Journal of Criminological Research, Policy and Practice: Volume 7 Issue 1

Guest editorial

Matt Tonkin, Amy Burrell

Case linkage in Australian serial stranger rape

Serena Davidson, Wayne Petherick

Case 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 Santtila

Crime 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 Rossi

Traditional 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 Koike

The 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 Weeks

The 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 Woodhams

The 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…