Zastosowanie GIS w badaniach przestępczości
The application of GIS in crime research

Summary/Abstract: Nowadays geography can do much more in crime and delinquency research thanonly mapping. Since 70s of the 20th century various research methods have beendeveloped by scientists dealing with geography of crime. The computer tools, includingGIS software were the basis for that process. In the paper author presents followingmethods and research techniques: thematic maps (graphical representation of spatialdata, which enables to built geographical basic data models), hot spot analysis (pointingplaces with high crime concentration), spatial autocorrelation (spatial identification ofcrime concentration), spatial regression (analysis of crime and other accompanyingphenomena), ProMap – prospective mapping (prediction of the most probable placeswhere crimes might be committed), and geographical profiling (element of psychologicalprofiling thanks to which identification of places connected with criminals ispossible).

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