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Risk Terrain Modeling (Criminology)

Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM) represents crime risk as a function of the environment: it identifies the features of a landscape — bars, bus stops, vacant lots, pawn shops, schools — that attract or generate crime, maps each one's spatial influence as a separate risk layer, and combines those layers onto a raster of place to produce a relative risk surface. Introduced by Joel Caplan and Leslie Kennedy around 2011, RTM 'brokers' environmental criminology theory and GIS methods so that crime forecasting rests on the qualities of places rather than on the history of crime alone.

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Risk Terrain Modeling of Crime Risk Factors
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / criminology
  • Caplan, J. M., Kennedy, L. W., & Miller, J. (2011). Risk terrain modeling: Brokering criminological theory and GIS methods for crime forecasting. Justice Quarterly, 28(2), 360–381. · DOI 10.1080/07418825.2010.486037
  • Caplan, J. M., & Kennedy, L. W. (2016). Risk Terrain Modeling: Crime Prediction and Risk Reduction. University of California Press. · ISBN 9780520282933
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See alsoHot Spot Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyKernel Density Crime Mappingmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyNear-Repeat Analysismachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyRoutine Activity Theorymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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