NCJ Number
178051
Editor(s)
N G La Vigne,
J Wartell
Date Published
1998
Length
144 pages
Annotation
Police practitioners in the field offer 15 real-life examples of successful applications of crime mapping, which involves the collection and analysis of data that show geographic distributions of crime.
Abstract
The case studies were selected from a pool of 38 submissions from 30 agencies that responded to a call for papers on "successful" crime mapping case studies. A "successful" case study was defined as the use of mapping to assist in a problem-solving, prevention, or enforcement effort that met its stated goal; an improved police process (e.g., investigation, problem identification, staffing allocation); or the identification, apprehension, or prosecution of suspects. Papers were chosen not only because they met "success" criteria, but also to represent a variety of crime and disorder problems, geographic locations, and agency size and type. The volume is organized in three sections: those cases that supported a problem-solving or community policing effort, those that helped improve law enforcement or criminal justice operations, and those that led to the apprehension or conviction of an offender or offenders.