Dutch Ministry of Justice

About: Dutch Ministry of Justice is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: Poison control & Prison. The organization has 111 authors who have published 153 publications receiving 2764 citations.

Criminal networks in a digitised world: on the nexus of borderless opportunities and local embeddedness

Abstract: This article presents the results of empirical analyses of the use of information technology (IT) by organized crime groups. In particular, it explores how the use of IT affects the processes of origin and growth of criminal networks. The empirical data presented in this article consist of 30 large scale criminal investigations into organized crime, including traditional organized crime, traditional organized crime in which IT is an innovative element, low tech cybercrimes and high tech cybercrimes. Networks involved in cybercrimes or traditional crimes with an innovative IT element can be characterized as a mixture of old school criminals that have a long criminal career, and a limited number of technically skilled members. Furthermore, almost all cases have a local dimension. Also the cybercrime cases. Dutch sellers of drugs on online marketplace, for example, mainly work for customers in the Netherlands and surrounding countries.

Handling uncertainty and ignorance in databases : A rule to combine dependent data

Abstract: In many applications, uncertainty and ignorance go hand in hand. Therefore, to deliver database support for effective decision making, an integrated view of uncertainty and ignorance should be taken. So far, most of the efforts attempted to capture uncertainty and ignorance with probability theory. In this paper, we discuss the weakness to capture ignorance with probability theory, and propose an approach inspired by the Dempster-Shafer theory to capture uncertainty and ignorance. Then, we present a rule to combine dependent data that are represented in different relations. Such a rule is required to perform joins in a consistent way. We illustrate that our rule is able to solve the so-called problem of information loss, which was considered as an open problem so far.

A Conceptual Framework for Addressing IoT Threats: Challenges in Meeting Challenges

Abstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) is rapidly growing, and offers many economical and societal potentials and benefits. Nevertheless, the IoT also introduces new threats to our Security, Privacy and Safety (SPS). The existing work on mitigating these SPS threats often fails to address the fundamental challenges behind the mitigation measures proposed, and fails to make the relations between different mitigation measures explicit. This paper, therefore, offers a conceptual framework for understanding and approaching the challenges and obstacles that arise in addressing the SPS threats of the IoT. This contribution aims to help policymakers in adopting policies and strategies that stimulate others to develop, deploy and use IoT devices, applications and services in secure, privacy-friendly and safe ways.