Crime Mapping Case Studies Practice and Research

by Chainey, Spencer; Tompson, Lisa

• ISBN13: 9780470516089
• ISBN10: 0470516089
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-17
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Spencer Chainey is the editor of Crime Mapping Case Studies: Practice and Research, published by Wiley. Lisa Tompson is the editor of Crime Mapping Case Studies: Practice and Research, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

List of contributors

Preface

Developing crime mapping

Developing geographical information systems and crime mapping tools in New Zealand

The starting point

Developing a web-based GIS solution for New Zealand Police

Building on the map-based analytical policing system (MAPS

An analytical technique for addressing geographical referencing difficulties and monitoring crimes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Introduction - developments in crime analysis in Rio de Janeiro

Analysis by space-time monitoring cells

Identifying crime patterns using paper maps

Identifying crime patterns in Rio de Janeiro using GIS and digital cartographic base maps

Crime analyses on bus routes in Rio de Janeiro

Conclusions

References

Methods for implementing crime mapping within a large law enforcement agency: experiences from Victoria, Australia

Introduction

A phased plan for development and delivery

Progress to date

Crime mapping projects - some examples

Conclusions

Reference

Automating briefings for police officers

Introduction

Automating crime mapping outputs in Lincoln Police Department

Developing the automation of tasks in Lincoln

Automating crime mapping in your agency

Geographical investigative analysis

Geographic profiling analysis: principles, methods and applications

Introduction

The theoretical principles behind geographic profiling

Geographic profiling methodology

Applying geographic profiling to 'volume' crime: the Irvine Chair burglaries

Measuring the effects of geographic profiling in Irvine

References

Geographic profiling in an operational setting: the challenges and practical considerations, with reference to a series of sexual assaults in Bath, England

Introduction

Applying geographic profiling to a series of indecent assaults in Bath, England

Offender geography

Operational versus academic geographic profiling

Conclusions

References

The Hammer Gang: an exercise in the spatial analysis of an armed robbery series using the probability grid method

Introduction

Background

Mapping the data and getting the picture

Predicting the next offence location

Results

Issues in application of the probability grid method

Conclusions

Acknowledgements

References

'Rolling the Dice': the arrest of Roosevelt Erving in Lincoln, Nebraska

Introduction

Erving's series of bank robberies

Analysing Erving's series

Project 'Rolling the Dice'

The crucial role of geographical analysis

Neighbourhood analysis

The strategic allocation of resources to effectively implement Neighbourhood Policing and the Community Safety Plan

Introduction

Alternative resource allocation model

What were the results, outcome and issues?

The future

Reference

Priority neighbourhoods and the Vulnerable Localities Index in Wigan - a strategic partnership approach to crime reduction

Introduction

An alternative Vulnerable Localities Index

Vulnera

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