A small but growing North American trend is the publication of maps of crime on the Internet. A number of web sites allow observers to view the spatial distribution of crime in various American cities, often to a considerable resolution, and increasingly in an interactive format. The use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) technology to map crime is a rapidly expanding field that is, as t...

This paper is a review paper of journal and conference papers published in the field of crime prediction. Crime prediction is a growing field in the field of prediction. More and more law enforcement agencies are using or going to implement crime prediction software. In this paper firstly, data collection methods and findings of this paper are described and afterward the collected papers are de...

not available at this time. 2 Applying Crime Mapping and Analysis Techniques to Forecast Insurgent Attacks in Iraq Joseph Mlakar, Operations Research Analyst, United States Marine Corps, 3300 Russell Road, Quantico VA 22554, United States of America, [email protected] We begin by finding series of attacks that are linked to the same insurgent or insurgent group. Each series is analyzed spa...

Crime mapping has long been an integral part of the process known today as crime analysis. The New York City Police Department, for example, has traced the use of maps back to at least 1900. The traditional crime map was a jumbo representation of a jurisdiction with pins stuck in it (figure 1.1). The old pin maps were useful for showing where crimes occurred, but they had serious limitations. A...

This contribution presents an approach to visualize crime scene analysis results with three-dimensional geovirtual environments. Commonly, the results of those crime data analyses are published trough thematic maps. Therefore cartographic visualizations can be considered as a key element to communicate the outcomes of crime analysis. Those visualizations produced by crime analysts both in opera...

The recent change in emphasis from reactive to proactive law enforcement, as evidenced by such concepts as community-oriented policing, has resulted in the need for tools to support these efforts. While geographic information systems (GISs) have been very successful at tracking criminal activity, proactive law enforcement requires systems that anticipate the emergence of criminal activity. One ...

CrimeStat is a spatial statistics and visualization program that interfaces with desktop GIS packages. It is a standalone Windows program for the analysis of crime incident locations and can interface with most desktop GIS programs. Its aim is to provide statistical tools to help law enforcement agencies and criminal justice researchers in their crime mapping efforts. The program has many stati...