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Crime Mapping Case Studies: From Research to Practice ℗¡provides a series of key examples from practice and research that demonstrate applications of crime mapping and its effect in many areas of policing and crime reduction. This book brings together case studies that show how crime mapping can be...
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Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | English |
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470987193 |
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Crime Mapping Case Studies: From Research to Practice ℗¡provides a series of key examples from practice and research that demonstrate applications of crime mapping and its effect in many areas of policing and crime reduction. This book brings together case studies that show how crime mapping can be used for analysis, intelligence development, monitoring performance, and crime detection and is written by practitioners for practitioners. Leading researchers in the field describe how crime mapping is developing and exposing analytical methodologies and critiquing current practices. Including globa. |
Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xviii, 162 pages, [8] pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9780470987193 0470987197 9780470987186 0470987189 1281319988 9781281319982 |
Index Number: | HV7936 |
CLC: | D917.3 |
Contents: | Developing geographical information systems and crime mapping tools in New Zealand / Andy Gilmore and Jill Barclay -- An analytical technique for addressing geographical referencing difficulties and monitoring crimes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / Ana Paula Mendes de Miranda and Marcus Ferreira -- Methods for implementing crime mapping within a large law enforcement agency : experiences from Victoria, Australia / Timothy Mashford -- Automating briefings for police officers / Tom Casady -- Geographic profiling analysis : principles, methods and applications / D. Kim Rossmo and Lorie Velarde -- Geographic profiling in an operational setting : the challenges and practical considerations, with reference to a series of sexual assaults in Bath, England / Claire Daniell -- The Hammer Gang : an exercise in the spatial analysis of an armed robbery series using the probability grid method / Chris Overall and Gregory Day -- 'Rolling the Dice' : the arrest of Roosevelt Erving in Lincoln, Nebraska / Tom Casady -- The strategic allocation of resources to effectively implement neighbourhood policing and the community safety plan / Alice O'Neill -- Priority neighbourhoods and the Vulnerable Localities Index in Wigan : a strategic partnership approach to crime reduction / Ian Bullen -- Reducing re-offending in local communities : geographical information system based strategic analysis of Greater Manchester's offenders / David Ottiwell -- Community Safety Mapping Online System : mapping reassurance using survey data / Steven Rose -- Mapping the fear of crime : a micro-approach in Merton, London / Chris Williams -- NightVision : visual auditing of night-time economy related incidents in Bath and north-east Somerset / Jon Poole -- The near repeat burglary phenomenon / Derek Johnson -- Simulating crime to inform theory and practice / Elizabeth Groff -- A crime mapping technique for assessing vulnerable targets for terrorism in local communities / Rachel Boba -- Interactive Offender Profiling System (IOPS) / David Canter and Donna Youngs. |