Enquiry approach to the geography of crime

1 -Planning phase
1. Watch the crime mapping videos
2. Use the links to read about other research and understand theory
3. Use video tutorial part 1 to look at local data
4. Form study aim and sub questions
5. Choose a small scale study area
6. Draft an outline plan for your study
2 - Data collection
1. Identify data needed
  1. See the primary data ideas section
2. acquire secondary data
  1. Use video tutorials parts 1, 2, 5 and 6
3. Develop risk assessment for any fieldwork
4. Develop data recording sheets
5. Decide on sampling size and approach
6. Collect primary data
  1. See video tutorials parts 7 and 10
3 - Data presentation
1. As GIS maps
  1. See video tutorial part 2, 3 and 4
    1. Chloropleth maps
    2. Heat maps
    3. Hot spots
    4. Colour shaded symbols
    5. Proportional symbols
    6. Isoline maps
2. As Graphs
  1. See video tutorial part 9
3. As annotated photos
4. As sumary tables of data
4 - Data analysis
1. Spatial analysis
  1. See video tutorials part 4, 8 and 9
    1. Hot spots
    2. Counts by areas
    3. Counts within a distance of places
2. Describe patterns and trends
  1. Explain data
3. Proportional analysis
  1. Percentages
4. Correlations
  1. See video tutorial part 9
5 - Conclusion and evaluation
1. Synthesise key findings
  1. Compare to theory/ expections
  2. Make recommendations for Police and government
2. Confidence in findings
  1. Strenghts of study
  2. Limitations of approach
    1. Suggested improvements
    2. How to extend the study

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