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Mapping crime in South Australia

Leanne Weber

Published in:
National overview on crime prevention : proceedings of a conference held 4-6 June 1991
Sandra McKillop and Julia Vernon (eds.)
ISBN 0 642 18452 6 ; ISSN 1034-5086
Canberra : Australian Institute of Criminology, 1992
(AIC Conference Proceedings; no. 15)

Abstract

The Crime Mapping System (CMS) has been developed to meet the specific needs of the South Australian Police Department by: representing the geographical distribution of crime in South Australia in areas of relevance to the police and public; enabling the comparison of crime and sociodemographic patterns; and allowing crime and census information to be combined in various ways to calculate and map standardised rates of offending and other useful percentages. Weber describes the CMS structure, outputs, output uses and map types.