In this lecture I will review the many roles that GIS has in crime analysis. The use of GIS by police forces has increased considerably over the past 20 years--most larger Departments would have, at the very least, an analyst performing GIS analyses (e.g., the Edmonton Police Service, the Ottawa Police Service)

A useful (PDF) document on crime mapping, produced by the US Department of Justice, can be found here. A presentation on geographic profiling and serial robberies (a note on commuters and marauders). The relation between Situational Crime Prevention Theory and Environmental Criminology.

An informative document on hot spots -- provides a comprehensive review of why hot spots develop, and how to analyze, map them. (On the NIJ's web site look for the document entitled Mapping Crime: Understanding Hot Spots.) The Penn State GeoSpatial video on serving and protecting.

References:

Brantingham, P.J. and P.L. Brantingham (1981) Environmental criminology, Beverly Hills, Sage Publications.

Brantingham, P.J. and P.L. Brantingham (1984) Patterns in crime, New York, Macmillan.

Brantingham, P.J. and P.L. Brantingham (1991) Environmental criminology 2nd ed., Beverly Hills, Sage Publications.

Rossmo, D. K. (2000) Geographic profiling, Boca Raton, Fl., CRC Press.

• Crime Mapping and Analysis
• National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
• City of Kissimmee Crime Maps (Google)
• Environmental Criminology Research Inc.
• Institute for Canadian Urban Research Studies (SFU)
• International Association of Crime Analysts
• A note on routine activity theory (a listing of many of the theories in Criminology)
• Statistics Canada -- An analysis of crime in Winnipeg
• Using GIS to Map Crime Victim Services
• Maps of greed, envy, sloth, etc.