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| Crime Mapping× | Crime Concentration Index× | |
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| Field | Criminology | Criminology |
| Family | Process / pipeline | Process / pipeline |
| Year of origin≠ | 2005 | 1989 |
| Originator≠ | Rachel Boba Santos, Spencer Chainey & Jerry Ratcliffe (modern synthesis) | Lawrence Sherman, Patrick Gartin & Michael Buerger; David Weisburd |
| Type≠ | Geographic information analysis of crime locations | Descriptive concentration measure for crime across micro-places |
| Seminal source≠ | Boba Santos, R. (2017). Crime Analysis with Crime Mapping (4th ed.). SAGE Publications. ISBN: 9781506331034 | Sherman, L. W., Gartin, P. R., & Buerger, M. E. (1989). Hot spots of predatory crime: Routine activities and the criminology of place. Criminology, 27(1), 27–56. DOI ↗ |
| Aliases | Geographic Crime Analysis, Crime Cartography, GIS Crime Mapping, Spatial Crime Analysis | Crime Concentration at Place, Hot-Spot Concentration Measure, Cumulative Crime Concentration, Law of Crime Concentration |
| Related | 4 | 4 |
| Summary≠ | Crime mapping is the practice of geocoding crime incidents to their locations and using geographic information systems (GIS) to visualize and analyze where crime concentrates. It spans simple pin maps, area-based choropleth maps, and continuous density surfaces, and underpins the geographic side of modern crime analysis — from CompStat briefings to problem-oriented policing. | The crime concentration index quantifies how unevenly crime is distributed across micro-geographic places such as street segments or addresses. Building on Sherman, Gartin, and Buerger's 1989 discovery that a small fraction of addresses produces most calls for police service, and formalized in Weisburd's 2015 'law of crime concentration', it expresses the share of all crime accounted for by the most crime-prone places. |
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