Analyzing Crime Patterns : Frontiers of Practice.

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 th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Goldsmith, Victor
Otros Autores: McGuire, Philip G., Mollenkopf, John H., Ross, Timothy A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 1999.
Temas:
Crime analysis > United States.
Criminal statistics > United States.
Spatial behavior > United States.
Criminalité > Analyse > États-Unis.
Statistiques criminelles > États-Unis.
Crime analysis
Criminal statistics
Spatial behavior
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • PART I
  • INTRODUCTION: Operational Imperatives and Intellectual Cautionary Tales
  • Chapter 1
  • Using a Geographic Information System for Tactical Crime Analysis
  • Chapter 2
  • The New York Police Department COMPSTAT Process: Mapping for Analysis, Evaluation, and Accountability
  • Chapter 3
  • Filters, Fears, and Photos: Speculations and Explorations in the Geography of Crime
  • Chapter 4
  • The Spatial Analysis of Crime: What Social Scientists Have Learned
  • PART II -ANALYZING CRIME HOT SPOTS IN NEW YORK.
  • Chapter 5
  • Finding Crime Hot Spots Through Repeat Address Mapping
  • Chapter 6 -Exploratory Data Analysis of Crime Patterns: Preliminary Findings From the Bronx
  • Chapter 7
  • Identifying Crime Hot Spots Using Kernel Smoothing
  • Chapter 8
  • The Utility of Standard Deviation Ellipses for Evaluating Hot Spots
  • PART III
  • CRIME AND FACILITIES
  • Chapter 9
  • Crime, Space, and Place: An Analysis of Crime Patterns in Brooklyn
  • Chapter 10
  • Crime in Public Housing: Two-Way Diffusion Effects in Surrounding Neighborhoods.
  • Chapter 11
  • The Bronx and Chicago: Street Robbery in the Environs of Rapid Transit Stations
  • Chapter 12
  • Schools and Crime
  • PART IV
  • TOOLS FOR SPATIAL ANALYSIS
  • Chapter 13
  • Evaluating Statistical Software for Analyzing Crime Patterns and Trends
  • Index
  • About the Authors.

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