The new version of CrimeStat is compatible with MapInfo and adds several new features including a travel demand model. As always, it is free. Dick
Richard Block Department of Sociology Loyola University 6525 N Sheridan Rd. Chicago IL 60626 Telephone 773 508 3454 FAX 773 508 7099 email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--- Begin Message ---About CrimeStat III CrimeStat is a spatial statistics program for the analysis of crime incident locations, developed by Ned Levine & Associates under grant 2002-IJ-CX-0007 from the National Institute of Justice. The program is Windows-based and interfaces with most desktop GIS programs. The program provides supplemental statistical tools to aid law enforcement agencies and criminal justice researchers in their crime mapping efforts. CrimeStat is being used by many police departments around the country as well as by criminal justice and other researchers. The new version is 3.0 (CrimeStat III) and is available free of charge. The program inputs incident locations (e.g., robbery locations) in 'dbf', 'shp', ASCII or ODBC-compliant formats using either spherical or projected coordinates. It calculates various spatial statistics and writes graphical objects to ArcViewR, ArcGISR, MapInfoR, Atlas*GIST, SurferR for Windows, and ArcView Spatial AnalystR. The statistics cover spatial description and distance analysis (for describing the general spatial pattern of crimes), hot spot analysis (for identifying concentrations of crashes), interpolation (for visualizing crime concentrations over a large area), space-time analysis (for understanding temporal and spatial interaction in offender behavior), and journey-to-crime estimation (for estimating the likely residence location of a serial offender). New in version 3.0 is a module for crime travel demand modeling, widely used in transportation planning. It allows a crime analyst to model crime trips over a metropolitan area and to make reasonable guesses at the travel mode and likely routes taken. It can also be used to model possible interventions. CrimeStat III is accompanied by sample data sets and a manual that gives the background behind the statistics and examples. The manual was fully re-written and also discusses applications of CrimeStat developed by other analysts and researchers. The crime travel demand module is fully documented with six new chapters and a chapter with case studies on Chicago and Las Vegas by Richard Block and Dan Helms. For more information on the features of CrimeStat III, see the MAPS website: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/maps Or the National Archive of Crime Justice Data site where the program and documentation can be downloaded: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/CRIMESTAT Ned Levine __________________________________________________________ LEANALYST mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.leanalyst.info/ You are subscribed as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To manage your subscription options, or unsubscribe, visit: http://lists.leanalyst.info/mailman/options/leanalyst/rblock%40luc.edu
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