The current policing landscape has seen the rise in serious and organized crime across the globe. Criminals are innovating in real-time leveraging cyber, social media, enhanced surveillance to support their activities. In so doing, the criminal landscape has become transnational whereby collaborative networks have flourished thereby creating greater complexity and novel threats for the international policing community. 

Section 1: Policing and Crime Prevention.- Chapter 1: How Offender Decision-Making Can Inform Policing: A Focus on the Perceived Certainty of Apprehension.- Chapter 2: An Epidemiological Framework for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorist Networks.- Chapter 3: Sex Offenders' Forensic Awareness Strategies to Avoid Police Detection.- Chapter 4: Tracking Terrorism: The Role of Technology in Risk Assessment and Monitoring of Terrorist Offenders.- Chapter 5: Human Trafficking and the Darknet.- Section 2: Policing Tools & Strategies.- Chapter 6: Scientific and Technological Advances in Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysis.- Chapter 7: Improving Criminal Investigations With Structured Analytic Techniques.- Chapter 8: Front-end Forensics: An Integrated Forensic Intelligence Model.-Chapter 9: Missing Persons and Runaway Youth: The Role of Social Media as an Alert System and Crime Control Tool.- Chapter 10: Police Engagement in Multidisciplinary Team Approaches to Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children.- Chapter 11: The lived-reality of police helicopter operations - frank and revealing interviews with National Police Air Service personnel.- Chapter 12: Science Informed Major Event Security Planning: From vulnerability analysis to security design.