Crime mapping case studies
Subtitle: practice and research
By: Spencer Chainey and Lisa Tompson, editors.
Contributors: Chainey, Spencer.; Tompson, Lisa.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780470516089
Subjects: Crime analysis -- Data processing; Geographic information systems; Digital mapping
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Developing GIS and crime mapping tools in New Zealand / Richard McKee, Andy Gilmore, Jill Barclay; title: An analytical technique for addressing geographical referencing difficulties and monitoring crimes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / Ana Paula Mendes de Miranda and Marcus Ferreira; title: Methods for implementing crime mapping within a large law enforcement agency : experiences from Victoria, Australia / Tim Mashford; title: Automating briefings for police officers / Tom Casady; title: Geographic profiling analysis : principles, methods, and applications / D. Kim Rossmo and Lorie Velarde; title: Geographic profiling in an operational setting : the challenges and practical considerations, with reference to a series of sexual assaults in Bath, England / Claire Daniell; title: The Hammer Gang : an exercise in the spatial analysis of an armed robbery series using the probability grid method / Chris Overall and Gregory Day; title: Rolling the Dice : the arrest of Roosevelt Erving in Lincoln, Nebraska / Tom Casady; title: The strategic allocation of resources to effectively implement neighbourhood policing and the community safety plan / Alice O'Neill; title: Priority neighbourhoods and the Vulnerable Localities Index in Wigan : a strategic partnership approach to crime reduction / Ian Bullen; title: Reducing re-offending in local communities : GIS-based strategic analysis of Greater Manchester's offenders / David Ottiwell; title: COSMOS : mapping reassurance using survey data / Stephen Rose; title: Mapping the fear of crime : a micro-approach in Merton, London / Chris Williams; title: NightVision : visual auditing of night-time economy related incidents in Bath and north east Somerset / Jon Poole; title: The near repeat burglary phenomenon / Derek Johnson; title: Simulating crime to inform theory and practice / Elizabeth Groff; title: A crime mapping technique for assessing vulnerable targets for terrorism in local communities / Rachel Boba; title: Interactive Offender Profiling System (IOPS) / David Canter and Donna Youngs.