Exploring the Spatial Configuration of Places Related to Homicide Events, Final Report - Tapa blanda

Groff, Elizabeth; McEwen, Tom

 
9781249597865: Exploring the Spatial Configuration of Places Related to Homicide Events, Final Report

Sinopsis

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is the research, development and evaluation
agency of the US Department of Justice. The NIJ is dedicated to improving
knowledge and understanding of crime and justice issues through science. NIJ
provides objective and independent knowledge and tools to reduce crime and
promote justice, particularly at the state and local levels.

Each year, the NIJ publishes and sponsors dozens of research and study documents
detailing results, analyses and statistics that help to further the organization's
mission. These documents relate to topics like biometrics, corrections technology,
gun violence, digital forensics, human trafficking, electronic crime, terrorism, tribal
justice and more. This document is one of these publications.

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Reseña del editor

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is the research, development and evaluation
agency of the US Department of Justice. The NIJ is dedicated to improving
knowledge and understanding of crime and justice issues through science. NIJ
provides objective and independent knowledge and tools to reduce crime and
promote justice, particularly at the state and local levels.

Each year, the NIJ publishes and sponsors dozens of research and study documents
detailing results, analyses and statistics that help to further the organization's
mission. These documents relate to topics like biometrics, corrections technology,
gun violence, digital forensics, human trafficking, electronic crime, terrorism, tribal
justice and more. This document is one of these publications.

Biografía del autor

Elizabeth Groff (PhD in geography, 2006, University of Maryland) is an Associate Professor in the Criminal Justice department at Temple University. She is an applied researcher who was the first GIS Coordinator at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department and a former Director of the National Institute of Justice's Crime Mapping Research Center. Her research interests include place-based criminology, modelling geographical influences on human activity, the role of technology in police organizations, and the development of innovative methodologies using geographic information systems, agent-based simulation models, and randomized experiments. She became a fellow of the Academy of Experimental Criminology in 2010.

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