Summary
PERF and the National Institute of Justice Crime Mapping Research Center collaborated to highlight various criminal justice agencies’ successes with applying mapping to their problem-solving, prevention and enforcement efforts. The book encourages agencies’ use of crime mapping and offers ideas on various ways to apply geographic information systems and mapping. The second PERF-CMRC volume of crime mapping case studies meets increasing demands for practical information on how crime mapping technologies can be applied to community and police agency problems. It highlights such issues as gun violence, drug crackdowns, neighborhood watch efficacy, identifying serial suspects, sex offender registrant compliance, gang suppression, police agency redistricting/staffing, and many more.
Contents
Vol. 2. 1. The multiple impacts of mapping it out: police, geographic information systems and community mobilization during Devil's Night in Detroit, Michigan / David Martin & others. -- 2. Using crime mapping to address residential burglary / Susan Reno. -- 3. Reducing traffic accidents using geographic analysis / Eric J. Rieckenberg & Tara Grube. -- 4. Close the door on crime: a mapping project / Susan Wernicke. -- 5. Crime mapping by community organizations: initial successes in Hartford's Blue Hills Neighbourhood / Thomas F. Rich. -- 6. The perception of crime hot spots: a spatial study in Nottingham, UK / Jerry H. Ratcliffe & MIchael J. McCullagh. -- 7. The problem of auto theft in Newark. -- 8. Using mapping to increase released offenders' access to services. -- 9. Graphical display of murder trial evidence. -- 10. Baltimore County's autodialer system. -- 11. The Greenway rapist case: matching reoffenders with crime locations. -- 12. Interdicting a burglary patter: GIS and crime analysis in the Auroa Police Department. -- 13. Mapping and serial crime prediction. -- 14. Geospatial analysis of rural burglaries. -- 15. Mapping a murderer's path.