Getting the perpetrator incorporated and prioritized in homicide investigations: The development and evaluation of a case-specific element library (c-sel)

Homicide investigators in the digital era have access to an increasing amount of data and the processing of all persons of interest and pieces of evidence has become nearly impossible. This paper describes the development and evaluation of a case-specific element library (C-SEL) that can be used to incorporate and prioritize persons of...

Predicting the offender: Frequency versus bayes

In this paper two Bayesian approaches and a frequency approach are compared on predicting offender output variables based on the input of crime scene and victim variables. The K2 algorithm, Naïve Bayes and frequency approach were trained to make the correct prediction using a database of 233 solved Dutch single offender/single victim homicide...