Geographic information systems and crime analysis
Title:
Geographic information systems and crime analysis
Author:
Wang, Fahui, 1967-
ISBN:
9781591404552
Publication Information:
Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2005.
Physical Description:
electronic texts (xii, 345 p. : ill., maps) : digital files.
Contents:
1. GIS as a communication process : experiences from the Milwaukee COMPASS Project / Jochen Albrecht, James Pingel -- 2. Interjurisdictional law enforcement data sharing issues : benefits of the use of geo-spatial technologies and barriers to more widespread cooperation / Mark R. Leipnik, Donald P. Albert -- 3. Garbage in, garbage out : geocoding accuracy and spatial analysis of crime / Tess McCarthy, Jerry Ratcliffe -- 4. Disaggregating the journey to homicide / Elizabeth Groff, J. Thomas McEwen -- 5. Constructing geographic areas for analysis of homicide in small populations : testing herding-culture-of-honor proposition / Fahui Wang, Van M. O'Brien -- 6. Geographic profiling for serial crime investigation / D. Kim Rossmo, Ian Laverty, Brad Moore -- 7. Single incident geographical profiling / Richard Z. Gore, Nikolas J. Tofiluk, Kenneth V. Griffiths -- 8. Geographic profiling and spatial analysis of serial homicides / Sunghoon Roh, Mark R. Leipnik -- 9. Geographic surveillance of crime frequencies in small areas / Peter A. Rogerson -- 10. Application of tracking signals to detect time series pattern changes in crime mapping systems / Wilpen L. Gorr, Shannon A. McKay -- 11. Integrating GIS, GPS and MIS on the Web : EMPACT in Florida / Gregory A. Frost -- 12. Simulating crime events and crime patterns in a RA/CA model / Lin Liu ... [et al.] -- 13. Integrating GIS and maximal covering models to determine optimal police patrol areas / Kevin M. Curtin ... [et al.] --
14. Web GIS for mapping community crime rates / Tung-Kai Shyy ... [et al.] -- 15. Identifying "hot link" between crime and crime-related locations / Yongmei Lu -- 16. Remote sensing and spatial statistics as tools in crime analysis / Dongmei Chen -- 17. Routine activities of youth and neighborhood violence : spatial modeling of place, time and crime / Caterina Gouvis Roman -- 18. Measuring crime in and around public housing using GIS / Harold R. Holzman.
Abstract:
"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"--Provided by publisher.
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