ABSTRACT
As outlined in the previous chapter, there are many issues that must be addressed, or at least acknowledged, when undertaking some form of (spatial) crime analysis. However, even if all of those crime measurement issues are addressed to a greater or lesser extent there are still other issues that relate to the spatial analysis itself. In this chapter, we will not cover subject matter that relates to crime mapping, per se. For information on that topic, I refer the reader to a publication published by the United States National Institute of Justice in 1999: Mapping Crime: Principle and Practice , by Keith Harries. Though this publication is now fi fteen years old, it covers a lot of the fundamentals of crime mapping that do not change and is available free for download: https://www.ncjrs.gov/html/nij/mapping/pdf.html . Rather, in this chapter we will cover a few of the “bigger” issues with regard to spatial crime analysis. Specifi cally, we will cover: ecological fallacy, modifi able areal unit problem, spatial autocorrelation, local analysis, and visualization.
