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

:

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

Dr. Patricia Brantingham

pbrantin@sfu.ca (778) 782-3515

Merci

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.