Crime and Technology

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1. Is the Mafia responsible for technological backwardness in Sicily? An analysis from unification of the Italian Kingdom in 1861 to 1913

   • Fabio Paolo Di Vita
   • Giuseppe Di Vita
   • Livio Ferrante

   in European Journal of Law and Economics

   Article 06 May 2026

   

2. Technology and Policing

   • James F. Albrecht
   • Garth den Heyer

   Book 2026

   

3. A Criminology of Machines

   • Gian Maria Campedelli

   in Theory and Society

   Article Open access 20 April 2026

   

4. Impact of Abandon and Forensic State on the Stability of Internet of Things Against Malware Attacks

   • Om Prakash
   • Avadhesh Kumar
   • Rudra Pratap Ojha

   in SN Computer Science

   Article 18 April 2026

   

5. Streaming Justice

   • Greg Stratton

   in Crime and Justice in Digital Society

   Book 2026

   

6. The dark side of metaverse: a study of the determinants of abusive behaviour in metaverse using PLS-SEM and fuzzy set qualitative analysis

   • Alhamzah Alnoor
   • Mohammed Salah Alazzawi
   • Saleh Al Sinawi

   in Neural Computing and Applications

   Article 11 April 2026

   

7. Graph diffusion arithmetic feature interaction transformer with temporal information for bitcoin anti-money laundering

   • Meng Li
   • Lu Jia
   • Xinqiao Su

   in Applied Intelligence

   Article 09 April 2026

   

8. Contextual determinants of police attitudes toward AI-assisted policing: a vignette experiment

   • Yi-Syuan Ethan Jian
   • Ivan Y. Sun
   • Yunan Chen

   in Journal of Experimental Criminology

   Article 06 April 2026

9. An overview of anti-drone systems: Technologies, challenges, and future directions

   • Rityuj Singh Parihar

   in Journal of Transportation Security

   Article 31 March 2026

   

10. An embedded deep learning framework for real-time violence detection and alert generation

    • Muhammad Salman
    • Naveed Abbas
    • Abdul Khader Jilani Saudagar

    in Scientific Reports

    Article Open access 28 March 2026

    

11. Reinforcing smart grid resilience through blockchain-supported deep learning models for theft detection

    • Fadia Bibi
    • Saif Ur Rehman
    • Vincent Karovič

    in Scientific Reports

    Article Open access 17 March 2026

    

12. Review of Gates, K. 2025. Targeted: corporations and the police surveillance economy. New York: NYU Press. pp. 196. ISBN 9781479829217

    • Kevin Walby

    in Security Journal

    Article 16 March 2026

13. Crime opportunities in decentralized finance: how actor attributes shape target attractiveness

    • Catherine Carpentier-Desjardins
    • Masarah Paquet-Clouston

    in Crime Science

    Article Open access 11 March 2026

    

14. A lightweight framework for efficient violence detection via kernel-based attention and knowledge distillation

    • Zirui Wang
    • Kerui Weng
    • You-xi Li

    in Multimedia Systems

    Article 10 March 2026

    

15. Conditions of benefits and risks when algorithmic technology is implemented for public sector policing and fraud detection: a systematic literature review

    • Spencer Poodiack Parsons
    • René Torenvlied

    in AI & SOCIETY

    Article Open access 10 March 2026

    

16. Predictive analysis of telecommunication network fraud crimes based on big language modeling

    • Danyang Li
    • Lin Zhan

    in Journal of Engineering and Applied Science

    Article Open access 10 March 2026

    

17. How a mathematician is cracking open Mexico’s powerful drug cartels

    • Gemma Conroy

    in Nature

    Article 04 March 2026

    

18. A review of cybersecurity in smart cities and intelligent transport systems

    • Sujata Joshi
    • Akshay Baviskar
    • Sarvesh Rajmane

    in Discover Internet of Things

    Article Open access 25 February 2026

    

19. Bringing Technology to Justice-Involved Youth

    • Esther C. A. Mertens
    • J. J. Asscher
    • J.-L. van Gelder

    in Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology

    Article Open access 21 February 2026

20. A globally optimal algorithm for hotspot detection and ranking

    • Martin Boldt

    in Crime Science

    Article Open access 21 February 2026

    

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