analysis process, i.e. from data preparation to a deep analysi...

traditional leveraging statistical methods for analyzing today’s large volumes of spatial data have high computational burdens. to eliminate the deficiency, relatively modern data mining techniques have been recently applied in different spatial analysis tasks with the purpose of autonomous knowledge extraction from high-volume spatial data. fortunately, geospatial data is considered a proper s...

Crime analysis describes the systematic collection, preparation, interpretation, and dissemination of information about criminal activity to support the mission of law enforcement (Boba 2005). Leading theories on the sociology of crime emphasize the importance of geography (Shaw and McKay 1942; Cohen and Felson 1979; Sampson and Groves 1989), as the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics...

Crime maps are becoming significant tools in crime and justice. Advances in the areas of information technology, computing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have opened new opportunities for the use of (computerized) mapping in crime control and prevention programs. Crime maps are also valuable for the study of the ecology and the locational aspects of crime. Maps enable areas of unusual...

This chapter discusses the uses of a geographic information system (GIs) for tactical crime analysis. A tactical crime analysis GIs is built on the assumption that police managers and line officers need access to timely and accurate information for problem solving, community policing, crime prevention, and enforcement activities. The goal of using a GIs system is to address some of the shortcom...

This study focuses on bus stop crime and seeks to identify the environmental attributes that can affect the bus rider's security while at the bus stop. Using crime data for the years 1994 and 1995 made available by the transit division of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the study discusses some general characteristics of bus stop crime. Following the argument of criminolo...

The study reported here follows the suggestion by Caplan et al. (Justice Q, 2010) that risk terrain modeling (RTM) be developed by doing more work to elaborate, operationalize, and test variables that would provide added value to its application in police operations. Building on the ideas presented by Caplan et al., we address three important issues related to RTM that sets it apart from curren...