How Analysts Use AI in High-Stakes Crime Linkage: An Industrial Study
Crime linkage analysis is used in many countries to identify series of offences that may have been committed by the same individual. In practice, specialist analysts manually search for behavioural and situational connections across large crime databases, an effort that is time-consuming, cognitively demanding, and can involve repeated exposure to disturbing material. To support this work, an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled decision-support tool was co-developed with a UK law enforcement ag
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Published: 9 July 2026
Source: arXiv cs.HC
Category: Research
Topics: Regulation
Retrieved: 14 July 2026
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