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Website of the month: Crimemapper - local cime mapping

Ways the website can be used:

• Crime can be compared across the country at national, regional scales and local scales.
• Compare the crime rates in several constabularies and draw conclusions from any differing / similar results i.e. do crime rates and crime type vary in urban areas to rural areas and if so why?
• Compare the type of crime against economic, social and physical characteristics of a particular area – the use of OS maps could be used alongside the website for example.
• Students could map the different types of crime in areas to the activities / building uses of areas to see if there are correlations and draw conclusions.
• Hypotheses could be tested to see if there are any correlations between house prices and the types of crime that occur. (Students could investigate local area house prices using estate agents and websites)
• Information on the website could be used in conjunction with census date for the similar areas to see if there are any patterns between crime and education; crime and economic activity; crime and household income. Students could then analyse any findings.
• Crime could be compared to land use maps of areas to see if there are any correlations.
• The website could be used in conjunction with local fieldwork. E.g. Students carry out environmental assessments of local areas prior to looking at the website and decide if they think crime may occur in certain areas due to their perceptions, the land use of an area, whether there are spaces that could be more ‘risky’ than others. The website can then be used to investigate the actual number of crimes that occur and the types of crime, this can then be compared to their perceptions and ideas – conclusions can be drawn.
• Limitations of the website can be discussed in class i.e. students actual experiences of areas compared to the data on the website for those areas; what are the limitations of the actual data the website shows.