Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce Dr Leslie W. Kennedy's talk on Applying Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM) to Crime Analysis and Intervention on Wednesday 15 October 2014,
5:30-6:30PM. Please find the abstract and directions below. NB: due to a number of logistic arrangements we were not able to circulate this invitation earlier.
The School of Geography Seminars are free to attend and meant to be intellectually and socially inclusive. We therefore give all members of staff and interested colleagues and students a warm welcome.
Representatives of West Yorkshire Police will join this particular Seminar, too.
Best wishes,
Dr Karen Bacon & Dr Martin Zebracki
Convenors, School of Geography Seminars
ABSTRACT
Applying Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM) to Crime Analysis and Intervention
Dr Leslie W. Kennedy, Rutgers University
http://rscj.newark.rutgers.edu/faculty/member/kennedy-leslie/
Geography Lecture Theatre, Geography East Building (location details below)
Wednesday 15 October 2014, 5:30-6:30PM
I will describe research that is being conducted that connects research on risky places with police intervention strategies using Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM), a geospatial method of operationalising the spatial influence of crime risk factors to common geographic units that was developed at Rutgers University. Separate risk map layers are combined to produce a risk terrain map showing the presence, absence, or intensity of all risk factors at every location throughout the landscape. I will demonstrate a software utility that automates the processing of RTM. I will then discuss its application in a multi-jurisdictional study of a representative selection of cities in the United States that I am conducting with Joel Caplan and Eric Piza as Co-PIs. This study is designed as a quasi-experimental project with two primary goals: 1) to replicate and validate RTM in multiple jurisdictions and across many different crime types; and, 2) to evaluate theoretically- and empirically-grounded risk-based interventions targeted at high-risk micro-level environments.
BIO
Leslie W. Kennedy (PhD University of Toronto) is currently University Professor of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University and Director of the Rutgers Center on Public Security. He teaches graduate-level courses at the School of Criminal Justice (SCJ) and is a core faculty member in the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers. He was the Dean of SCJ from 1998 to 2007. Dr Kennedy's current research in public security builds upon his previous work in event analysis, assessing the social contexts in which dangers in society are identified and deterred. He is the author or co-author of 20 books and over 70 research articles and chapters. He has published in major journals in criminology and criminal justice, including Criminology, Justice Quarterly, and Journal of Quantitative Criminology.
DIRECTIONS
This Seminar is held in the School of Geography Lecture Theatre. This can
be found in the Geography East Building, University of Leeds. If you find
the car park in the centre of this Google Maps image at
http://goo.gl/DbxKBC, the Geography East Building is the building on the
right of it. Enter from the car park, and follow the right-hand wall to
reach the Lecture Theatre. Instructions for getting to the University, and
for visitor car parking, can be found here:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/info/20014/about/157/how_to_find_us.
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Dr M.M. (Martin) Zebracki
Lecturer in Critical Human Geography
School of Geography
University of Leeds
University Road
Leeds LS2 9JT
United Kingdom
+44 (0) 113 34 33331
http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/m.zebracki
http://www.zebracki.org
http://twitter.com/zebracki
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