The aim of this event was to bring together researchers, practitioners and policy makers to discuss the opportunities presented by advanced statistical modelling of crime events and improvements in interactive visualisation of crime data and modelling results.
A team based at St Andrews University around Dr Janine Illian (School of Mathematics and Statistics) have received funding from EPSRC/St Andrews University Impact Acceleration Funds to run a series of workshops. These relate to the development of new statistical methods for analysing crime patterns and predicting their occurrence in space and time. The outputs from such work have important implications for efficient and effective police deployment and crime prevention.
PROGRAMME
In search of ‘what works’: a short introduction to evidence-based policing Professor Nick Fyfe, Dundee
Modern statistical methods for spatio-temporal data – understanding patterns in space and time Dr Janine Illian, St Andrews
Spatial modelling : its use in predictive policing Charlotte Jones-Todd, St Andrews
Hot spots, cold spots and the areas in between : exploring changes in crime across time at a neighbourhood level Dr Ellie Bates, AQMeN Research Fellow in Criminology, Edinburgh
Computer games and modern visualisation methods Professor James Bown & Paul Robertson, Abertay
For further details, please contact the Business and Knowledge Transfer Manager, Tim Heilbronn (t.d.heilbronn@dundee.ac.uk)
