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All rights reserved. First edition 2012
e-ISBN 9781589485174
Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Names: Gorr, Wilpen L., author. | Kurland, Kristen Seamens, 1966- author. | Dodson, Zan M., author.
Title: GIS tutorial for crime analysis / Wilpen L. Gorr, Kristen S. Kurland, Zan M. Dodson.
Description: Redlands, California : Esri Press, [2018] | Earlier edition published: 2012.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017058415 | ISBN 9781589485167 (alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Crime analysis--Data processing. | Geographic information systems. | ArcGIS. | Digital mapping.
Classification: LCC HV7936.C88 G675 2018 | DDC 363.250285--dc23
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Contents
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Documentation
Preface
The second edition of GIS Tutorial for Crime Analysis teaches ArcGIS Desktop software for crime mapping and analysis in modern police organizations. have brief introductions to underlying GIS and crime analysis followed by extensive step-by-step tutorials.
Besides brief introductions and tutorials, the book has Your Turn assignments within chapters, longer assignments at the end of chapters, and a book project at the end of offers a capstone learning experience in which youll build and size a crime hot spot program for available police resources for predictive accuracy and fairness (equity) of the spatial distribution of crime prevention services. You can configure the project from relatively short and focused to long and comprehensive, depending on the data source used (provided with this book or obtained externally). From teaching experience, weve found that students feel confident about gainfully using GIS in their careers once they complete a GIS project.
A theme of the book is that youll need to learn how to build, maintain, and use a crime mapping and analysis system to meet the daily information needs of a police organization and its many user groups. Youll learn how to handle a constant flow of police reports from the field into the system; perform spatial processing of the data using GIS for use in producing outputs of the system; and automatically produce the maps and analyses routinely needed by field officers, investigators, police executives, and the public. Youll also learn how to do one-time (ad hoc) crime analyses for certain crime problems as they arise.
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