Twelve previously unpublished studies and reviews explore the impact of recent advances in crime mapping on crime prevention programs and criminological research. An introduction by editors David Weisburd and Tom McEwen traces the history of crime mapping and surveys the recent innovations that have brought crime mapping to the center of trends in crime prevention. The section on "Mapping as a Crime Prevention Tool" begins with Carolyn Rebecca Block's explication of the GeoArchive--a type of geographic information system--as a means of identifying problems and developing crime prevention strategies at the neighborhood level. Examples are drawn from the experiences of the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority. Faye S. Taxman and McEwen relate how police agencies have used geographic information systems to support interagency work groups on neighborhood crime prevention. Marc Buslik and Michael Maltz describe how the Chicago Police Department has reorganized its information system and changed its policies on information sharing in support of community policing. Lorraine Green Mazerolle et al. identify the challenges facing police departments that seek to launch computerized crime mapping systems, with examples from the Drug Market Analysis Program in Jersey City, NJ. Philip R. Canter explores the uses and possibilities of geographic information systems by police in Baltimore County (MD). The section on "Crime Mapping in Research" starts with a study by George F. Rengert and William V. Pelfrey contrasting the safety perceptions of community service recruits to actual crime levels of central Philadelphia (PA) communities. The mapping of gangs and gang violence in Boston (MA) based on the knowledge of police officers and other local crime experts is discussed by David M. Kennedy et al. Patricia L. and Paul J. Brantingham compare maps of violent crime in the cities of British Columbia (CAN) using 3 crime measures: counts, rates and crime lo

Crime Mapping and Crime Prevention

Politics & Social Sciences

Weisburd, David

David Weisburd

McEwen, Tom

Social Sciences

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<p>Landmark reforms have been adopted in recent years in the U.S. and Canada to change the response of key institutions to the crime of rape and the treatment of sexual assault victims. Drawing on the latest research, this collection of 14 original papers assesses the impact of these recent reforms on policies and practices in the criminal justice and health systems. The contributors are prominent scholars and practitioners from the fields of sociology, criminal justice, law, counseling, anthropology, biology and psychology. </p>
<p> Chapter topics include: The measurement of rape, by Debra S. Kelley; A case study of "cyber rape," by Livy A. Visano; Sexual assault against prisoners, by Charles Crawford; Rape law reform, by Frances P. Bernat; Canadian rape law reforms, by Margaret Denike; The use of expert psychological testimony in sexual assault court cases, by Gianneta Del Bove and Lana Stermac; Re-conceptualizing sexual assault as a social change process, by K. Edward Renner; Law enforcement's response to sexual assault, by Vivian B. Lord and Gary Rassel; Policing sexual violence, by James F. Hodgson; The role of sexual assault treatment programs in communities, by Elizabethann O'Sullivan; "Megan's Law" in California, by Suzette Cote; and "Megan's Law" and sex offender registration, by Robert E. Freeman-Longo.</p>

Sexual Violence: Policies, Practices, and Challenges in the United States and Canada

Hodgson, James F.

Kelley, Debra S.

African Americans make up about half of the U.S. prison population, and almost a third of African-American men in the twenties are either incarcerated or under probation/parole supervision. The fourteen previously unpublished papers in this anthology illuminate the origins and dynamics of these disproportionate levels of confinement and supervision of African Americans by the U.S. criminal justice system. Chapter topics include: -- the harmful effects of racial profiling; -- the racist application of capital punishment; -- do African-American police make a difference? -- racial characteristics of offenders and victims in television programs; -- corollaries and consequences of "driving while black" policies; -- private prisons and minority incarceration; -- underrepresentation of African-American victims in hate crime research; -- racial bias in the trials of juveniles as adults; -- the myth of black juror nullification; -- affirmative jury selection for racial fairness; -- racial stratification in the academic discipline of criminal justice; and, -- an oppression theory critique of restorative justice.

Racial Issues in Criminal Justice: The Case of African Americans

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