Crime Patterns and Urban Living Dr. Patricia Brantingham Justin Song, Valerie Spicer, Richard Frank, Jim LeBeau
Jun 19, 2015
Crime Patterns and Urban Living
Dr. Patricia Brantingham
Justin Song, Valerie Spicer, Richard Frank, Jim LeBeau
Foresight
Simon Fraser University: Engagement
Setting
• Simon Fraser University Engagement
• ICURS Researchers
Linked laboratories
MOU’s
Secure laboratory
Engagement
• Simon Fraser University
• Bridge the gap
• Collaborative
• Strategies – Tactics – Research
Innovation
• Data
• Interpretation – Theory
• Results
Crime is not random
• Daily activities
• Routine space
• Urban structure
• People and groups
Amsterdam Realtime:
Esther Polak and Jeroen Kee with the Waag Society
http://realtime.waag.org
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Amsterdam Realtime:
Crime Patterns
• Road network
• Land use
• City infrastructure
• Pushes and pulls
• Paths – nodes – edges
• Attractors – generators
Nodes – Paths ( all crimes, mid 2001-mid 2006)
Engagement
Data to Knowledge
References
• R. Frank, V. Dabbaghian, S. Singh, A. Reid, J. Cinnamon and P. Brantingham, Power of criminal
attractors: Modeling the pull of activity nodes, Journal of Artificial Society and Social Simulation,
14(1), (2011). Access at http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/14/1/6.
• R. Frank, Andresen, M.A., and Brantingham, P.L. Criminal directionality and the structure of urban
form. Journal of Environmental Psychology 32(1) (2012), 37- 42.
• J. Song, Frank, R., Brantingham, P., LeBeau, J., “Visualizing the Spatial Movement Patterns of
Offenders” Proc. 20th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic
Information Systems, 2012.