Crime Mapping: Benefits and Challenges

Crime Mapping: Benefits and Challenges

Crime Mapping: Benefits and Challenges

Crime mapping can be used to analyze and predict the most likely locations where future crimes will occur so that law enforcement can allocate resources and prevention activities accordingly. The information provided by crime mapping also can be used to identify and apprehend likely suspects based on geographic crime data. While there are many crime prevention and law enforcement advantages to using crime mapping, there also have been challenges. Law enforcement agencies must evaluate the benefits and the challenges to using this technology and determine whether or not to utilize crime mapping.

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For this assignment, consider how law enforcement may utilize data from crime mapping to prevent and/or address crime. Then think about the challenges and benefits of crime mapping and how it might promote social change.

The Assignment (2–3 pages)

• Explain at least three ways in which law enforcement may utilize data from crime mapping to prevent and/or address crime.
• Explain any challenges related to the use of this data to prevent or address crime.
• Explain how crime mapping as a technological solution might benefit society and promote social change.

Support your Application Assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. You are to provide a reference list for all resources, including those in the Learning Resources for this course.

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”
• 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.
  Retrieved from the Walden Library using the Academic Search Complete database.
• 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.
  Retrieved from the Walden Library using the ProQuest Central database.
• 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.
  Retrieved from the Walden Library using the ProQuest Central database.
• Article: Rogers, D. (2006). Map quest. Law Enforcement Technology, 33(1), 60–64, 67–69.
  Retrieved from the Walden Library using the ProQuest Central database.
• Article: Wallace, A. (2009). Mapping city crime and the new aesthetic of danger. Journal of Visual Culture, 8(1), 5–24.
  Retrieved from the Walden Library using the SAGE Journals Online database.