When it comes to crime prevention, figuring out what works can take a lot of detective work. Today, some of that detective work is being made easier thanks to a new emphasis on data analysis in ...

Can Latin America see greater success in reducing urban crime and violence by emphasizing data collection and analysis? InSight Crime takes a look at three such initiatives in the region.

A unique approach to crime analysis may allow police officers to predict illegal activity.

Big data is everywhere these days and police departments are no exception. As law enforcement agencies are tasked with doing more with less, many are using predictive policing tools. These tools ...

They have created a ‘war room’, where they are working on social-network analysis and computational social science in an effort to predict where crime may happen.

The products of crime analysis are better understood as an artefact of the data and methods used in their construction, rather than providing an accurate representation of any crime problems. The ...

The software being used by Delhi police accesses real-time data from 100 helpline and, using ISRO’s satellite imageries, spatially locates the calls and visualises them as cluster maps to ...

Further, recent reported events leave me to wonder about the state of crime analysis. I am not a crime fighter myself but I am aware of the applications of data science in crime fighting. Any kind ...

Researchers have found that forensic "DNA mixture analysis" is less accurate for certain groups of people with lower genetic diversity, which could falsely link them to crime scenes.