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<b>List of contributors.</b> <p><b>Preface.</b></p> <p><b>Part I Developing crime mapping.</b></p> <p><b>1 Developing geographical information systems and crime mapping tools in New Zealand</b> (Andy Gilmour and Jill Barclay).</p> <p>1.1 The starting point.</p> <p>1.2 Developing a web-based GIS solution for New Zealand Police.</p> <p>1.3 Building on the map-based analytical policing system (MAPS).</p> <p><b>2 An analytical technique for addressing geographical referencing difficulties and monitoring crimes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil  (</b>Ana Paula Mendes de Miranda and Marcus Ferreira).</p> <p>2.1 Introduction – developments in crime analysis in Rio de Janeiro.</p> <p>2.2 Analysis by space–time monitoring cells.</p> <p>2.3 Identifying crime patterns using paper maps.</p> <p>2.4 Identifying crime patterns in Rio de Janeiro using GIS and digital cartographic base maps.</p> <p>2.5 Crime analyses on bus routes in Rio de Janeiro.</p> <p>2.6 Conclusions.</p> <p>2.7 References.</p> <p><b>3 Methods for implementing crime mapping within a large law enforcement agency: experiences from Victoria, Australia (</b>Timothy Mashford).</p> <p>3.1 Introduction.</p> <p>3.2 A phased plan for development and delivery.</p> <p>3.3 Progress to date.</p> <p>3.4 Crime mapping projects – some examples.</p> <p>3.5 Conclusions.</p> <p>3.6 Reference.</p> <p><b>4 Automating briefings for police officers (</b>Tom Casady).</p> <p>4.1 Introduction.</p> <p>4.2 Automating crime mapping outputs in Lincoln Police Department.</p> <p>4.3 Developing the automation of tasks in Lincoln.</p> <p>4.4 Automating crime mapping in your agency.</p> <p><b>Part II Geographical investigative analysis.</b></p> <p><b>5 Geographic profiling analysis: principles, methods and applications (</b>D. Kim Rossmo and Lorie Velarde).</p> <p>5.1 Introduction.</p> <p>5.2 The theoretical principles behind geographic profiling.</p> <p>5.3 Geographic profiling methodology.</p> <p>5.4 Applying geographic profiling to ‘volume’ crime: the Irvine Chair burglaries.</p> <p>5.5 Measuring the effects of geographic profiling in Irvine.</p> <p>5.6 References.</p> <p><b>6 Geographic profiling in an operational setting: the challenges and practical considerations, with reference to a series of sexual assaults in Bath, England (</b>Clare Daniell).</p> <p>6.1 Introduction.</p> <p>6.2 Applying geographic profiling to a series of indecent assaults in Bath, England.</p> <p>6.3 Offender geography.</p> <p>6.4 Operational versus academic geographic profiling.</p> <p>6.5 Conclusions.</p> <p>6.6 References.</p> <p><b>7 The Hammer Gang: an exercise in the spatial analysis of an armed robbery series using the probability grid method (</b>Chris Overall and Gregory Day).</p> <p>7.1 Introduction.</p> <p>7.2 Background.</p> <p>7.3 Mapping the data and getting the picture.</p> <p>7.4 Predicting the next offence location.</p> <p>7.5 Results.</p> <p>7.6 Issues in application of the probability grid method.</p> <p>7.7 Conclusions.<br /> <br /> 7.8 Acknowledgements.</p> <p>7.9 References.</p> <p><b>8 ‘Rolling the Dice’: the arrest of Roosevelt Erving in Lincoln, Nebraska (</b>Tom Casady).</p> <p>8.1 Introduction.</p> <p>8.2 Erving’s series of bank robberies.</p> <p>8.3 Analysing Erving’s series.</p> <p>8.4 Project ‘Rolling the Dice’.</p> <p>8.5 The crucial role of geographical analysis.</p> <p><b>Part III Neighbourhood analysis.</b></p> <p><b>9 The strategic allocation of resources to effectively implement Neighbourhood Policing and the Community Safety Plan (</b>Alice O’Neill).</p> <p>9.1 Introduction.</p> <p>9.2 Alternative resource allocation model.</p> <p>9.3 What were the results, outcome and issues?</p> <p>9.4 The future.</p> <p>9.5 Reference.</p> <p><b>10 Priority neighbourhoods and the Vulnerable Localities Index in Wigan – a strategic partnership approach to crime reduction (</b>Ian Bullen).</p> <p>10.1 Introduction.</p> <p>10.2 An alternative Vulnerable Localities Index.</p> <p>10.3 Vulnerable localities in Wigan.</p> <p>10.4 Using the Vulnerable Localities Index to help understand offending patterns.</p> <p>10.5 Developing the Vulnerable Localities Index to support urban regeneration and Neighbourhood Policing.</p> <p>10.6 Acknowledgement.</p> <p>10.7 References.</p> <p><b>11 Reducing re-offending in local communities: geographical information system based strategic analysis of Greater Manchester’s offenders (</b>David Ottiwell).</p> <p>11.1 Context and introduction.</p> <p>11.2 Implementation, testing and analysis.</p> <p>11.3 Results, outcomes and issues.<br /> <br /> 11.4 References.</p> <p><b>Part IV Integrating visual audits and survey data into crime mapping.</b></p> <p><b>12 Community Safety Mapping Online System: mapping reassurance using survey data (</b>Steven Rose).</p> <p>12.1 Introduction.</p> <p>12.2 Community Safety Mapping Online System (COSMOS).</p> <p>12.3 Measuring reassurance.</p> <p>12.4 Environmental visual audit (EVA).</p> <p>12.5 Practical use of results.</p> <p>12.6 Evaluation and next steps.</p> <p>12.7 References.</p> <p><b>13 Mapping the fear of crime – a micro-approach in Merton, London (</b>Chris Williams).</p> <p>13.1 Introduction.</p> <p>13.2 Process.</p> <p>13.3 Methodology.</p> <p>13.4 Results.</p> <p>13.5 Methodological applications and considerations.</p> <p>13.6 References.</p> <p><b>14 NightVision – visual auditing of night-time economy related incidents in Bath and North-East Somerset (</b>Jon Poole).</p> <p>14.1 Introduction.</p> <p>14.2 Project design and implementation.</p> <p>14.3 Methodological considerations.</p> <p>14.4 Findings from the NightVision surveys.</p> <p>14.5 Generating action.</p> <p>14.6 Conclusions.</p> <p>14.7 Reference.</p> <p><b>Part V New techniques.</b></p> <p><b>15 The near-repeat burglary phenomenon (</b>Derek Johnson).</p> <p>15.1 Introduction.</p> <p>15.2 Near repeats in Bournemouth.</p> <p>15.3 A methodology for analysis and action.<br /> <br /> 15.4 Delivering a near-repeat intervention.</p> <p>15.5 The impact.</p> <p>15.6 Conclusions.</p> <p>15.7 References.</p> <p><b>16 Simulating crime to inform theory and practice (</b>Elizabeth Groff).</p> <p>16.1 Introduction.</p> <p>16.2 Agent-based modelling.</p> <p>16.3 Creating a theoretically based simulation model to test routine activity theory.</p> <p>16.4 Findings and significance of the research – comparing a simulated environment to the principles of routine activity theory.</p> <p>16.5 Comparing a simulated crime environment to reality.</p> <p>16.6 Implications for practice.</p> <p>16.7 References.</p> <p><b>17 A crime mapping technique for assessing vulnerable targets for terrorism in local communities (</b>Rachel Boba).</p> <p>17.1 Introduction.</p> <p>17.2 Assessing target vulnerabilities: two components.</p> <p>17.3 Assessing target vulnerabilities: a hypothetical case study.</p> <p>17.4 Considerations.</p> <p>17.5 References.</p> <p><b>18 Interactive Offender Profiling System (IOPS) (</b>David Canter and Donna Youngs).</p> <p>18.1 Introduction.</p> <p>18.2 An integrated operational system.</p> <p>18.3 The potential of the interactive offender profiling system.</p> <p>18.4 Acknowledgement.</p> <p>18.5 References.</p> <p><b>Index.</b></p>

<p>Spencer Chainey is the editor of Crime Mapping Case Studies: Practice and Research, published by Wiley. Lisa Tompson is the editor of Crime Mapping Case Studies: Practice and Research, published by Wiley.

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