Science Informed Policing

The current policing landscape has seen the rise in serious and organized crime across the globe. Criminals are innovating in real-time leveraging cyber, social media, enhanced surveillance to support their activities. In so doing, the criminal landscape has become transnational whereby collaborative networks have flourished thereby creating greater complexity and novel threats for the international policing community. As new threats to local, regional, national and global security are emerging, leveraging science and technology innovations has become more important. Advances in big data analytics, cyber forensics, surveillance, modeling and simulation has led to a more data driven, hypothesis generated and model informed approach. Novel science and technology innovations are presented in this edited book to provide insights and pathways that challenges the emerging and complex criminal threat landscape by supporting policing operations. Front Matter ....Pages i-xii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 How Offender Decision-making Can Inform Policing: A Focus on the Perceived Certainty of Apprehension (Chae M. Jaynes, Thomas A. Loughran)....Pages 3-18 An Epidemiological Framework for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorist Networks (Jennifer C. Finnegan, Anthony J. Masys)....Pages 19-37 Sex Offenders’ Forensic Awareness Strategies to Avoid Police Detection (Julien Chopin, Eric Beauregard)....Pages 39-55 Tracking Terrorism: The Role of Technology in Risk Assessment and Monitoring of Terrorist Offenders (Neil Shortland, James J. F. Forest)....Pages 57-76 Human Trafficking and the Darknet: Technology, Innovation, and Evolving Criminal Justice Strategies (Joan Reid, Bryanna Fox)....Pages 77-96 Front Matter ....Pages 97-97 Scientific and Technological Advances in Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysis (Randy Borum)....Pages 99-121 Improving Criminal Investigations with Structured Analytic Techniques (Max M. Houck)....Pages 123-159 Front-End Forensics: An Integrated Forensic Intelligence Model (Max M. Houck)....Pages 161-180 Missing Persons and Runaway Youth: The Role of Social Media as an Alert System and Crime Control Tool (Michelle N. Jeanis)....Pages 181-193 Police Engagement in Multidisciplinary Team Approaches to Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (Amy Farrell, Candence Wills, Carlande Nicolas)....Pages 195-214 From the Front Line: The Lived-Reality of Police Helicopter Operations (Simon Bennett)....Pages 215-235 Science Informed Major Event Security Planning: From Vulnerability Analysis to Security Design (Anthony J. Masys)....Pages 237-255 Back Matter ....Pages 257-259