Crime Mapping Case Studies Practice and

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.

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.

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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