AJ 010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Crime Mapping, Street Prostitution, Binge Drinking

• School: Pasadena City College
• Department: Administration of Justice
• Course: AJ 010
• Professor: gallon

Document Summary

Crime events, offenders and victims are not evenly distributed in the community. For many offences the riskiest" places is the home: In 2009, 67. 3% of sexual assaults occurred in residential settings. 65. 1% of murders occur in residential settings (compared to 20. 7% committed in a community location) Within cities / towns, some areas present greater risk: E. g. some cities, for example assaults, cluster around transport nodes (e. g. railway stations) Break and enter offences are largely clustered in residential areas (but not all residential areas are equal in terms of risk) Crime mapping is a key component of crime analysis policing strategy. Help law enforcement management make better decisions, target resources, and formulate strategies, as well as for tactical analysis (e. g. crime forecasting, geographical profiling) For a research and policy perspective, crime mapping used to: Evaluate crime prevention or crime reduction programs. Spatial analysis of crime highlights crime prone places". Hotspot maps" show the spatial distribution of reported crime.