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| List of contributors | |
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| Preface | |
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| Developing crime mapping | |
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| Developing geographical information systems and crime mapping tools in New Zealand | |
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| The starting point | |
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| Developing a web-based GIS solution for New Zealand Police | |
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| Building on the map-based analytical policing system (MAPS | |
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| An analytical technique for addressing geographical referencing difficulties and monitoring crimes in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
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| Introduction - developments in crime analysis in Rio de Janeiro | |
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| Analysis by space-time monitoring cells | |
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| Identifying crime patterns using paper maps | |
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| Identifying crime patterns in Rio de Janeiro using GIS and digital cartographic base maps | |
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| Crime analyses on bus routes in Rio de Janeiro | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| References | |
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| Methods for implementing crime mapping within a large law enforcement agency: experiences from Victoria, Australia | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A phased plan for development and delivery | |
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| Progress to date | |
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| Crime mapping projects - some examples | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Reference | |
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| Automating briefings for police officers | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Automating crime mapping outputs in Lincoln Police Department | |
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| Developing the automation of tasks in Lincoln | |
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| Automating crime mapping in your agency | |
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| Geographical investigative analysis | |
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| Geographic profiling analysis: principles, methods and applications | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The theoretical principles behind geographic profiling | |
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| Geographic profiling methodology | |
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| Applying geographic profiling to 'volume' crime: the Irvine Chair burglaries | |
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| Measuring the effects of geographic profiling in Irvine | |
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| References | |
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| Geographic profiling in an operational setting: the challenges and practical considerations, with reference to a series of sexual assaults in Bath, England | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Applying geographic profiling to a series of indecent assaults in Bath, England | |
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| Offender geography | |
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| Operational versus academic geographic profiling | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| References | |
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| The Hammer Gang: an exercise in the spatial analysis of an armed robbery series using the probability grid method | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Background | |
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| Mapping the data and getting the picture | |
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| Predicting the next offence location | |
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| Results | |
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| Issues in application of the probability grid method | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| References | |
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| 'Rolling the Dice': the arrest of Roosevelt Erving in Lincoln, Nebraska | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Erving's series of bank robberies | |
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| Analysing Erving's series | |
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| Project 'Rolling the Dice' | |
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| The crucial role of geographical analysis | |
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| Neighbourhood analysis | |
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| The strategic allocation of resources to effectively implement Neighbourhood Policing and the Community Safety Plan | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Alternative resource allocation model | |
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| What were the results, outcome and issues? | |
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| The future | |
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| Reference | |
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| Priority neighbourhoods and the Vulnerable Localities Index in Wigan - a strategic partnership approach to crime reduction | |
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| Introduction | |
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| An alternative Vulnerable Localities Index | |
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| Vulnera | |