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GIS&T and Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement
Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge, Vol.2022(Q1)
University Consortium for Geographic Information Science
01/01/2022
Abstract
Linking crime and place has been the objective of crime mapping since the early nineteenth century. Contemporary scholars have since investigated spatio-temporal crime patterns to explain why crime concentrates in certain places during certain times. Collectively, this body of research has identified various environmental and situational factors that contribute to the formation of crime hot spots and spawned widespread crime prevention and reduction strategies commonly referred to as place-based policing. Environmental criminology guides the bulk of this crime-and-place research and provides a means for interpreting place and crime. The chapter details theories behind place-based policing, examples of place-based policing strategies that leverage geographic information science and its associated technologies (GIS&T), and relevant data visualization tools used by law enforcement to implement place-based strategies to address crime.
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- Title
- GIS&T and Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement
- Publication Details
- Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge, Vol.2022(Q1)
- Resource Type
- Website
- Publisher
- University Consortium for Geographic Information Science
- Format
- link
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2023 by UCGIS
- Identifiers
- 99380178351506600
- Academic Unit
- Hal Marcus College of Science and Engineering ; Earth and Environmental Sciences
- Language
- English