NCJ Number
170277
Editor(s)
D Weisburd,
T McEwen
Date Published
1997
Length
431 pages
Annotation
This book examines the role of crime mapping in crime prevention programs.
Abstract
The contributions in this book demonstrate the important role that crime maps have begun to play in crime prevention theory and applications. The individual chapters provide information concerning: (1) the geoarchive as an information foundation for community policing; (2) using geographical tools with interagency work groups to develop and implement crime control strategies; (3) crime mapping and information sharing in police departments; (4) geographic information systems and crime analysis; (5) comparative perceptions of dangerous places; (6) mapping gangs and gang violence; (7) mapping crime for analytic purposes; (8) mapping out repeat-address burglary alarms and burglaries; (9) artificial neural networks and crime mapping; (10) SMART mapping for law enforcement settings: integrating GIS and GPS for dynamic, near-real-time applications and analysis; and (11) mapping theories with data. Notes, references, tables, figures, appendix, index