Mapping out crime prevention

Introduction : Crime Mapping and Crime Prevention

Crime maps have only recently begun to emerge as a significant tool in crime and justice. Until a decade ago, few criminal justice agencies had any capability for creating crime maps, and few investigators had the resources or patience to examine the spatial distribution of crime. Today, however, crime mapping is experiencing what might be termed an explosion of interest among both scholars and...

Taking out the Interesting Bits? Problem Solving and Crime Prevention

National and international experience now leave no doubt that methods other than enforcement of criminal law are effective in reducing crime and associated harm. In particular, initiatives that are based on routine activity and situational theory, and those that concentrate on addressing specific, well-defined problems, have been demonstrated to have greater impact and to be less costly than "l...

Crime Prevention Techniques and Crime Prevention in Turkey

Conceptually, security concept is always tend to expand its own limitations. Current global events, emerging new situations and resulting needs in this area often make the changes obligatory and inevitable. Today, the fight against crime and criminality follows a path which aims to identify and clarify the crime begining from the emergence of the criminal activity until the capture and detentio...

Crime Mapping and Analysis

there are often differences in data structure designs, data encoding approaches, data accessing and processing methods for these two types of geographic phenomena. Geographic coverage is a concept for continuous phenomena. Geographic coverage standards defines conceptual schema for coverage and analyze coverage types and components, e. g., [1]. These include characteristics of spatiotemporal do...

Prevention of Crime