Course Description
This course will introduce students to the use of Geographic Information Systems and other data processing and storage software as they relate to criminal justice and crime statistics.
Students will be able to recount the principal theories of crime and criminal behavior and will apply several of those theories in a Geographic Information System with data provided or gathered by students.
Among the strategies and techniques introduced in this course are: regression (ordinary least squares / geographically weighted ), spatial autocorrelation, web mapping, several hot-spot analysis, and other predictive crime mapping tools.
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