Abstract Geographic Information Systems Technologies in Crime Analysis and Crime Mapping

Abstract

Social and geographic factors, such as location of schools or neighborhoods with different socioeconomic status within an area, can influence the patterns and rate of crime incidents in that area. Crime analysis and crime maps, achieved by GIS, have a major role in reducing crime and improving the effective police activities. Cankaya district includes significant concentrations of evening, late-night leisure and shopping opportunities in Ankara. Using information such as where and when crime occurs, this paper emphasizes what the inputs and outputs of crime analysis could be. In the first stage, the relationship between socioeconomic characteristics and crime rate for two police precincts of Cankaya was investigated. Then, spatial and non-spatial GIS analyses using Spatial Analyst, Buffer Analysis, and Hotspot Analysis were performed. The findings of this paper give the potential incident sites. 1