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Analyzing Crime Patterns
Frontiers of Practice
- Victor Goldsmith - Hunter College, University of New York, USA, co-founder,Pravah and Director, Learning Voyages, Pravah, New Delhi
- Philip G. McGuire - New York City Police Department
- John B. Mollenkopf - City University of New York, Graduate Center
- Timothy A. Ross - Vera Institute of Justice
January 2000 | 200 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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.
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION: OPERATIONAL IMPERATIVES AND INTELLECTUAL CAUTIONARY TALES
Philip Canter
Using a Geographic Information System for Tactical Crime Analysis
Philip G McGuire
The NYPD COMPSTAT Process
Keith Harries
Filter, Fears and Photos
Charles Swartz
The Spatial Analysis of Crime
PART TWO: ANALYZING CRIME HOT SPOTS IN NEW YORK
John E Eck, Jeffrey Gersh and Charlene Taylor
Finding Crime Hot Spots through Repeat Address Mapping
Sanjoy Chakravorty and William V Pelfrey
Exploratory Data Analysis of Crime Patterns
Sara McLafferty, Doug Williamson and Philip G McGuire
Identifying Crime Hot Spots Using Kernel Smoothing
Robert H Langworthy and Eric S Jefferis
The Utility of Standard Deviation Ellipses for Evaluating Hot Spots
PART THREE: CRIME AND FACILITIES
Thomas Kamber, John H Mollenkopf and Timothy A Ross
Crime, Space and Place
Jeffrey Fagan and Garth Davies
Crime in Public Housing
Carolyn Rebecca Block and Richard Block
The Bronx and Chicago
Dennis W Roncek
Schools and Crime
PART FOUR: TOOLS FOR SPATIAL ANALYSIS
Victor Goldsmith et al
Evaluating Statistical Software for Analyzing Crime Patterns and Trends
