Crime map

Crime map depicting homicides in Washington, DC

The term crime mapping (Engl. Crime mapping ) referred to in the criminology the compilation, presentation and analysis of crime patterns. The product of crime mapping is the crime map . The decisive factor here is the interaction between experts and systems from criminology and information technology .

technology

Geographic information systems are used to create crime maps . It must be taken into account here that geographic information systems do not carry out crime mapping, but are merely an important aid in crime mapping.

Application examples

It is conceivable, for example, to link crime scenes and perpetrators on a city map or map using geographical information and spatial-temporal coordinates. It is also possible to seamlessly show when and where a call was made and whether a certain mobile phone was activated in terms of time and location. Mapping can also be used to assign crime probabilities on a small scale. Model projects to such "Before agendas policing" ( English "Predictive Policing" ) are currently being conducted in major German cities. The topic was also prominently dealt with at the 18th European Police Congress.

literature

Derek J. Paulsen, Matthew B. Robinson: Crime Mapping and Spatial Aspects of Crime . 2nd Edition. Allyn & Bacon, Upper Saddle River, NJ 2009, ISBN 978-0-205-60945-1 .
Gregor Hadamitzky: Crime Mapping - Digital crime mapping in times of the risk society. Verlag für Policewissenschaft, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-86676-413-2 .
Peter K. Manning: The Technology of Policing: Crime Mapping, Information Technology, and the Rationality of Crime Control. NYU Press, New York 2008, ISBN 9780814757246 .

Web links

Lucian Haas: The digital commissioner. In: Berliner Zeitung . July 24, 2007, accessed September 4, 2015 .
Eric Töpfer: data, maps, situation pictures. 2008, Telepolis.
awy: Focal points of crime in Zurich : «Crime Mapping» - A map shows the distribution of delinquency . October 2009, NZZ Online.
Günter Okon, Ralf Weinreich: Presentation of the crime situation using GIS ( memento from January 22, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ). Police headquarters in Munich.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Maps of Evil , spiegel.de, 2011.
^ Predictive Policing . In: Jens Fromm, Mike Weber (eds.): ÖFIT trend show: Public information technology in the digitized society. Competence Center Public IT, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-9816025-2-4 .

[spiegel-1] Maps of Evil , spiegel.de, 2011.

[Predictive-2] Predictive Policing . In: Jens Fromm, Mike Weber (eds.): ÖFIT trend show: Public information technology in the digitized society. Competence Center Public IT, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-9816025-2-4 .