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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"crime investigations"”.
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Spatial signatures and mental maps: Using offenders’ activity locations to enhance geographic profiling for crime investigations
In crime investigations, geographic profiling involves inferring information about ‘whodunit’ from information about where and when the crime occurred. Such inferences are possible because people usually commit crime in places they know, rather than seeking opportunities elsewhere. The ‘spatial …
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"Digital Forensics is the newest, most troublesome forensic discipline": The Use of Digital Forensics in the Investigation and Prosecution of Major Crime in England and Wales
… (Lawless, 2016, Horsman, 2024). Over 90% of all crime now has a digital element (Police Digital Service, 2020) and the volume of digital evidence (DE) now threatens to overwhelm the police, prosecutors, and the courts (Police Foundation, 2021, His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire …
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A Study of Human Body Movement in Inland Waterways
… of successful search operations and associated investigations. This could provide earlier resolution in missing person cases, reduce the risk to search operatives, and ensure timely evidence gathering. The information may also facilitate preventative measures to reduce the number of drowning …
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Dark networks: a South African cash-in-transit crime case study
… within the criminological domain of organised crime, exploring the structure of cash-in-transit criminal networks in South Africa. Whilst the current literature on cash-in-transit robberies is sparse, academic research on the criminal networks involved in these crimes is non-existent, partly …
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Rätt, makt och institutionell förändring : En kritisk analys av myndigheters samverkan i barnahus
… Sweden (collaboration under one roof regarding investigations of suspected crimes against children), has been undertaken in two stages: an initial empirical analysis and a second theoretically grounded re-analysis. Different theoretical perspectives, research methods as well as various empirical …