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Mapping and Analysis for Public Safety

Tenth Crime Mapping Research Conference

Rescheduled for August 2009

Sheraton Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana

The 10th Crime Mapping Research Conference has been rescheduled to take place in August 2009 instead of this September 2008. For the 10th Crime Mapping Research Conference, NIJ will be selecting from presenters who submitted to the call for papers. We will also be putting out a second call for papers for new submissions and updates to those already submitted. NIJ remains very supportive of continuing on with the Crime Mapping Research Conference with plans to do so far into the future.

Geography & Public Safety Bulletin

The MAPS program at NIJ, together with the COPS office , publishes a quarterly bulletin on geography and public safety. Topics covered in the Bulletin include mapping, problem analysis, and other issues pertaining to the geography of crime. The Bulletin is geared towards practitioners in law enforcement and criminal justice agencies. Articles in the Bulletin are intended to inform the reader of topics current with regard to spatial analysis of crime, but also to push the reader to new levels. Subscribe to the Bulletin.

Volume I, Issue III — Home Foreclosures

Issue III of Geography and Public Safety examines how the nationwide home foreclosure crisis has affected crime, police practice, and public policy. Articles show that geographic information systems can assess how foreclosures influence crime trends and improve city cleanup of graffiti and blight. Additionally, the issue describes the tenets of the broken windows policing theory, and how this theory explains why police and public planners must react quickly, before crime has a chance to escalate.
Volume 1, Issue III - Fall 2008 (pdf, 20 pages)

9th Crime Mapping Research Conference

March 28 - March 31, 2007

About the conference

The Ninth Crime Mapping Research Conference focused on the use and development of methodologies for practitioners and researchers. Keynote speaker, Andrew Reamer of the Brookings Institute, discussed the use of Census data and other data sources for crime analysis and research. The Friday luncheon keynote speaker, George Rengert, looked back at the history of crime mapping. The conference also featured a plenary panel on "Optimizing the Data Generated by GPS tracking of Offenders", as well as numerous workshop and panel sessions.

Proceedings

Conference presentations and proceedings now available.

FacilityCop

FacilityCop is a version of SchoolCop, modified and adapted by Temple University, for use in the corrections environment. The program can be used to map, analyze, and keep records of incidents within a building environment, such as a prison. The program can also be used to generate tabular reports, graphs, and charts. FacilityCop is available as a free download. (Posted: 6/28/06)

Publication: Mapping Crime: Understanding Hot Spots

Much of crime mapping is devoted to detecting high-crime density areas known as hot spots. Hot spot analysis helps police identify high-crime areas, types of crime being committed, and the best way to respond. This Special Report discusses hot spot analysis techniques and software and identifies when to use them. Mapping Crime: Understanding Hot Spots presents various hot spot mapping and analysis techniques, software options and capabilities, and a theoretical discussion to frame hot spots within policing strategies and response. (Posted: 9/15/05)

CrimeStat III

CrimeStat III, the latest version of this spatial statistics program for the analysis of crime incident locations, is now available. New in version 3.0 is a module for crime travel demand modeling, widely used in transportation planning. It allows a crime analyst to model crime trips over a metropolitan area and to make reasonable guesses at the travel mode and likely routes taken. It can also be used to model possible interventions. (Posted: 5/2/05)

  • The software is available for free download from the NACJD (National Archive of Criminal Justice Data).
Date Entered: January 3, 2008