Uvod v kartiranje kriminalitete

Authors

Katja Eman
University of Maribor, Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1519-822X
Rok Hacin
University of Maribor, Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2265-5422
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18690/978-961-286-547-4

Keywords:

Slovenia, geographic data, crime statistics, Geographic Information System (GIS), mapping

Synopsis

Introduction to Crime Mapping. Textbook with tutorials on mapping results from twenty years of research at the Faculty of Criminal Justice, University of Maribor. The textbook itself comprises 17 chapters, which can be divided into two parts. In the first (theoretical) part, which consists of five chapters, students are introduced to Geographic Information Systems (GIS), the history of mapping, and crime mapping development. The second part of the textbook comprises 12 tutorials, through which students will learn how to use the tools offered by the ArcGIS program in practice. Tutorials follow the difficulty level (from the first basic steps to independent work). The textbook itself is primarily intended for students of the Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor, who want to get acquainted with analytics and mapping, as the emphasis is on mapping crime and other deviant phenomena. Moreover, the textbook presents useful material for practitioners in the institutions of criminal justice (especially the police) and other interested individuals.

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Author Biographies

Katja Eman, University of Maribor, Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security

Katja Eman, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Criminology at the Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor. She is the head of the EU SHINE project and, as a researcher, participates in the research program Safety and security in local communities: Comparison ofrural and urban environments. At the Faculty of Security Sciences, University of Maribor she teaches criminology and victimology, green criminology and environmental justice, economic and white-collar crime, international security integration, and crime mapping. Her main research interests include green criminology and environmental crime, crime mapping, and crime prevention.

Ljubljana, Slovenia. E-mail: katja.eman@fvv.uni-mb.si

Rok Hacin, University of Maribor, Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security

Rok Hacin, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor.  As a researcher, he is active in the research program Safety and security in local communities: Comparison of rural and urban. environments. He also participates in the international collection of criminal justice statistics as part of the research group working on the European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics. At the Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, he teaches the basics of criminology, penology, tertiary prevention, and crime mapping. His main research interests include crime mapping, legitimacy of criminal justice, comparative penology, and criminal justice statistics.

Ljubljana, Slovenia. E-mail: rok.hacin@fvv.uni-mb.si

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Published

December 23, 2021

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COBISS.SI ID (00)

89047811

ISBN-13 (15)

978-961-286-547-4

Date of first publication (11)

2021-12-23

Physical Dimensions

16.5cm x 23.5cm x 1.8cm

How to Cite

Uvod v kartiranje kriminalitete. (2021). University of Maribor Press. https://doi.org/10.18690/978-961-286-547-4