Evidential structures and metrics for network forensics

Crime science: editorial statement

“…In addition to the need for better and more effective bomb detectors and the associated paraphernalia of counter terrorism we are also interested the more mundane offences that are so troubling to communities -vandalism, graffiti, car crime, burglary. We are interested in economic crime and fraud; in how to reduce the opportunities to offend provided by new technologies such as the Internet; in how to capitalise on what we know already from other disciplines such as psychology, design (Hilton & Henderson, 2008), economics (Taniguchi et al 2009), forensic science (Sapse & Kobilinsky, 2011), geography, computer science (Amran et al 2010), complexity science and the broad field of engineering. Wortley's recent book (Wortley 2011) which reviews the field of psychology from a crime control perspective provides an excellent example of what we have in mind.…”