Crime Mapping and Geographic Profiling
Crime maps display data on offenses, including the type of crime, and the locations and times the offenses occurred. One application of crime mapping is geographic profiling, a technique that uses crime maps to identify geographic areas where serial offenders are likely to reside or frequent. Suspects may be "prioritized" depending on how close they live to a high-crime area. Geographic profiling has had varying degrees of success. As with all areas of criminal profiling, there are questions about accuracy, usefulness, and biases inherent in geographic profiling. Critics say that geographic factors should be combined with a number of other contributing situational and behavioral factors beyond simply a suspect’s location on a map.
For this Discussion, review the media piece "Crime Mapping." Consider whether or not the interrogation of the woman in the media piece was justified based on the information presented from the crime mapping.
- Video:Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2011). Technological solutions and 21st-century crime: Crime mapping.Baltimore, MD: Author.
Post by Day 4 your position on whether or not the interrogation of the woman in the media piece was justified based on the information presented from the crime mapping. Justify your response with references to the literature and Learning Resources.
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Readings
- Course Text:Taylor, R. W., Fritsch, E. J., & Liederbach, J. (2015). Digital crime and digital terrorism.(3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.
- Chapter 13, "Digital Forensics"
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Article:Alison, L., Goodwill, A., Almond, L., van den
Heuvel, C., & Winter, J. (2010). Pragmatic solutions to
offender profiling and behavioural investigative advice.
Legal and Criminological Psychology, 15, 115–132.
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Article:Bichler, G., & Balchak, S. (2007). Address
matching bias: Ignorance is not bliss.
Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies &
Management, 30(1), 32–60.
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Article:Chainey, S., Tompson, L., & Uhlig, S. (2008).
The utility of hotspot mapping for predicting spatial patterns of
crime.
Security Journal, 21(1–2), 4–28.
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Article:Rogers, D. (2006). Map quest.
Law Enforcement Technology, 33(1), 60–64, 67–69.
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Article:Wallace, A. (2009). Mapping city crime and the new
aesthetic of danger.
Journal of Visual Culture, 8(1), 5–24.
Media
- Video:Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2011). Technological solutions and 21st-century crime: Crime mapping.Baltimore, MD: Author.
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