Crime modeling and mapping using geospatial technologies
By: Michael Leitner, editor
Series: Geotechnologies and the environment -- v. 8; Geotechnologies and the environment -- v. 8.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Dordrecht; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9789400749962
Subjects: Crime; Geographic information systems; Geospatial data; Criminal statistics
Description: Recent years in North America have seen a rapid development in the area of crime analysis and mapping using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology. In 1996, the US National Institute of Justice (NIJ) established the crime mapping research center (CMRC), to promote research, evaluation, development, and dissemination of GIS technology. The long-term goal is to develop a fully functional Crime Analysis System (CAS) with standardized data collection and reporting mechanisms, tools for spatial and temporal analysis, visualization of data and much more.  Among the drawbacks of current crime analysis systems is their lack of tools for spatial analysis. For this reason, spatial analysts should research which current analysis techniques (or variations of such techniques) that have been already successfully applied to other areas (e.g., epidemiology, location-allocation analysis, etc.) can also be employed to the spatial analysis of crime data. This book presents a few of those cases.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Spatial heterogeneity in crime analysis / Martin A. Andresen, Nicolas Malleson; title: When does a drug market become a drug market? Finding the boundaries of illicit event concentrations / Lallen Johnson, Jerry H. Ratcliffe; title: Convicted sex offender residential movements / Alan T. Murray ... [et al.]; title: Street-level spatiotemporal crime analysis: examples from Bronx County, NY (2006-2010) / Christopher R. Herrmann; title: Exploring spatial patterns of crime using non-hierarchical cluster analysis / Alan T. Murray, Tony H. Grubesic; title: Reconstitution of the journeys to crime and location of their origin in the context of a crime series. A raster solution for a real case study / Jean-Paul Kasprzyk ... [et al.]; title: Journey-to-crime by gender and age group in Manchester, England / Ned Levine, Patsy Lee; title: Crime scene locations in criminal homicides: a spatial crime analysis in a GIS environment / Hyun Kim, Yongwan Chun, Casey Anderson Gould; title: A methodology for assessing dynamic fine scale built environments and crime: a case study of the Lower 9th Ward after Hurricane Katrina / Andrew Curtis ... [et al.]; title: Spatial contagion of male juvenile drug offending across socioeconomically homogeneous neighborhoods / Jeremy Mennis, Philip Harris; title: Geospatial modeling and simulation of property crime in urban neighborhoods: an example model with foreclosure / Jay Lee, Ronald E. Wilson; title: Measuring a place's exposure to facilities using geoprocessing models: an illustration using drinking places and crime / Elizabeth Groff; title: A spatial analysis of methamphetamine lab seizures in the midwest high-intensity drug trafficking area before and after federal precursor legislation / Aaron H. Gilbreath; title: Comparing fear of crime and crime statistics on a university campus / Sven Fuhrmann, Niem Tu Huynh, Ruojing Scholz; title: Testing the usability of time-geographic maps for crime mapping / John D. Morgan, Philip E. Steinberg; title: Understanding spatiotemporal patterns of multiple crime types with a geovisual analytics approach / Diansheng Guo, Jiang Wu; title: The use of geospatial information technology to advance safer college campuses and communities / Gregory Elmes, George Roedl; title: Construction of a web-based crime geointelligence platform for Mexico City's public safety / Elvia Martínez-Viveros ... [et al.].