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This website is preserved as an Archive for the NSF-funded
SPACE program (2003-2007). Current resources in support of
Spatially Integrated Social Science
are now available at the following:

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www.spatial.ucsb.edu

www.gispopsci.org

www.teachspatial.org

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SPACE Discipline Resources

Disciplines >> Criminology

Criminology

Workshop Participant Contributions

• Susan Pulsipher, Methodist College
• Claude Barnes and Laurie Garo, North Carolina A&T State University and University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Course Syllabi

• Applied Data Analysis in Criminal Justice
• GIS Applications in Law Enforcement
• Spatial Analysis, Interactive Databases, Geographic Information Systems and Social Science Research
• GIS for the Social Sciences
• GIS for Criminal Justice

CSISS Classics

• Charles Booth: Mapping London's Poverty, 1885-1903
• Alice Coleman: Design Disadvantagement, 1985
• Henry Mayhew: London Labour and the London Poor, 1861
• Clifford R. Shaw and Henry D. McKay: The Social Disorganization Theory

Publications

Goldsmith, V., McGuire, P.G., Mollenkopf, J.B., and Ross, T.A. 1999. Analyzing crime Patterns: frontiers of practice. Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA

Harries, K. 1999. Mapping Crime: principle and practice. US Department of Justice. This book can be downloaded in full at http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/178919.pdf.

Hirschfield, A. and Bowers, K. [Eds.]. 2001. Mapping and analyzing crime data: lessons from research and practice. Taylor and Francis, London, UK.

Links

• Crime Mapping - Article about how crime mapping and analysis has been helping to reduce crime. Includes links to related resources.
• Crime Prevention Analysis Lab (CPAL) - California State University, San Bernardino research center in environmental criminology. Describes methodologies, data analysis and crime mapping projects, research areas, and affiliations; also provides related links and event calendar.
• Introducing Space in a Non-Computational Context -
• Spatial Analysis, Interactive Databases, Geographic Information Systems and Social Science Research -
• Technology in the Criminal Justice System - Course examines the role of GIS in the criminal justice system and in particular its use in police administration. Features overview, course outline and readings. Ronal W. Serpas, Loyola University.
• The National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) - Preserves and distributes computerized crime and justice data from Federal agencies, state agencies, and investigator initiated research projects to users for secondary statistical analysis.

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