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 …

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 …

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 attrition of rape cases within the criminal justice system is driven by different factors. We
aimed to describe the patterns of rape case attrition and associated factors in South Africa …

Crime linkage is the process of analyzing criminal behavior data to determine whether a pair
or group of crime cases are connected or belong to a series of offenses. This domain has …

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 …

Purpose The purpose of this article is to improve the use of evidence-based practice and
research utilization in the offender profiling process. The use of offender profiling has been …

Deciding whether two crimes have been committed by the same offender or different
offenders is an important investigative task. Crime linkage researchers commonly use …

In many countries, data collection on sexual violence incidents is not integrated into the
healthcare system, which makes it difficult to establish the nature of sexual offences in this …

The current study investigated characteristics of robbery offences with a focus on lone
versus multiple perpetrator crimes. The main aim was to outline differences between lone …