Analyzing Crime Patterns: Frontiers of Practice / Edition 1

by Victor Goldsmith, Philip G. McGuire, John H. Mollenkopf, Timothy A. Ross

Overview

This volume shows how state-of-the-art geographic information systems (GIS), used to display patterns of crime to stimulate effective strategies and decision-making, are revolutionizing urban law enforcement. The contributors present expert information for understanding and successfully employing the latest technologies in this field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761919407
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	11/18/1999
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

	Foreword	vii
	Acknowledgments	viii
Part I.	Introduction: Operational Imperatives and Intellectual Cautionary Tales	1
1.	Using a Geographic Information System for Tactical Crime Analysis	3
2.	The New York Police Department Compstat Process: Mapping for Analysis, Evaluation, and Accountability	11
3.	Filters, Fears, and Photos: Speculations and Explorations in the Geography of Crime	23
4.	The Spatial Analysis of Crime: What Social Scientists Have Learned	33
Part II.	Analyzing Crime Hot Spots in New York	47
5.	Finding Crime Hot Spots Through Repeat Address Mapping	49
6.	Exploratory Data Analysis of Crime Patterns: Preliminary Findings From the Bronx	65
7.	Identifying Crime Hot Spots Using Kernel Smoothing	77
8.	The Utility of Standard Deviation Ellipses for Evaluating Hot Spots	87
Part III.	Crime and Facilities	105
9.	Crime, Space, and Place: An Analysis of Crime Patterns in Brooklyn	107
10.	Crime in Public Housing: Two-Way Diffusion Effects in Surrounding Neighborhoods	121
11.	The Bronx and Chicago: Street Robbery in the Environs of Rapid Transit Stations	137
12.	Schools and Crime	153
Part IV.	Tools for Spatial Analysis	167
13.	Evaluating Statistical Software for Analyzing Crime Patterns and Trends	169
	Index	179
	About the Authors	000

Editorial Reviews

Twelve contributors show how state-of-the-art geographic information systems (GIS) are changing urban law enforcement, based on the experiences of a program in New York City. Addressed are the organizational and intellectual contexts in which spatial analysis of crime occurs; technical matters involved in defining, measuring, interpreting, and predicting spatial concentrations of crime; crime and facilities; and other topics. Of likely interest to academics, practitioners, and policy makers in the fields of criminal justice, corrections, public administration, and related fields. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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