1. Crime Patterns and Urban Living
Dr. Patricia Brantingham
Justin Song, Valerie Spicer, Richard Frank, Jim LeBeau

2. Foresight
Simon Fraser University: Engagement

3. Setting
• Simon Fraser University
 Engagement
• ICURS
 Researchers
 Linked laboratories
 MOU’s
 Secure laboratory

4. Engagement
• Simon Fraser University
• Bridge the gap
• Collaborative
• Strategies – Tactics – Research

5. Innovation
• Data
• Interpretation – Theory
• Results

6. Crime is not random
• Daily activities
• Routine space
• Urban structure
• People and groups

7. Amsterdam Realtime:
Esther Polak and Jeroen Kee with the Waag Society
http://realtime.waag.org
:

8. Amsterdam Realtime:

9. Crime Patterns
• Road network
• Land use
• City infrastructure
• Pushes and pulls
• Paths – nodes – edges
• Attractors – generators

10. Nodes – Paths
( all crimes, mid 2001-mid 2006)

14. Engagement
Data to Knowledge

15. Dr. Patricia Brantingham
pbrantin@sfu.ca (778) 782-3515
Merci

16. References
• R. Frank, V. Dabbaghian, S. Singh, A. Reid, J. Cinnamon and P. Brantingham, Power of criminal
attractors: Modeling the pull of activity nodes, Journal of Artificial Society and Social Simulation,
14(1), (2011). Access at http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/14/1/6.
• R. Frank, Andresen, M.A., and Brantingham, P.L. Criminal directionality and the structure of urban
form. Journal of Environmental Psychology 32(1) (2012), 37- 42.
• J. Song, Frank, R., Brantingham, P., LeBeau, J., “Visualizing the Spatial Movement Patterns of
Offenders” Proc. 20th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic
Information Systems, 2012.