Geographic information systems and crime analysis
"This book features a diverse array of GIS applications in crime analysis, from general issues such as GIS as a communication process and inter-jurisdictional data sharing to specific applications in tracking serial killers and predicting juvenile violence. The book showcases a broad range of m...
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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Hershey, Pa. :
IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA),
c2005.
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| Online Access: | View fulltext via EzAccess |
| Summary: | "This book features a diverse array of GIS applications in crime analysis, from general issues such as GIS as a communication process and inter-jurisdictional data sharing to specific applications in tracking serial killers and predicting juvenile violence. The book showcases a broad range of methods and techniques from typical GIS tasks such as geocoding and hotspot analysis to advanced technologies such as geographic profiling, agent-based modeling and web GIS. Contributors range from university professors, criminologists in research institutes to police chiefs, GIS analysts in police departments and consultants in criminal justice"--Provided by publisher. |
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| Physical Description: | electronic texts (xii, 345 p. : ill., maps) : digital files. Also available in print. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781591404552 (PDF) 159140455X (ebook) |
| Access: | Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers. |