Crime Mapping Case Studies: Practice and Research

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.

List of contributors. Preface. Part I Developing crime mapping. 1 Developing geographical information systems and crime mapping tools in New Zealand (Andy Gilmour and Jill Barclay). 1.1 The starting point. 1.2 Developing a web-based GIS solution for New Zealand Police. 1.3 Building on the map-based analytical policing system (MAPS). 2 An analytical technique for addressing geographical referencing difficulties and monitoring crimes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Ana Paula Mendes de Miranda and Marcus Ferreira). 2.1 Introduction - developments in crime analysis in Rio de Janeiro. 2.2 Analysis by space-time monitoring cells. 2.3 Identifying crime patterns using paper maps. 2.4 Identifying crime patterns in Rio de Janeiro using GIS and digital cartographic base maps. 2.5 Crime analyses on bus routes in Rio de Janeiro. 2.6 Conclusions. 2.7 References. 3 Methods for implementing crime mapping within a large law enforcement agency: experiences from Victoria, Australia (Timothy Mashford). 3.1 Introduction. 3.2 A phased plan for development and delivery. 3.3 Progress to date. 3.4 Crime mapping projects - some examples. 3.5 Conclusions. 3.6 Reference. 4 Automating briefings for police officers (Tom Casady). 4.1 Introduction. 4.2 Automating crime mapping outputs in Lincoln Police Department. 4.3 Developing the automation of tasks in Lincoln. 4.4 Automating crime mapping in your agency. Part II Geographical investigative analysis. 5 Geographic profiling analysis: principles, methods and applications (D. Kim Rossmo and Lorie Velarde). 5.1 Introduction. 5.2 The theoretical principles behind geographic profiling. 5.3 Geographic profiling methodology. 5.4 Applying geographic profiling to 'volume' crime: the Irvine Chair burglaries. 5.5 Measuring the effects of geographic profiling in Irvine. 5.6 References. 6 Geographic profiling in an operational setting: the challenges and practical considerations, with reference to a series of sexual assaults in Bath, England (Clare Daniell). 6.1 Introduction. 6.2 Applying geographic profiling to a series of indecent assaults in Bath, England. 6.3 Offender geography. 6.4 Operational versus academic geographic profiling. 6.5 Conclusions. 6.6 References. 7 The Hammer Gang: an exercise in the spatial analysis of an armed robbery series using the probability grid method (Chris Overall and Gregory Day). 7.1 Introduction. 7.2 Background. 7.3 Mapping the data and getting the picture. 7.4 Predicting the next offence location. 7.5 Results. 7.6 Issues in application of the probability grid method. 7.7 Conclusions. 7.8 Acknowledgements. 7.9 References. 8 'Rolling the Dice': the arrest of Roosevelt Erving in Lincoln, Nebraska (Tom Casady). 8.1 Introduction. 8.2 Erving's series of bank robberies. 8.3 Analysing Erving's series. 8.4 Project 'Rolling the Dice'. 8.5 The crucial role of geographical analysis. Part III Neighbourhood analysis. 9 The strategic allocation of resources to effectively implement Neighbourhood Policing and the Community Safety Plan (Alice O'Neill). 9.1 Introduction. 9.2 Alternative resource allocation model. 9.3 What were the results, outcome and issues? 9.4 The future. 9.5 Reference. 10 Priority neighbourhoods and the Vulnerable Localities Index in Wigan - a strategic partnership approach to crime reduction (Ian Bullen). 10.1 Introduction. 10.2 An alternative Vulnerable Localities Index. 10.3 Vulnera