GIS Application for Crime Prediction : A Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Crime Against Women in West Bengal India

This book is on the Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Crime Against Women (CAW) in West Bengal (WB). It is written to determine the context of any crime corresponding to the knowledge of space and time and be considered. Where when certain types of crime occurred is the prime consideration of understanding crime events. Hence this book will: 1. Address Crime Against Women event from geographical perspectives.2. Focus on understanding the socio-economic and environmental factors responsible for the occurrence of Crime Against Women in WB.3. Analyze spatial pattern of CAW in WB.4. Do physical environmental zoning to relate the occurrence of CAW in a different environmental setting which will be the first of its kind in India.5. Focus on border areas crime with special reference to women trafficking and flesh trade.6. Analyze district-wise detailed analysis of CAW to portray the differential causes and types of CAW in WB.7. Predict crime hotspot areas using geospatial and statistical models.8. Help the criminologist and police personnel to determine potential crime sites by examining complex seemingly unrelated criteria and displaying them all in a graphical layered spatial interface or map.9. Be effectively helpful to plan and prevent crime from further occurrence which will be the first of its kind in West Bengal as well as in India.