‘Crime fighters behind their computers:’ 2 women use science, data to solve cases Kim Murga, left, is the director of laboratory services for the Metropolitan Police Department.

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.

The temporal analysis feature is quite clever, says Pål Roe Sundsøy, a complex systems research and data scientist at the Norway-based communications company Telenor.

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 ...

CT’s new crime data chief was introduced with a promise of faster analysis, greater transparency — and a report showing crime fell by 14.1%.

The unemployment/crime rate relationship (U-C) has been described recently as "inconsistent," "insignificant," and "weak." Prior assessments of the U-C relationship have used no more than 18 U-C ...

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 ...