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                            Funding & Awards
 Research on Offender Decision-Making Utilizing Geo-Narratives
Award Information
Awardee
              Kent State University
Award #
              2013-R2-CX-0004
Funding Category
              Competitive
Location
                    Kent, OH
Awardee County
              Portage
Congressional District
              13
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2013
Total funding (to date)
              $472,456
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY 13 Research on Offender Decision-Making
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2013, $472,456)
The purpose of this research project is to contextualize neighborhood crime geography as seen through the eyes of ex-offenders, police officers, and community residents.  Additionally, a novel method employed by this research, spatial video, will assess the implementation of Crime Prevention through Environmental Design principals; specifically examining the impact of land clearing on the revitalization of neighborhoods.   Through the use of geo-narratives, the research will examine the impact of the insights provided by ex-offenders, police officers, and community residents against the method, simply spatial video, to test which should be translated to other environments.  The use of these methods will be evaluated against 911 and/or calls-for-service data. The goal of this project is to test:  To what degree is there spatial consistency in neighborhood crime insight maps created by ex-offenders with existing crime and 911 call-out data hotspots?  How do these perceptions fit with non-offenders and neighborhood police officers?  Do these neighborhood crime insight maps reveal environmental signatures that can be translated to other Akron neighborhoods in order to explain and predict crime patterns?
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Grant-Funded Publications
        
                      Classifying crime places by neighborhood visual appearance and police geonarratives: a machine learning approach
                  WHERE'S THE CRIME? EXPLORING DIVERGENCES BETWEEN CALL DATA AND PERCEPTIONS OF LOCAL CRIME
                  Same Space - Different Perspectives: Comparative Analysis of Geographic Context Through Sketch Maps and Spatial Video Geonarratives
                  Understanding the Criminogenic Properties of Vacant Housing: A Mixed Methods Approach
                  Same Space - Different Perspectives: Comparative Analysis Of Geographic Context Through Sketch Maps and Spatial Video Geonarratives
                  Research on Offender Decision-Making Utilizing Geo-Narratives: Final Report
                  Same Space - Different Perspectives: Comparative Analysis of Geographic Context Through Sketch Maps And Spatial Video Geonarratives
                  Context and Spatial Nuance Inside a Neighborhood's Drug Hotspot: Implications for the Crime-Health Nexus
                  Breaking Out of Surveillance Silos: Integrative Geospatial Data Collection for Child Injury Risk and Active School Transport
                  Spatial Video Geonarratives and Health: Case Studies in Post Disaster Recovery, Crime, Mosquito Control and Tuberculosis in the Homeless

  
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