Geography of crime

From the 1980s to the early 1990s it was a rich era of criminal geography, criminal geography (Evans and Herbert 1989, The Urban of Urban Crime (Herbert 1982)), crime, police, Evans (1992) Set the agenda for criminal geography research. Perhaps surprisingly, books on crime geography have not been published. Journal of Criminal Geography. This may reflect that studies on criminal areas rarely occupy the central stage of geographic research (Fyfe 1991, quoted at police and police station; Herbert 1976, crime reference mapping )

This is a classic introduction to sub-disciplines written when criminal investigation was an important part of social geography. It provides an important overview of the geographical location of the crime using managementism and Marxist viewpoints beyond the critical interpretation mapping. The latter can gain insight into the meaning of crime and the social impact of these competitions.

The meanings of "place", "space" and "environment" are the framework for the interaction between criminal science and human geography, as well as the development of criminal science or "geography" since the 1970s I will build it. Crime geography has descriptive and scientific analysis functions. Usage in geography is increasing when evaluating the impact of social control systems on existing crime patterns. The second contemporary approach refers to a so-called geographic analysis that studies the movement of criminals and the process of locating their residence. Spatial data analysis through geographic information systems (hereinafter referred to as GIS) has become increasingly popular in so-called crime mapping and crime analysis in modern police organizations and its use is unlimited.