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Crime Mapping and the Crimestat Program
Author(s) -
Levine Ned
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
geographical analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.773
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1538-4632
pISSN - 0016-7363
DOI - 10.1111/j.0016-7363.2005.00673.x
Subject(s) - crime analysis , metropolitan area , documentation , geospatial analysis , geography , computer science , point (geometry) , geographic information system , cartography , operations research , mathematics , archaeology , criminology , sociology , programming language , geometry
CrimeStat is a spatial statistics program used in crime mapping. The program inputs incident or point locations and outputs statistics that can be displayed graphically in a geographic information systems (GIS) program. Among the routines are those for summary spatial description, hot spot analysis, interpolation, space–time analysis, and journey‐to‐crime modeling. Version 3.0 has a crime travel demand module for analyzing travel patterns over a metropolitan area. The program and documentation are distributed by the National Institute of Justice.