GIS Tutorial for Crime Analysis

by Wilpen L. Gorr, Kristen S. Kurland, Zan M. Dodson

Overview

GIS Tutorial for Crime Analysis, second edition, is a workbook for crime analysts and students of criminology. The book presents state-of-the-art methods that can be incorporated into any police department’s standard practices. This second edition builds upon the first edition by updating tutorials, adding a new chapter on building and evaluating models using ModelBuilder and ArcGIS’s hot spot analysis tools, and adding a capstone project on hot spot modeling.

In contrast to GIS workbooks that teach skills for one-time projects, this book has users build and use a crime mapping and analysis system to meet all spatial information needs of a police department. The book combines introductions to GIS and crime analysis methods and step-by-step tutorial exercises with independent assignments to teach key GIS skills, including data preparation and updating, map template building, map queries and analysis, automation of map production, and modeling skills. The book also includes tutorial data. Instructor resources are available upon request.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781589485167
Publisher:	Esri Press
Publication date:	05/23/2018
Series:	GIS Tutorials
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	364
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Wilpen L. Gorr is emeritus professor of public policy and management information systems at the School of Public Policy and Management, H. John Heinz III College, Carnegie Mellon University, where he taught and researched GIS applications. He was also chairman of the school’s Master of Science in Public Policy and Management program and editor of the International Journal of Forecasting.

Kristen S. Kurland is a Teaching Professor of Architecture, Information Systems, and Public Policy at the H. John Heinz III College and School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University, where she teaches GIS, building information modeling, computer-aided design, 3D visualization, infrastructure management, and enterprise data analytics.

Zan M. Dodson is a postdoctoral associate in the Public Health Dynamics Laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh and adjunct faculty at the H. John Heinz III College, Carnegie Mellon University, where he teaches GIS, spatiotemporal modeling, spatial optimization, and remote sensing.

Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments Learning pathways
Part 1: Working with Crime Maps --Chapter 1: Introduction to crime mapping and analysis

--Chapter 2: Introduction to Crime Mapping Using ArcGIS
--Chapter 3: Using Crime Maps
--Chapter 4: Designing and Building Crime Maps

Part 2: Conducting Crime Analysis
--Chapter 5: Querying Crime Maps
--Chapter 6: Building Crime Map Animations
--Chapter 7: Conducting Hot Spot Analysis

Part 3: Building a Crime Mapping and Analysis System
--Chapter 8: Assembling Jurisdiction Maps
--Chapter 9: Preparing Incident Data for Mapping
--Chapter 10: Automating Crime Maps Appendix A Tools and buttons Appendix B Task index Appendix C Handling data and homework files Appendix D Data source credits Appendix E Data license agreement Appendix F Installing the data and software