Crime Modeling and Mapping Using Geospatial Technologies

Recent years in North America have seen a rapid development in the area of crime analysis and mapping using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology. In 1996, the US National Institute of Justice (NIJ) established the crime mapping research center (CMRC), to promote research, evaluation, deve...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Leitner, Michael (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2013, 2013
Edition:1st ed. 2013
Series:Geotechnologies and the Environment
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • From the Contents: Spatial Heterogeneity in Crime Analysis
  • When Does a Drug Market Become a Drug Market? Finding the Boundaries of Illicit Event Concentrations
  • Convicted Sex Offender Residential Movements
  • Street-Level Spatiotemporal Crime Analysis: Examples from Bronx County, NY (2006–2010)
  • Exploring Spatial Patterns of Crime Using Non-Hierarchical Cluster Analysis
  • Reconstitution of the Journeys to Crime and Location of their Origin in the Context of a Crime Series. A Raster Solution for a Real Case Study
  • Journey-to-Crime by Gender and Age Group in Manchester, England
  • Crime Scene Locations in Criminal Homicides: A Spatial Crime Analysis in a GIS Environment