Singleton, Alex D and Brunsdon, Chris (2014) Escaping the pushpin paradigm in geographic information science: (re)presenting national crime data. Area, 46 (3). pp. 294-304. ISSN 0004-0894

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Abstract

In 2011 the Home Office released the police.uk website, which provided a high-resolution map of recent crime data for the national extents of England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Through this free service, crimes were represented as points plotted on top of a Google map, visible down to a street level of resolution. However, in order to maintain confidentiality and to comply with data disclosure legislation, individual-level crimes were aggregated into points that represented clusters of events that were located over a series of streets. However, with aggregation the representation of crimes as points becomes problematic, engendering spurious precision over where crimes occurred. Given obvious public sensitivity to such information, there are social imperatives for appropriate representation of crime data, and as such, in this paper we present a method of translating the ‘point’ crime events into a new representational form that is tied to street network geography; presenting these results in an alternate national crime mapping portal http://www.policestreets.co.uk

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	neogeography; GIS; policing; Geoviz;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > National Centre for Geocomputation, NCG
Item ID:	8052
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12116
Depositing User:	Prof. Chris Brunsdon
Date Deposited:	23 Mar 2017 12:20
Journal or Publication Title:	Area
Publisher:	Wiley Blackwell
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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