Fifty years ago, the 1967 President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of
Justice urged the rapid adoption of information technology to improve the effectiveness …

Purpose Detective work is a mainstay of modern law enforcement, but its effectiveness has
been much less evaluated than patrol work. To explore what is known about effective …

Evidence-based policing is a method of making decisions about “what works” in policing:
which practices and strategies accomplish police missions most cost-effectively. In contrast …

Objectives This paper offers novel experimental evidence that violent crimes can be
successfully reduced by changing the situational environment that potential victims and …

" This paper urges the police to take ownership and make use of science in the policing task.
The authors commend the police industry for embracing innovative management strategies …

We build upon previous reviews of the police effectiveness literature to categorize strategies
and tactics based on what police should and should not be doing. We also provide relevant …

Since the emergence of forensic DNA profiling and the corollary creation of DNA databases,
efforts to maximise the efficiency and utility of DNA technology have intensified. Such efforts …

In many US cities, gun violence is the most urgent crime problem. High rates of deadly
violence make a city less livable, dragging down quality of life, economic development, and …

Objectives Estimate the frequency of self-reported factual innocence in non-capital cases
within a state population of prisoners. Methods We conducted a survey of a population …

Motivated by the debate over how to deal with the huge backlog of untested sexual assault
kits in the USA, we construct and analyze a mathematical model that predicts the expected …