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Foreword. Acknowledgments. Part I: Introduction: Operational Imperatives and Intellectual Cautionary Tales. Chapter 1: Using a Geographic Information System for Tactical Crime Analysis (Philip Canter). Chapter 2: The New York Police Department COMPSTAT Process: Mapping for Analysis, Evaluation, and Accountability (Philip G. McGuire). Chapter 3: Filters, Fears, and Photos: Speculations and Explorations in the Geography of Crime (Keith Harries). Chapter 4: The Spatial Analysis of Crime: What Social Scientists have Learned (Charles Swartz). Part II: Analyzing Crime Hot Spots in New York. Chapter 5: Finding Crime Hot Spots through Repeat Address Mapping (John E. Eck, Jeffrey S. Gersh, and Charlene Taylor). Chapter 6: Exploratory Data Analysis of Crime Patterns: Preliminary Findings from the Bronx (Sanjoy Chakravorty and William V. Pelfrey Jr.). Chapter 7: Identifying Crime Hot Spots Using Kernel Smoothing (Sara McLafferty, Doug Williamson, and Philip G. McGuire). Chapter 8: The Utility of Standard Deviation Ellipses for Evaluating Hot Spots (Robert H. Langworthy and Eric S. Jefferis). Part III: Crime and Facilities. Chapter 9: Crime, Space, and Place: An Analysis of Crime Patterns in Brooklyn. (Thomas Kamber, John H. Mollenkopf, and Timothy A. Ross). Chapter 10: Crime in Public Housing: Two-Way Diffusion Effects in Surrounding Neighborhoods (Jeffrey Fagan and Garth Davies). Chapter 11: The Bronx and Chicago: Street Robbery in the Environs of Rapid Transit Stations (Richard Block and Carolyn Rebecca Block). Chapter 12: Schools and Crime (Dennis W. Roncek). Part IV: Tools for Spatial Analysis. Chapter 13: Evaluating Statistical Software for Analyzing Crime Patterns and Trends. (Doug Williamson, Timothy A. Ross, Sara McLafferty, and Victor Goldsmith). Index. About the Authors.