ABSTRACT
Crime events are far from being random phenomena. They tend to occur in particular geographical areas in a city; they may occur at certain hours of the day and even in association with specific demographical, land use, and socioeconomic aspects of the population. As Hirschfield et al. [1] argue, the discovery of these patterns and regularities through crime analysis is the first step to more finely targeting resources to fight crime and formulate preventive strategies.
