Methods used to link crimes using behaviour: A literature review

A Burrell, B Costello, J Woodhams - Aggression and Violent Behavior, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the crime linkage literature to identify how data were pre-processed for
analysis, methods used to predict linkage status/series membership, and methods used to …

CrimeTelescope: crime hotspot prediction based on urban and social media data fusion

D Yang, T Heaney, A Tonon, L Wang… - World Wide Web, 2018 - Springer
Crime is a complex social issue impacting a considerable number of individuals within a
society. Preventing and reducing crime is a top priority in many countries. Given limited …

A novel random forest approach for imbalance problem in crime linkage

YS Li, H Chi, XY Shao, ML Qi, BG Xu - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2020 - Elsevier
Crime linkage is a challenging task in crime analysis, which is to find serial crimes
committed by the same offenders. It can be regarded as a binary classification task detecting …

Applied intelligent data analysis to government data related to criminal incident: A systematic review

K Henrique de Jesus Prado… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Context Crime is a prevalent social problem, then, government and society, in general, have
had enormous problems caused by this phenomenon. However, with the increasing ability …

[HTML][HTML] Forensic intelligence: Data analytics as the bridge between forensic science and investigation

Y Delgado, BS Price, PJ Speaker, SL Stoiloff - Forensic Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Scientists should not play a role in investigations nor should investigators play a role in the
scientific analyses. One way to bridge the relationship between the forensic scientist and the …

Thresholds learning of three-way decisions in pairwise crime linkage

Y Li, X Shao - Applied Soft Computing, 2022 - Elsevier
Crime linkage is a difficult task and is of great significance to maintaining social security. It
can be treated as a binary classification problem. Some crimes are difficult to determine …

The detection of criminal groups in real-world fused data: using the graph-mining algorithm “GraphExtract”

D Robinson, C Scogings - Security Informatics, 2018 - Springer
Law enforcement and intelligence agencies generally have access to a number of rich data
sources, both structured and unstructured, and with the advent of high performing entity …

Linking foraging domestic burglary: An analysis of crimes committed within police-identified optimal forager patches

E Halford - Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 2023 - Springer
Crime linkage is a systematic way of assessing behavioural or physical characteristics of
crimes and considering the likelihood they are linked to the same offender. This study builds …

An approach for understanding offender modus operandi to detect serial robbery crimes

YS Li, ML Qi - Journal of Computational Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Detecting serial crimes is one of the most challenging tasks in crime analysis. Linking crimes
committed by the same criminal can improve the work efficiency of police offices and …

A decision support system for detecting serial crimes

H Chi, Z Lin, H Jin, B Xu, M Qi - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2017 - Elsevier
Serial crimes pose a great threat to public security. Linking crimes committed by the same
offender can assist the detecting of serial crimes and is of great importance in maintaining …