Analyzing crime patterns
Subtitle: frontiers of practice
By: Victor Goldsmith, ... [et al.], editors.
Contributors: Goldsmith, Victor.
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Crime analysis -- United States.; Criminal statistics -- United States.; Spatial behavior -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Introduction : operational imperatives and intellectual cautionary tales; title: Using a geographic information system for tactical crime analysis / Philip Canter; title: The New York Police Department COMPSTAT process : mapping for analysis, evaluation and accountability / Philip G. McGuire; title: Filters, fears, and photos : speculations and explorations in the geography of crime / Keith Harries; title: The spatial analysis of crime : what social scientists have learned / Charles Swartz; title: Pt. 2 Analyzing crime hot spots in New York; title: Finding crime hot spots through repeat address mapping / John E. Eck, Jeffrey S. Gersh and Charlene Taylor; title: Exploratory data analysis of crime patterns : preliminary findings from the Bronx / Sanjoy Chakravorty and William V. Pelfrey; title: Identifying crime hot spots using kernel smoothing / Sara Mclafferty, Doug Williamson, and Philip G. McGuire; title: The utility of standard deviation ellipses for evaluating hot spots / Robert H. Langworthy and Eric S. Jefferis; title: Pt. 3. Crime and facilities; title: Crime, space, and place : an analysis of crime patterns in Brooklyn / Thomas Kamber, John H. Mollenkopf and Timothy A. Ross; title: Crime in public housing : two-way diffusion effects in surrounding neighborhoods / Jeffrey Fagan and Garth Davies; title: The Bronx and Chicago : street robbery in the environs of rapid transit stations / Richard Block and Carolyn Rebecca Block; title: Schools and crime / Dennis W. Roncek; title: Pt. 4. Tools for spatial analysis; title: Evaluating statistical software for analyzing crime patterns and trends / Doug Williamson, ... [et al.].