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Overview
Computerized crime mapping or GIS in law enforcement agencies has experienced rapid growth, particularly since the mid 1990s. There has also been increasing interests in GIS analysis of crime from various academic fields including criminology, geography, urban planning, information science and others. This book features a diverse array of GIS applications in crime analysis, from general issues such as GIS as a communication process and inter-jurisdictional data sharing to specific applications in tracking serial killers and predicting juvenile violence. The book showcases a broad range of methods and techniques from typical GIS tasks such as geocoding and hotspot analysis to advanced technologies such as geographic profiling, agent-based modeling and web GIS. Contributors range from university professors, criminologists in research institutes to police chiefs, GIS analysts in police departments and consultants in criminal justice.
Synopsis
Since the mid 1990s, the use of geographic information systems (GIS) in law enforcement agencies has experienced rapid growth. This volume examines a diverse array of GIS applications in crime analysis. Eighteen contributions from academics and practitioners address such topics as interjurisdictional data sharing, single incident geographical profiling, and models for predicting future crime patterns. The volume concludes with two case studies that consider the relationship between neighborhood characteristics and certain types of crimes. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR