Crime prediction plays an impactful role in enhancing public security and sustainable development of urban. With recent advances data collection integration technologies, a large amount urban with rich crime-related information fine-grained spatio-temporal logs have been recorded. Such helpful can boost our understandings the temporal evolution spatial factors crimes enhance accurate crime pred...

Context. According to Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention, there is an increase of 19% in residential burglary crimes in Sweden over the last decade and only 5% of the total crimes reported were actually solved by the law enforcement agencies. In order to solve these cases quickly and efficiently, the law enforcement agencies has to look into the possible linked serial crimes. Many st...

Most crimes in America require that the defendant have mens rea, Latin for "guilty mind." However, mens rea is not legally required for strict liability crimes, such as speeding, for which someone is guilty even if ignorant or deceived about her speed. In 3 experiments involving participants responding to descriptive vignettes, we investigated whether the division of strict liability crimes in ...

OBJECTIVE Our objective was to study the outcomes experienced by 2 communities after implementing pretrial diversion of offenders with mental illness. METHOD The same method of diversion was implemented in a predominately urban and a predominantly rural county. We collected retrospective clinical and offence data from pretrial diversion assessments conducted in court. As well, we measured out...

Similar to other Asian countries, it is forecasted that the urban population in Sri Lanka will continue increase at an accelerating rate and majority be living areas by 2022. Urban crime which a major challenge cities face assumed spread with increasing population. They are clustered geographically generating substantial economic struggle. The related theories argue criminal opportunity root ca...

Police patrols are used ubiquitously to deter crimes in urban areas. A distinctive feature of urban crimes is that criminals react opportunistically to patrol officers’ assignments. Compared to strategic attackers (such as terrorists) with a well-laid out plan, opportunistic criminals are less strategic in planning attacks and more flexible in executing them. In this paper, our goal is to recom...

When a crime is committed by an individual of one race against an individual of another race, there is the possibility that the crime is a hate crime. Legislation often mandates harsher penalties for perpetrators convicted of crimes determined to be hate crimes, yet this determination is difficult to make. This study used vignettes of violent crimes to examine how the races of the perpetrators ...