Crime Mapping Research Center (CMRC). (Web-based Resources).The CMRC CMRC Canadian Motosport Racing Club CMRC Commerce One Inc. (stock symbol) CMRC Caribbean Marine Research Center CMRC Crime Mapping Research Center CMRC Credit Management Research Centre (UK) Web site is the primary source of information from the National Institute of Justice's (NIJ Noun 1. NIJ - the law enforcement agency that is the research and development branch of the Department of Justice National Institute of Justice Department of Justice, DoJ, Justice Department, Justice - the United States federal department responsible for ) Crime Mapping Crime mapping is used by analysts in law enforcement agencies to map, visualize, and analyze crime incident patterns. It is a key component of crime analysis and the CompStat policing strategy. Research Center. It serves as an international clearinghouse for information about the development of crime mapping and spatial analysis (Data West Research Agency definition: see GIS glossary.) Analytical techniques to determine the spatial distribution of a variable, the relationship between the spatial distribution of variables, and the association of the variables of an area. . It includes a list of CMRC staff, NIJ-funded grants that pertain to crime mapping, descriptions of upcoming conferences, a list of mapping-related software, a bibliography of crime-mapping resources, and descriptions of CMRC's current initiatives. CRIMEMAP, CMRC's listserv, is one of the center's main information dissemination tools. CRIMEMAP facilitates communication among crime analysts, researchers, geographers, and other interested parties about justice-related computerized mapping technologies. CMRC can be accessed at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/cmrc. |
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