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Kartering av kriminalitet i Malmö - Brottsförebyggande rumsliga arbetssätt

Öman, Carl LU (2015) SGEL36 20151
Department of Human Geography
Abstract
Crime prevention is an important part of the police duties and a part of increasing security in society. Crime prevention can be long-term projects, where some of the work might be visiting schools to promote children and teenagers from future crimes, or short-term projects when possible crimes are prevented in place. One type of crime prevention is to show the most crimefrequent locations with the help of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and maps and then focus the police operations to those spots. With GIS and maps as crime prevention the prevention takes a spatial approach and the spot where the crime has been committed becomes as import as or even more important than the criminal. This study will primarily focus on the crime... (More)
Crime prevention is an important part of the police duties and a part of increasing security in society. Crime prevention can be long-term projects, where some of the work might be visiting schools to promote children and teenagers from future crimes, or short-term projects when possible crimes are prevented in place. One type of crime prevention is to show the most crimefrequent locations with the help of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and maps and then focus the police operations to those spots. With GIS and maps as crime prevention the prevention takes a spatial approach and the spot where the crime has been committed becomes as import as or even more important than the criminal. This study will primarily focus on the crime prevention with spatial approach the police in Malmö uses. (Less)
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author
Öman, Carl LU
supervisor
organization
course
SGEL36 20151
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Hot spot-analysis, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Malmö, Crime prevention
language
Swedish
id
7765040
date added to LUP
2015-09-16 12:00:52
date last changed
2015-09-16 12:00:52
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  abstract     = {{Crime prevention is an important part of the police duties and a part of increasing security in society. Crime prevention can be long-term projects, where some of the work might be visiting schools to promote children and teenagers from future crimes, or short-term projects when possible crimes are prevented in place. One type of crime prevention is to show the most crimefrequent locations with the help of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and maps and then focus the police operations to those spots. With GIS and maps as crime prevention the prevention takes a spatial approach and the spot where the crime has been committed becomes as import as or even more important than the criminal. This study will primarily focus on the crime prevention with spatial approach the police in Malmö uses.}},
  author       = {{Öman, Carl}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Kartering av kriminalitet i Malmö - Brottsförebyggande rumsliga arbetssätt}},
  year         = {{2015}},
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