Crime Mapping Case Studies: Practice and Research

✍ Scribed by Spencer Chainey, Lisa Tompson

• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 190
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Crime Mapping Case Studies: From Research to Practice provides a series of key examples from practice and research that demonstrate applications of crime mapping and its effect in many areas of policing and crime reduction. This book brings together case studies that show how crime mapping can be used for analysis, intelligence development, monitoring performance, and crime detection and is written by practitioners for practitioners.Leading researchers in the field describe how crime mapping is developing and exposing analytical methodologies and critiquing current practices. Including global case studies that demonstrate a particular application, analytical technique or new theoretical concept, this text offers a truly global overview of this rapidly growing area of interest.Unlike other texts on this topic, this book identifies mistakes and challenges in this field of enquiry to aid the reader in understanding the basics of this technique, giving them the opportunity to learn further.

✦ Table of Contents

Crime Mapping Case Studies......Page 3
Contents......Page 9
List of contributors......Page 15
Preface......Page 17
Part I Developing crime mapping......Page 21
1.1 The starting point......Page 23
1.2 Developing a web-based GIS solution for New Zealand Police......Page 24
1.3 Building on the map-based analytical policing system (MAPS)......Page 25
2.1 Introduction – developments in crime analysis in Rio de Janeiro......Page 29
2.2 Analysis by space–time monitoring cells......Page 31
2.3 Identifying crime patterns using paper maps......Page 34
2.4 Identifying crime patterns in Rio de Janeiro using GIS and digital cartographic base maps......Page 35
2.7 References......Page 38
3.1 Introduction......Page 39
3.2 A phased plan for development and delivery......Page 40
3.3 Progress to date......Page 44
3.5 Conclusions......Page 45
3.6 Reference......Page 46
4.1 Introduction......Page 47
4.2 Automating crime mapping outputs in Lincoln Police Department......Page 48
4.3 Developing the automation of tasks in Lincoln......Page 51
4.4 Automating crime mapping in your agency......Page 52
Part II Geographical investigative analysis......Page 53
5.2 The theoretical principles behind geographic profiling......Page 55
5.3 Geographic profiling methodology......Page 56
5.4 Applying geographic profiling to ‘volume’ crime: the Irvine Chair burglaries......Page 58
5.6 References......Page 62
6.1 Introduction......Page 65
6.2 Applying geographic profiling to a series of indecent assaults in Bath, England......Page 66
6.3 Offender geography......Page 70
6.4 Operational versus academic geographic profiling......Page 71
6.5 Conclusions......Page 72
6.6 References......Page 73
7.1 Introduction......Page 75
7.2 Background......Page 76
7.3 Mapping the data and getting the picture......Page 77
7.4 Predicting the next offence location......Page 78
7.5 Results......Page 80
7.7 Conclusions......Page 81
7.9 References......Page 82
8.1 Introduction......Page 83
8.2 Erving’s series of bank robberies......Page 84
8.3 Analysing Erving’s series......Page 85
8.4 Project ‘Rolling the Dice’......Page 86
8.5 The crucial role of geographical analysis......Page 88
Part III Neighbourhood analysis......Page 89
9.1 Introduction......Page 91
9.2 Alternative resource allocation model......Page 92
9.3 What were the results, outcome and issues?......Page 93
9.5 Reference......Page 94
10.1 Introduction......Page 95
10.2 An alternative Vulnerable Localities Index......Page 96
10.3 Vulnerable localities in Wigan......Page 98
10.4 Using the Vulnerable Localities Index to help understand offending patterns......Page 100
10.7 References......Page 102
11.1 Context and introduction......Page 103
11.2 Implementation, testing and analysis......Page 104
11.3 Results, outcomes and issues......Page 109
11.4 References......Page 110
Part IV Integrating visual audits and survey data into crime mapping......Page 111
12.1 Introduction......Page 113
12.3 Measuring reassurance......Page 114
12.4 Environmental visual audit (EVA)......Page 116
12.5 Practical use of results......Page 117
12.6 Evaluation and next steps......Page 120
12.7 References......Page 122
13.1 Introduction......Page 123
13.3 Methodology......Page 124
13.4 Results......Page 125
13.6 References......Page 129
14.2 Project design and implementation......Page 131
14.3 Methodological considerations......Page 132
14.4 Findings from the NightVision surveys......Page 136
14.6 Conclusions......Page 138
14.7 Reference......Page 139
Part V New techniques......Page 141
15.2 Near repeats in Bournemouth......Page 143
15.3 A methodology for analysis and action......Page 144
15.5 The impact......Page 146
15.6 Conclusions......Page 149
15.7 References......Page 152
16.1 Introduction......Page 153
16.2 Agent-based modelling......Page 154
16.3 Creating a theoretically based simulation model to test routine activity theory......Page 156
16.4 Findings and significance of the research – comparing a simulated environment to the principles of routine activity theory......Page 159
16.6 Implications for practice......Page 160
16.7 References......Page 161
17.2 Assessing target vulnerabilities: two components......Page 163
17.3 Assessing target vulnerabilities: a hypothetical case study......Page 166
17.4 Considerations......Page 170
17.5 References......Page 171
18.1 Introduction......Page 173
18.2 An integrated operational system......Page 174
18.4 Acknowledgement......Page 179
18.5 References......Page 180
Index......Page 181
Color_Plate......Page 183