Crime Mapping
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.
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Sources
- Boba Santos, R. (2017). Crime Analysis with Crime Mapping (4th ed.). SAGE Publications. ISBN: 9781506331034
- Chainey, S., & Ratcliffe, J. (2005). GIS and Crime Mapping. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN: 9780470860991
How to cite this page
ScholarGate. (2026, June 22). Crime Mapping and Geographic Analysis of Crime. ScholarGate. https://scholargate.app/en/criminology/crime-mapping-method
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