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

Advanced GIS and Crime Analysisexplores the existing spatial variability of crime committed against women in West Bengal and steadily excavates the underlying determinants accountable for specific crimes against women. The book applies GIS technologies to visualize complex crime patterns over space and suggests specific measures to curb oppression.

The book applies statistical methods and GIS techniques to visualize the vulnerable areas of crime against women in West Bengal and critically discusses emerging criminogenic issues with respect to theoretical understanding and immediate situations. The determination of the most significant crime hotspots, deliberation of substantial facts through a variety of collective socio-economic as well as environmental perspectives, and suggestive measures will assist law enforcement officials, practitioners, and policymakers in adopting immediate, effective measures.

Advanced GIS and Crime Analysis will be beneficial for students of criminology, research scholars, practitioners, urban planners, and policymakers to understand the complex crime patterns that exist in West Bengal.

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

Nilanjana Das Chatterjee is a professor and head of the Department of Geography at Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, 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 emphasizes the use of evaluation strategies to develop community-level awareness and support policy-level change to enhance the quality of society.