Title: Crime data mining as a decision making tool

Authors: Hidayet Tasdoven, Bahadir Sahin

Addresses: College of Health and Public Affairs, University of Central Florida, 3280 Progress Drive, Florida 32826-0544, USA. ' Kucukcekmece Police Department, The Turkish National Police, Istanbul, Turkey

Abstract: The first part of this paper provides an overview of need for efficient decision-making tools in different public and private sectors. Data mining has been offered as a decision support tool particularly for criminal justice system. Advantages and disadvantages of various data mining tools were discussed in terms of informatics research background. Agent, host and environment relationships of data mining tools were applied in criminal justice system.

Keywords: data mining; advanced criminal justice techniques; informatics research; decision support systems; DSS; organised crime; criminal activities; financial crime.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPP.2010.035130

International Journal of Public Policy, 2010 Vol.6 No.3/4, pp.278 - 287

Published online: 05 Sep 2010 *

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