Purpose Based on the theoretical viewpoints of criminal geography and environmental
criminology, this research uses spatial multi-criteria decision-making methods. In the …

Lanzhou's rapid development has raised new security challenges, and improving public
safety in areas under the jurisdiction of police stations is an effective way to address the …

The application of GIS in the public security industry is generally called “Police Geographic
Information System (PGIS)” in Mainland China. Although China's PGIS play important roles …

Policing strategy of crime prevention is one of the important topics in crime geography. This
paper systematically reviews the development and progress of policing strategy from three …

This study aims to investigate the relationship between socio-economic factors and crime,
and to understand the underlying criteria of new police station locations decisions. Factor …

As essential apparatus in crime analysis, crime mapping and Geographical Information
Systems (GIS) are being progressively more accepted by police agencies. Development in …

The term crime analysis refers to a concept and to a discipline practiced in the policing
community. It includes analysis of more than just a crime, which is why some authors refer to …

Crime is a long plagued issue of human society. Especially, with the expansion of cities and
population aggregation in recent years, crime problems have become a great challenge in …

A link between human geography and criminology has been established as a result of the
development of strong parallel that has existed in science for decades, similar to how …

Despite the common belief that police presence reduces crime, there is mixed evidence of
such causal effects in major Latin America cities. In this work we identify the casual …