Urban Crime Mapping and Analysis Using GIS
A special issue of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (ISSN 2220-9964).
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Interests: geography of crime; medical geography; computer cartography
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Dear Colleagues,
Spatial crime analysis and mapping started mostly by geographers in the early 1970s. The concurrent rise of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) coupled with the development of spatial crime analysis software programs led to a powerful suite of spatial analysis and visualization tools that allowed the rapid analysis of large amounts of crime incident data. As a result, spatial crime analysis became increasingly popular as a practical tool for law enforcement and as a research and teaching tool in geography, criminal justice, and other related programs.
This Special Issue is a follow-up publication of an edited book (Leitner 2013) and two previously published Special Issues (Leitner and Helbich 2015, Helbich and Leitner 2017) on crime analysis, modeling, and mapping. We believe that this new collection of papers will contribute to the contemporary research agenda on spatial and temporal crime-related issues. We encourage both theoretical as well as application-oriented papers dealing with these emerging issues. Our interest is in papers that cover a wide spectrum of methodological and domain-specific topics, including, but not limited to, the following:
- Big Data
- Crime and Place
- Crime Forecasting
- Crime Perception
- Criminogenic Factors
- Exceptional Events and Crime
- Geographic Profiling
- Hot Spot Analysis
- Human Trafficking
- Micro-Spatial Crime Analysis
- Modeling and Mapping Large Volume Crime
- Near Repeat Pattern Analysis
- Predictive Policing
- Relationship between Alcohol-Serving Establishments and Disorder
- Relationship between Foreclosure and Crime
- Risk Terrain Modeling
- Sex Offender Residency Restriction Laws
- Simulation Modeling
- Social Media
- Social Network Analysis
- Spatial Analysis of Gang Activities
- Spatial and Temporal Crime Analysis
- Temporal Approximation
- Terrorism
- Traffic Accidents Analysis
- University Campus Crime
- 3-D Crime Modeling
- Etc.
Prof. Michael Leitner
Ms. Alina Ristea
Guest Editors
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References
Helbich, M. and M. Leitner (eds.) (2017) Frontiers in Spatial and Spatiotemporal Crime Analytics. Special Issue of ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 6 (3), 73 (https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi6030073).
Leitner, M. & M. Helbich (eds.) (2015) Innovative Crime Modeling and Mapping. Special Issue of Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 42 (2), 95-209 (https://doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2015.1010308).
Leitner, M. (ed.) (2013) Crime Modeling and Mapping Using Geospatial Technologies. Springer: Heidelberg, 446 pages.
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