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SUMMARY:Combining police perceptions with police records of serious crime 
 areas - Robert Haining (Dept. Geography\, University of Cambridge)
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DESCRIPTION:There is much interest in using police offence and offender da
 tabases to map the geography of crime and disorder. This interest comes fr
 om academics as well as some police forces. However\, there has been a ten
 dency to focus on descriptive mapping (including looking for clusters) and
  to treat the evidence of crime maps as in some sense definitive. This pre
 sentation takes a different perspective on such databases using as its exa
 mple the location of high intensity crime areas (HIA) in the city of Sheff
 ield\, England. Using police recorded offence and offender data and the Sh
 effield police's own perception of their high crime areas the results of m
 odelling the distribution of HIA from these two perspectives is reported a
 s a means of "getting behind" the data to better understand the distributi
 ons. The presentation also takes the position that both sources of data ha
 ve a contribution to make towards understanding the geography of HIA and w
 ill look at different ways of combining these two sets of data and the iss
 ues that are raised. \n\n
LOCATION:MR12\, CMS\, Wilberforce Road\, Cambridge\, CB3 0WB
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