Research Summary



Project: Use and Integration of Geographic Information Systems and Spatial Analysis Techniques for Identifying Patterns of Urban Crime
Support: CURA (6/1/00 - 6/30/01)
Principal Investigator: A.T. Murray

Summary

Geographic information associated with crime in Lima and Columbus (Ohio) was acquired and integrated in a GIS environment. On the modeling side, various spatial cluster techniques were developed and applied to account for spatial relationships in the context of hot spot detection. Analysis in Lima has spanned crime from 1999 to present. This project fostered collaboration with Lima Police Department and Columbus Police Department. As a result, the work informed policy and decision making in Lima PD activities, particularly with respect to community policing.

Student Collaborators

Tony Grubesic  -Ph.D., Department of Geography, OSU, 2001

Collaborators

William Ackerman (OSU)

Produced Publications

  1. Murray, A.T. (2000). “Spatially lagged choropleth display.” Proceedings of 9th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling, edited by P. Forer, A. Yeh and J. He, 1a40-49 (Beijing: International Geographical Union).
  2. Murray, A.T. (2002). “Geographic space and choropleth display.” In Advances in GIS Research III: Towards Holistic Spatial Data Handling, edited by P. Forer, A. Yeh and H. Jianbang (Springer-Verlag), to appear.
  3. Murray, A.T.  and T. Grubesic (2002). “Identifying non-hierarchical spatial clusters.” International Journal of Industrial Engineering 9, 86-95.
  4. Ackerman, W.V. and A.T. Murray (2004). "Assessing spatial patterns of crime in Lima, Ohio." Cities 21, 423-437.
  5. Shyy, T.-K., R.J. Stimson, J. Western, A.T. Murray and L. Mazerolle (2004). “Web GIS for mapping community crime rates: approaches and challenges.” In Geographic Information Systems and Crime Analysis, Chapter 14, edited by Fahui Wang (IRM Press: Hershey, PA).

Presentations

  1. A.T. Murray. “Exploring crime patterns using quantitative methods.” 96th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, April 4-8, 2000.
  2. A. Murray and W. Ackerman. “Assessing spatial patterns of crime in smaller communities.” 4th Annual International Crime Mapping Research Conference, San Diego, California, USA, December 9-12, 2000.
  3. A.T. Murray. “Spatial pattern detection and scale.” Spatial Statistics and Spatial Econometrics Conference (sponsored by the Applied Econometrics Association and the Western Regional Science Association), Palm Springs, California, USA, February 24-28, 2001.
  4. T.H. Grubesic and A.T. Murray. “Detecting hot-spots using cluster analysis and GIS.” 5th Annual International Crime Mapping Research Conference, Dallas, Texas, USA, November 30 - December 4, 2001.
  5. A.T. Murray and T.H. Grubesic. “Spatial models for crime hot spot detection.” 98th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, California, USA, March 19-23, 2002.
  6. W.V. Ackerman and A.T. Murray. “Assessing spatial patterns of crime in Lima, Ohio.” Ohio Criminal Justice Research Conference, Columbus, Ohio, USA, October 15, 2002.
  7. A.T. Murray and T.H. Grubesic. “Assessing the reliability of crime analysis using imperfect spatial information.” The Sixth International Crime Mapping Research Conference (National Institute of Justice, Mapping and Analysis for Public Safety program), Denver, Colorado, USA, December 8-11, 2002.
  8. T.H. Grubesic and A.T. Murray. “Imperfect spatial information: implications for crime mapping and analysis.” The Sixth International Crime Mapping Research Conference (National Institute of Justice, Mapping and Analysis for Public Safety program), Denver, Colorado, USA, December 8-11, 2002.
  9. W.V. Ackerman and A.T. Murray. “Assessing spatial patterns of crime in Lima, Ohio.” 99th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, March 4-8, 2003.
  10. W.V. Ackerman and A.T. Murray. “A vector analysis of violent crime in Lima, Ohio.” Centennial Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, March 14-19, 2004.

Related Publications

  1. Murray, A.T. and T. Shyy (2000). “Integrating attribute and space characteristics in choropleth display and spatial data mining.” International Journal of Geographical Information Science 14, 649-667.
  2. Murray, A.T., I. McGuffog, J.S. Western and P. Mullins (2001). “Exploratory spatial data analysis techniques for examining urban crime.” British Journal of Criminology 41, 309-329.


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