National Crime Mapping Conference 2010

Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science

National Crime Mapping Conference 2010

8th National Crime Mapping Conference 2010
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8th National Crime Mapping Conference

10 and 11 June, 2010

The National Crime Mapping Conference is designed to appeal to those working in policing, law enforcement, and crime reduction agencies, academia, and also technology companies interested in the benefits of crime mapping for supporting policing and crime reduction.

Comments from previous events: "Another excellent conference, this is really the only place where crime analysts from such a wide range of organisations come together"

"Very informative and excellent at teaching best practice to fellow practitioners; I'd recommend regular attendance"

"Excellent - all levels of expertise catered for"

"Inspired! It made me want to step outside my comfort zone of the work I usually do"

"It was a useful and informative event; the presentations I attended showcased innovative work from the academic and professional sectors, but kept this practical and useable for the largely 'practitioner' audience"

"Always go away with a feel good factor about the work that is going on in the crime mapping field"

Levels: G = General; B = Beginner; I = Intermediate; A = Advanced

FULL PROGRAMME

During our conference planning, the programme is subject to some minor changes.

THURSDAY 10 JUNE 2010

9.00-10.15

Registration, refreshments and exhibition

10.15-11.30

1st PLENARY (G)

Welcome: Spencer Chainey, Conference Chair

Public information provision: the evolution and impact of publishing crime maps
ACC Steve Mortimore, National Policing Improvement Agency and Chris Williams, Local Government Association
Exhibitors and Poster Showcase: a series of 60 second showcases from each exhibitor and poster presenter

11.30-11.55

Break and exhibition

12.00-13.00

PARALLEL SESSIONS 1

1A Publishing crime statistics using crime mapping (G)

The Met's crime mapping website maps.met.police.uk: experiences and lessons learnt. Trevor Adams, Metropolitan Police
Publishing neighbourhood hotspot maps for a low crime area: an approach using kernel density estimation and nearest neighbour analysis. Holly Farrow, Cath Blake, Buckinghamshire Community safety Partnership, and Spencer Chainey UCL Jill Dando Institute.

1B Spatial profiles (I)

Developing an evidence base for tracking risk and protective factors of community cohesion in the London Borough of Hillingdon. Neil Mackin, CACI and Pam Nash, LB Hillngdon
Spatial profiles of street crimes: exploring multidimensional data analysis to identify crime patterns in a context of social inequality. Circe Monteiro, Mauro Barros Filho, Carolina Puttini, and Antonio Roazzi. Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil.

Class 1C: The key spatial theories of crime (B)
Jerry Ratcliffe, Temple University, USA
Class 1D: Geographic profiling for serial crime investigations (G)
Laverty, ECRI, Canada
Class 1E: Spatial centrographic statistics and nearest neighbour measures (and an introduction to CrimeStat) (I)
Ned Levine, Ned Levine and Associates, USA

13.00-14.00

Lunch and exhibition

14.05-15.05

PARALLEL SESSIONS 2

2A Public perceptions and confidence (I) (REPEATED IN 5A)

What police activity influences public confidence? Results from London. Paul Richards, University College London Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
Towards crime perception maps: automatically extracting quantitative results from qualitative questionnaire responses. Jon Whittle, Will Simm, Marie Angela Ferrario, Baseerit Nasa and Jane Binner, Lancaster University

2B Mapping and analysing ASB (G)

A three year ASB analysis study in West Sussex: the findings and implications for resource planning. Michelle Peckham, West Sussex County Community Safety Partnership Analysis.

Project Progress: an enhanced ASB patrol strategy Peter Robins, Liam Merrick and Melissa Gregory, West Mercia Police.

Class 2C: Understanding hotspots (G)
Spencer Chainey, UCL Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science
Class 2D: A standards based approach to processing, querying and sharing crime data, analysis and maps (G)
Gary Randle, Cadcorp
Class 2E: Crime scenes and forensic science: the micro-geography of investigation (G)
Ruth Morgan, UCL Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime

15.05-15.35

Break and exhibition

15.40-16.40

PARALLEL SESSIONS 3

3A Automating the briefing function (G)

Internal crime mapping in the Met: trying to catch up with CSI. Carly Mellin, Metropolitan Police.
Harnessing the power of automated data (and letting analysts be analysts). Stephen Postlethwaite, Safer Hampshire Partnership

3B Mapping offenders (G)

GIS in offender management crime pattern analysis. Aidan Stephenson, West Berkshire Safer Communities Partnership
Suspect matching using spatial and contextual aspects. Rob van der Veer, Sentient, The Netherlands.

Class 3C: Identifying priority neighbourhoods using the Vulnerable Localities Index (I)
Spencer Chainey, UCL Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science
Class 3D: Geographically Weighted Regression analysis (A)
Martin Charlton, National University of Ireland
Class 3E: Journey to crime analysis using CrimeStat (A)
Ned Levine, Ned Levine and Associates, USA

16.40

Drinks reception and canapés

FRIDAY 11 JUNE 2010

9.15-9.45

Refreshments and exhibition

9.45-10.45

PARALLEL SESSIONS 4

4A Embedding geographical analysis into problem solving (G)

Operation Monica: tackling crime and ASB along bus routes in Bromley. Stuart Dean, Bromley Safer Transport

Mapping emerging communities in Warwickshire. Becki Brookes, Warwickshire Police.

4B Repeat and near repeat victimisation (I)

A comparison between repeats and non-repeat residential burglaries: what is significantly different? Lorena Montoya and Marianne Junger, University of Twente, The Netherlands.
A spatio-temporal analysis of near repeat victimisation in Japan. George Kikuchi, Mamoru Amemiya, Takahito Shimada, Tomonori Saito and Yutaka Harada, National Research Institute of Police Science, Japan.

Class 4C: Advanced hotspot analysis (A)
Spencer Chainey, UCL Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science
Class 4D: Crime analysis and crime mapping for managers (G)
Gloria Laycock, UCL Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science
Class 4E: Mapping offender movements along routes: the crime travel demand model (A)
Ned Levine, Ned Levine and Associates, USA

10.45-11.15

Break and exhibition

11.20-12.20

PARALLEL SESSIONS 5

5A Public perceptions and confidence (I) (REPEATED IN 2A)

What police activity influences public confidence? Results from London. Paul Richards, University College London Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
Towards crime perception maps: automatically extracting quantitative results from qualitative questionnaire responses. Will Simm, Marie Angela Ferrario, Baseerit Nasa, Jane Binner and Jon Whittle, Lancaster University

5B Coordinating responses (G)

A 5WH approach to reducing crime and disorder. Clare Tector, Leicestershire Constabulary
Safer Schools Partnerships: sharing the learning experience. Helen Hodges, Safer Birmingham Partnership

Class 5C: Jerry's top ten crime mapping tips (B)
Jerry Ratcliffe, Temple University, USA
Class 5D: Automating mapping and analytical tasks using MapInfo (G)
Andy Brumwell, West Midlands Police
Class 5E: Crime analysis for investigations - the use of geography at volume crime level (G)
Neil Trainor, National Policing Improvement Agency

12.20-13.20

Lunch and exhibition

13.25-14.45

2nd PLENARY - EXPERIMENTS IN TARGETING HOTSPOTS (G)

The Manchester Crime Experiment: focussing police officers on pressure points
Ian Palmer, Greater Manchester Police and Larry Sherman, University of Cambridge (TBC)
The Philadelphia foot patrol experiment: tackling violent crime hotspots
Jerry Ratcliffe, Temple University, USA

14.50

Conference prizes

15.05

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