Canadian Policing Research Catalogue

Location

Canadian Policing Research

Resource

e-Books

Alternate Title

Analyse des crimes : recherche et développement.

Authors

• Song, Justin, author.
• Spicer, Valerie, author.
• Frank, Richard, author.
• Park, Andrew, author.
• Brantingham, Patricia L., author.
• Canada. Public Safety Canada, issuing body.
• Simon Fraser University.
• Thompson Rivers University.

Publishers

• [Ottawa] : [Public Safety Canada], 2015.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographic references.

Description

1 online resource (1 page) : illustrations

Note

Research outline presented at the Summit on the Economics of Policing and Community Safety held in Ottawa, 2-4 March, 2015.
Issued also in French under the title: Analyse des crimes : recherche et développement.
Author(s) affiliated with: Simon Fraser University and Thompson Rivers University.

Summary

"The following presents a new approach for analyzing crime patterns that merges the concepts of crime attractors and the pull of certain locations on offender movement. This directionality, inherent to city infrastructure, underlies the decision processes of offenders when choosing movement paths towards attractors."

Subject

• Crime analysis.
• Digital mapping.
• Crime mapping.
• Police - Congresses.
• Poster presentations.
• ICURS.

Conference Meeting

Summit on the Economics of Policing and Community Safety (2015 : Ottawa, Ont.)