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GIS: A New Tool for Criminology and Victimology's Studies

GIS: A New Tool for Criminology and Victimology's Studies

Elena Bianchini, Sandra Sicurella
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 24
ISBN13: 9781605668727|ISBN10: 1605668729|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616924300|EISBN13: 9781605668734
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-872-7.ch006
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Bianchini, Elena, and Sandra Sicurella. "GIS: A New Tool for Criminology and Victimology's Studies." Cases on Technologies for Teaching Criminology and Victimology: Methodologies and Practices, edited by Raffaella Sette, IGI Global, 2010, pp. 87-110. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-872-7.ch006

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Bianchini, E. & Sicurella, S. (2010). GIS: A New Tool for Criminology and Victimology's Studies. In R. Sette (Ed.), Cases on Technologies for Teaching Criminology and Victimology: Methodologies and Practices (pp. 87-110). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-872-7.ch006

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Bianchini, Elena, and Sandra Sicurella. "GIS: A New Tool for Criminology and Victimology's Studies." In Cases on Technologies for Teaching Criminology and Victimology: Methodologies and Practices, edited by Raffaella Sette, 87-110. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2010. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60566-872-7.ch006

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Abstract

The advent of the GIS technology has revolutionized the traditional field of information and cartographic production. The GIS, indeed, enables the management of much more numerous and more complex data and it is able to overcome the static and the traditional two-dimensional cartography. The Geographic Information Systems (GIS), that is used in various fields and disciplines, represent, also, in the university research, a valuable tool for investigation. In criminology, in particular, it has facilitated, regarding the city of Bologna, on the one hand, a kind of crime mapping on the nature of the so called “petty crimes” within the jurisdiction of the criminal Justice of the Peace, and the creation of a city’s map on which have been identified support centers for victims operating in them. The use of GIS software is the basis in order to realize and put into practice not only operational measures designed to combat and to prevent crime, but it is also of help to social control measures, to public policy and to security. To the end of ensuring public safety, nowadays, it is essential, to have a clear, spatial and graphics representation, of the high concentrations of crime areas and of the degraded ones, in which there is a greater likelihood that some type of crime is committed.

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