SOCIS research scenario is that of scene of crime investigation where, typically, many hundreds of items must be photographed and gathered at each site. Currently these items are described in handwriting by a Scene of Crime officer (SOCO) whose words are later entered into a computer data base. The inefficiency of this procedure is obvious: it fails to link the spoken and the written descriptio...

In developing countries, the lack of infrastructure like GPS (Global positioning system) and GIS (Geographic Information system) have hindered the growth of the police department. This paper proposes a simple, useful and cost effective solution for crime mapping. Google cloud resources like satellite data, application and GIS software have been used to develop this application. The developer re...

Crime statistics from the US Bureau of Justice and the FBI Uniform Crime Report show a gap between reported and unreported crime. For police to effectively prevent and solve crime, they require accurate and complete information about incidents. This article describes the evaluation of a crime reporting and interviewing system that witnesses can use to report crime incidents or suspicious activi...

Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) is a carefully planned systematic process with the purpose of acquiring physical evidences to shed light upon the physical reality of the crime and eventually detect the identity of the criminal. Capturing images and videos of the crime scene is an important part of this process in order to conduct a deeper analysis on the digital evidence for possible hints. Thi...

Mathematical models are useful weapons in the crime-fighting arsenal. With the development of cheaper and more powerful computers, mathematical modelling of systems representing some aspect of crime or criminal behaviour and the analysis of the resulting numerical solutions is becomingmore popular. Models may be and numerical simulation via the computer must be used to determine their approxima...

Issues concerning computer security have received considerable academic attention in recent years and cyber security has become a top priority for many governments, organizations, and industries. Unfortunately, the attention devoted to cyber crime issues has focused primarily on the technical dimension of computer crime. Today, our knowledge about the persons behind the keyboards remains fragme...

The purpose of this paper is to identify the information needs of the small business and then to examine the various computer software acquisition options available that may be used to obtain the software necessary to help satisfy these information needs. The relationships between the acquisition options and their relative acquisition costs and associated risk levels of computer assisted crime ...

The purpose of this study was to utilize thermal imaging and the Concealed Information Test to detect deception in participants who committed a mock crime. A functional analysis using a functional ANOVA and a functional discriminant analysis was conducted to decrease the variation in the physiological data collected through the thermal imaging camera. Participants chose between a non-crime miss...

New technologies will allow Crime Scene Investigators (CSIs) in the near future to analyse traces at the crime scene and receive identification information while still conducting the investigation. These developments could have considerable effects on the way an investigation is conducted. CSIs may start reasoning based on possible database-matches which could influence scenario formation (i.e....