Table of contents - Special Issue: Behavioural Crime Linkage - putting research into practice
Guest Editors: Matt Tonkin, Amy Burrell
Case linkage in Australian serial stranger rape
Serena Davidson, Wayne PetherickCase linkage theory and practice have received growing empirical support; however, they have yet to be examined fully within Australia. For sexual assault case linkage to be…
Linking serial homicide – towards an ecologically valid application
Tom Pakkanen, Jukka Sirén, Angelo Zappalà, Patrick Jern, Dario Bosco, Andrea Berti, Pekka SanttilaCrime linkage analysis (CLA) can be applied in the police investigation-phase to sift through a database to find behaviorally similar cases to the one under investigation and in…
Closer to reality? The application of sequence analysis in crime linkage
Jan-Martin Winter, Gina RossiTraditional crime linkage studies on serial sexual assaults have relied predominantly on a binary crime linkage approach that has yielded successful results in terms of linkage…
Linkage analysis using geographical proximity: a test of the efficacy of distance measures
Shumpei Haginoya, Aiko Hanayama, Tamae KoikeThe purpose of this paper was to compare the accuracy of linking crimes using geographical proximity between three distance measures: Euclidean (distance measured by the length of…
Crime linkage practice in New Zealand
Matt Tonkin, Martin Joseph WeeksThe purpose of this paper is to understand (i) how crime linkage is currently performed with residential burglaries in New Zealand, (ii) the factors that promote/hinder accurate…
The utility of the Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System for conducting comparative case analysis
Kari Davies, Hanne Imre, Jessica WoodhamsThe Violent Crime Linkage Analysis System (ViCLAS) is a computerised database which is used by law enforcement in several countries to find potential links between serial violent…
ISSN:
2056-3841Online date, start – end:
2015Copyright Holder:
Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Dr Michael Lewis
- Prof. Jane Ireland