As any police officer who has ever walked a beat or worked a crime scene knows, the street
has its hot spots, patterns, and rhythms: drug dealers work their markets, prostitutes stroll …

Geographic profiling is a criminal investigative technique that provides information on the
likely" base of operations" of offenders suspected of committing serial crimes. The base of …

The Second Edition of the popular Fundamentals of Crime Mapping: Principles and Practice
walks readers through the research, theories, and history of GIS in law enforcement. This …

Crime opportunities are neither uniformly nor randomly organized in space and time. As a
result, crime mappers can unlock these spatial patterns and strive for a better theoretical …

As we near the end of the 20th century, interest in crime places continues to grow. The
identification of crime hot spots (Sherman, Gartin, and Buerger 1989) was perhaps a …

Social scientists have had a long and enduring interest in the geography of crime and the
explanation of variation of crime at place. In this introductory chapter, we first describe the …

While the geography of crime has been a focal concern in criminology from the very start of
the discipline, the development and use of statistical methods specifically designed for …

Spatial patterning of crime has long been observed. Guerry (1833) noted conviction rate
differences between the departments of France early in the nineteenth century. Tobias …

Attempting to locate an unknown offender is an important function of the criminal
investigative process. Routine activity theory suggests that an interaction between victim and …

During the 1998 ASC Annual Meeting in Washington, DC Jacqueline Cohen and I (George
Tita) approached then-editor of JQC Michael Maltz about our idea for a special issue …