Math Models for Solving Crimes

From recent predictive modeling advances: " ... Most crime happens somewhere familiar to the criminal. Burglars return to the scenes of a crime to replicate the success or exploit vulnerabilities identified during previous offenses, according to Andrea Bertozzi, a professor at UCLA and one of the authors of Dissipation and Displacement of Hotspots in Reaction-Diffusion Models of Crime, which will appear in the March 2, 2010 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences... "