Prediction of Future Possible Offender's Network and Role of Offenders

Data mining is a process of extracting information and discovering patterns from large amount of data. Crime Analysis can be a lucrative application of data mining. Data mining can play an important role in analyzing and predicting crimes using the data stored in repositories. Crime rate in India is increasing day by day, becoming a topic of major concern, hindering good governance in India. Due to awful growth in crime rate, it has become impossible to analyze those crime related data and detect crime patterns or predict future crimes by intelligence agencies or local law enforcement agencies. This paper presents a detailed analysis of the network of co-offenders, collaboration and dissolution of organized crime groups, identifying various relevant crime patterns, hidden links, link prediction and statistical analysis of crime data. This study will be helpful to law enforcing agencies in making strategies and tactics to address crime and disorder.