Knowledge transfer: Predictive mapping

PI:  Professor Shane Johnson
Funding:  ESRC

Project objectives

A portfolio of academic research conducted by staff at the UCL Department of Security and Crime Science demonstrates that there are regularities in crime patterns that can facilitate a better understanding of crime problems and help to predict future patterns of crime.

To translate the academic research findings into something actionable that can be used in a police context, this ESRC funded project had the following objectives, to:

  1. examine the way that police analysts conduct analyses on a day-to-day basis and to identify forms of analysis that are not currently possible but that might be of value;
  2. discuss cutting-edge academic research and explore how it might inform operational policing; and,
  3. develop and assess the potential utility of software to perform analyses that are perceived to be useful by the police. (See download link below.)

Publications

Bowers, K. J., & Johnson, S. D. (2014). Crime mapping as a tool for security and crime prevention. In M. Gill (Ed.) The Handbook of Security. Palgrave MacMillan.

Downloads

Details of how to use the JDI Near-Repeat Toolkit, including download links for the manual and software can be found by clicking here.

Research contact

If you have any enquiries about our work in this particular area of research, please contact:

Group lead: Spencer Chainey
Email: spencer.chainey@ucl.ac.uk
Tel: 020 3108 3203