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Assignment:
1. Utilizing at least ONE of the theories you have learned so far, discuss how can crime mapping analysis can help to prevent crime or decrease the occurrence of crime within a neighborhood or specific setting (e.g., school or college)? This is your opportunity to show how theories of crime can also be useful in how we apply them to understanding crime maps.
a. First you will describe a real or fictional setting.
b. Secondly, define and explain your theory of choice. NOTE: Micro and macro are not themselves theories of crime, but broader umbrella categories that include the theories. You are being asked to choose a theory from any of the chapter readings. Or choose two theories if you would like to make a comparison. For example: rational choice, social disorganzition, routine activities, crime pattern theory, etc.
c. Finally, discuss the application of your theory to crime mapping and how it can aide different practitioners, who may use these maps, in understanding crime in your setting and/or be applied to prevention strategies.
2. Researchers suggest that instead of reducing crime, crime-intervention methods simply displace it.
a. Define the concept of crime displacement within environmental criminology.
b. Discuss the 5 types of displacement.
c. How does the use of crime mapping analysis aid in seeing displacement?
3. In your introduction to crime mapping you read about the 3 broad methods of analysis used by law enforcement: crime analysis, criminal intelligence analysis and investigative analysis.
1. Define and provide an example for each of the 3 analyses.
2. Discuss how these methods of analysis differ.
3. Think about the audience for each type of analysis and how the audience impacts the type of analysis used.
2. In your reading about crime mapping and analysis data you learned about data sharing issues.
a. Discuss at least TWO areas of concern in regards to crime mapping data sharing issues.
b. Then think about and discuss why access to data (for example: sex offender data) by citizens and community groups could be misused.
c. On the flipside, how could the utilization of crime mapping data contribute to a better understanding of criminal activity and behavior Saved within communities?
1. Describe GIS in your own words. Describe crime mapping in your own words.
How has the history of crime mapping changed over the years? What are some of the key aspects that have made crime mapping more accurate over the years?