Coronavirus: A Curse or a bless ?

ABSTRACT

Nowadays crime is one of the major threats that affect human lives. The current pandemic has a great impact on changing the criminal landscape. Extensive investigations for crime and criminal behaviors have revealed new crime patterns and led to the generation of a large amount of data and relations that need to be presented in a proper model. In this paper, we conduct several experiments on different datasets representing some major cities in the USA to study the effect of the current pandemic on crime types, rates, and intensity which can be used in crime prediction and prevention. we also introduce an ontology model with its underlying description logics as the knowledge representation model to represent crime information. © 2021 Association for Computing Machinery.