2004 UC Proceedings Abstract
 GIS in Crime Mapping and Analysis Track: Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Author(s): Ebru Akpinar, Nurunnisa Usul Social and geographic factors, such as location of schools or neighborhoods with different socioeconomic status within an area, can influence the patterns and rate of crime in that area. Crime analysis and crime maps, achieved by GIS, have a major role in reducing crime and improving the effective police activities. Cankaya includes significant concentrations of evening, late-night leisure and shopping opportunities in Ankara. Using variables such as where and when crime occurs, this paper emphasizes what the inputs and outputs of crime analysis could be. In the first stage the relationship between socioeconomic characteristics and crime rate for each county of Ankara was investigated. Then spatial and non-spatial GIS analyses using Spatial Analyst, Buffer Analysis, and Hot Spot Analysis were performed for Cankaya. The results from this study detect the potential crime sites. Ebru Akpinar METU (Middle East Technical University) GGIT (Geodesy and Geographic Information Technolgies) Genclik st. 13/12 Anittepe Ankara 06570 TR Phone: +903126122370 Fax: +903126122390 E-mail: akpinar79@yahoo.com Nurunnisa Usul METU GGIT Middle East Technical University Ankara , Ankara 06531 TR Phone: +903122105448 E-mail: nurusul@metu.edu.tr |
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