Walters provides a detailed description of how criminal thinking serves as a vital link
between criminality and crime. Criminality, the propensity to become involved in criminal …

While criminology and policing studies focus primarily on offenders and their behaviours,
there has been an increasing focus on victims and victimology. In this paper, we argue that …

The networked nature of criminals using the dark web is poorly understood and infrequently
studied, mostly due to a lack of data. Rarer still are studies on the topological effectiveness …

Geographic forecasting of crime can be done by considering prior crime or by considering
spatial risk factors, eg, using risk terrain modeling (RTM). The present paper tests both …

Investigating reports of missing children is a major source of demand for the police in the
UK. Repeat disappearances are common, can indicate underlying vulnerabilities and have …

For nearly forty years, policymakers within law enforcement, commercially motivated interest
groups, and scholars have made the case for an augmented implementation of technology …

Place-based policing has attracted a substantial amount of attention, not least in relation to
hot spot policing. Such policing efforts depend on geographical analysis of where crime …

Background Criminal justice policy decisions are increasingly being influenced by the ratio
of the monetary benefits to the monetary costs. While policies based on evidence and …

Abstract The Western Australian Police piloted an 8-month small-scale targeted burglary
prevention initiative involving distribution of crime prevention pamphlets to burglary victims …

The space-time risk window associated with near-repeat burglary patterns would seem to
present a natural opportunity for burglary prevention efforts. However, constraints associated …