Crime Modeling and Mapping Using Geospatial Technologies

✍ Scribed by Martin A. Andresen, Nicolas Malleson (auth.), Michael Leitner (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 444
• Series: Geotechnologies and the Environment 8
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Spatial Heterogeneity in Crime Analysis....Pages 3-23
When Does a Drug Market Become a Drug Market? Finding the Boundaries of Illicit Event Concentrations....Pages 25-48
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
Convicted Sex Offender Residential Movements....Pages 51-71
Street-Level Spatiotemporal Crime Analysis: Examples from Bronx County, NY (2006–2010)....Pages 73-104
Exploring Spatial Patterns of Crime Using Non-hierarchical Cluster Analysis....Pages 105-124
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....Pages 125-143
Journey-to-Crime by Gender and Age Group in Manchester, England....Pages 145-178
Front Matter....Pages 179-179
Crime Scene Locations in Criminal Homicides: A Spatial Crime Analysis in a GIS Environment....Pages 181-201
A Methodology for Assessing Dynamic Fine Scale Built Environments and Crime: A Case Study of the Lower 9th Ward After Hurricane Katrina....Pages 203-225
Spatial Contagion of Male Juvenile Drug Offending Across Socioeconomically Homogeneous Neighborhoods....Pages 227-248
Geospatial Modeling and Simulation of Property Crime in Urban Neighborhoods: An Example Model with Foreclosure....Pages 249-267
Measuring a Place’s Exposure to Facilities Using Geoprocessing Models: An Illustration Using Drinking Places and Crime....Pages 269-295
A Spatial Analysis of Methamphetamine Lab Seizures in the Midwest High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Before and After Federal Precursor Legislation....Pages 297-316
Front Matter....Pages 317-317
Comparing Fear of Crime and Crime Statistics on a University Campus....Pages 319-337
Testing the Usability of Time-Geographic Maps for Crime Mapping....Pages 339-366
Understanding Spatiotemporal Patterns of Multiple Crime Types with a Geovisual Analytics Approach....Pages 367-385
Front Matter....Pages 387-387
The Use of Geospatial Information Technology to Advance Safer College Campuses and Communities....Pages 389-413
Construction of a Web-Based Crime Geointelligence Platform for Mexico City’s Public Safety....Pages 415-439
Back Matter....Pages 441-446

✦ Subjects

Geographical Information Systems/Cartography; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law; Criminology & Criminal Justice