Advanced GIS and Crime Analysis: Violence Against Women in West Bengal, India

Advanced GIS and Crime Analysis explores the existing spatial variability of crime committed against women in West Bengal and steadily excavates the underlying determinants accountable for specific crimes against women.

Priyanka Biswas holds a PhD from Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India. Her areas of research interest are criminological studies, especially crime against women, urban environment and crime, and statistical modelling. She emphasises multidisciplinary efforts to visualise crime scenarios and evaluate policy-level change to make society crime-free.

Nilanjana Das Chatterjee is Professor and Head of the Department of Geography at Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India. Her principal areas of research interest are environmental issues in geography, criminological analysis, and criminal psychology, with special reference to gender, urban environment, and associated socio-economic milieu. She emphasises the use of evaluation strategies to develop community-level awareness and support policy-level change to enhance the quality of society.