Hot spot analyse in de praktijk : illustraties aan de hand van het fenomeen woninginbraken in het arrondissement Turnhout
Different techniques are available for the criminologists and strategic analysts in police services to determine the criminal « hot spots ». This article gives an overview of some of those techniques : dot maps, symbol maps and choropleths, cluster analysis, local indicators of spatial association (...
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| Language: | English |
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Société Royale Belge de Géographie and the Belgian National Committee of Geography
2001-12-01
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| Series: | Belgeo |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/belgeo/15675 |
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| Summary: | Different techniques are available for the criminologists and strategic analysts in police services to determine the criminal « hot spots ». This article gives an overview of some of those techniques : dot maps, symbol maps and choropleths, cluster analysis, local indicators of spatial association (LISA), raster analysis. The practical application of each technique on the occasion of the analysis of the house breaking phenomenon in the arrondissement of Turnhout gives an idea of the pros and cons of each technique when used by police services. We conclude that, even with the more statistical methods, the examiner has a considerable influence on the result when determining hot spots. Moreover the high concentration of criminal facts should also be explained in a satisfactory way so that a problem-centered apprehension becomes possible. |
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| ISSN: | 1377-2368 2294-9135 |