Noted Cambridge Researcher Conducts Geography of Crime Seminar
Robert Haining, Professor of Human Geography, Head of the Department of Geography, and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College at the Univeristy of Cambridge, will condcut a seminar on "Combining Police Perceptions with Police Records of Serious Crime Areas." The talk is open to interested studets and faculty in EPPS and other Schools at UTD. It will take place in the EPPS Seminar Room in Green Gall 3.606 on Friday, April 6, 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. Dr. Haining is a nationally and internationally known researcher in methodologies for spatial data analysis with applications in health services, the geography of crime, and economic geography.
Dr. Robert Haining Bob Haining's publications include Spatial Data Analysis in the Social and Environmental Sciences and Spatial Data Analysis; Theory and Practice, both published by Cambridge University Press, as well as numerous journal articles. Prior to joining the Cambridge faculty, he held positions at Queen's University Belfast and the University of Sheffield.
The seminar will describe research on the location of serious crime neighborhoods in Sheffield, England based on two sources of data: senior police officer perceptions of the locations of these neighborhoods and evidence in police databases of recorded crime. The results of modeling these two spatial distributions using 2001 census data will be presented. The seminar also will discuss a methodology for combining expert knowledge with evidence contained in large geo-referenced databases. It concludes with an evlauation of the use of model-based approaches to identifying high crime areas. The research goal is to move beyond descriptive mapping of crime data and to explore how to combine, in a formal way, different types of knowledge in the analysis of crime and disorder maps.
- Updated: March 20, 2007
