arxivcs.HCcs.SE2026-07-09
How Analysts Use AI in High-Stakes Crime Linkage: An Industrial Study
Jessica Woodhams, Amy Burrell, Wanyin Li, Fahim Ahmed, Matthew Tonkin, Jan Lemeire, et al.
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-c…