Social Science and Crime Mapping using GIS

A critical exploration of applying Geographic Information System (GIS) to view, understand, question, interpret, and visualize social science and crime data that reveal relationships, patterns, and trends. 

After completing this course, students will be able to:

1.  Frame a research question or hypothesis from a location-based perspective;
2.  Collect, create and examine geographically referenced demographic, social, and criminological data;
3. Learn to use GIS mapping software to visualize, manage and analyze this data in order to investigate the relationship between geographic, demographic, social and criminological variables; and
4.  Arrive upon decisions and conclusions and communicate these via the creation of publishable maps.

CRJS/SOC 344 – A Review of: “The First of Hurricane: GIS Analysis of Hurricanes and Domestic Violence Offences in Florida”

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