Adopting data interpretation on mining fine-grained near-repeat patterns in crimes. (April 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wang, Ke; Cai, Zhiping; Zhu, Peidong; Cui, Pengshuai; Zhu, Haoyang; Li, Yangyang
• Is Part Of: Journal of forensic and legal medicine. Volume 55(2018)
• Page Start: 76
• Page End: 86
• Publication Date: 2018-04
• Subjects: Crime analysis -- Near-repeat effect -- Data interpretation -- Crime patterns mining -- Knotted-clues method; Medical jurisprudence -- Periodicals; Forensic sciences -- Periodicals; Forensic Medicine -- Periodicals; Médecine légale -- Périodiques; Electronic journals; 614.1
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jflm.2018.02.015
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1752-928X

Abstract

Abstract: The near-repeat effect is a well-known phenomenon in crime analysis. The classic research methods focus on two aspects. One is the geographical factor, which indicates the influence of a certain crime risk on other similar crime incidents in nearby places. The other is the social network, which demonstrates the contacts of the offenders and explain "near" as degrees instead of geographic distances. In our work, these coarse-grained patterns discovering methods are summarized as bundled-clues techniques. In this paper, we propose a knotted-clues method. Adopting a data science perspective, we make use of a data interpretative technology and discover that the near-repeat effect is not always so near in geographic or network structure. With this approach, we analyze the near-repeat patterns in all districts of the dataset, as well as in different crime types. Using open source data from Crimes in Chicago provided by Chicago Police Department, we find interesting relationships and patterns with our mining method, which have a positive effect on police deployment and decision making. Highlights: A knotted-clues method is proposed for fine-grained crime data analysis. A data interpretation technology is designed for explaining the particular order in the knotted-clues method. Accurate results of district number are discovered in fine-grained near-repeat patterns. Near-repeat effect between crime types is revealed from the extracted association rules.