In the 4 decades since offender profiling (OP) was established, hundreds of journal articles,
books, book chapters, reports, and magazine articles have been published on the topic, and …

The number of published studies examining crime linkage analysis has grown rapidly over
the last decade, to the point where a special issue of this journal has recently been …

Properties, victims, and locations previously targeted by offenders have an increased risk of
being targeted again within a short time period. It has been suggested that often the same …

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 …

The object of this article is to develop a statistical approach to criminal linkage analysis that
discovers and groups crime events that share a common offender and prioritizes suspects …

Crime linkage has been the subject of increasing attention in academic research. Research
has found support for the principles of behavioural consistency and distinctiveness, which …

Crime linkage analysis constitutes a tool to help investigators prioritize suspects, but a
scarcity of research and methodological issues limits our knowledge on behavioral …

Purpose This study compared the utility of different statistical methods in differentiating
sexual crimes committed by the same person from sexual crimes committed by different …

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 …

This study evaluates the behavioral consistency in offending styles among a sample of serial
burglars from the United States. Three popular specialization analyses—Jaccard's …