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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

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Crime Prevention | Research Methods for Criminology & Criminal Justice

November 1999 | 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

Mapping for Analysis, Evaluation and Accountability

Keith Harries

Filter, Fears and Photos

Speculations and Explorations in the Geography of Crime

Charles Swartz

The Spatial Analysis of Crime

What Social Scientists Have Learned

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

Preliminary Findings from the Bronx

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

An Analysis of Crime Patterns in Brooklyn

Jeffrey Fagan and Garth Davies

Crime in Public Housing

Two-Way Diffusion Effects in Surrounding Neighborhoods

Carolyn Rebecca Block and Richard Block

The Bronx and Chicago

Street Robbery in the Environs of Rapid Transit Stations

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

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