RTM Summer 2011 Update
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Joel Caplan
Sep 17, 2011, 8:29:09 PM9/17/11
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Rutgers Center on Public Security -- “The Place for Spatial Risk Analysis”
Dear RTM User,
On behalf of the Rutgers Center on Public Security (RCPS), below is an update about risk terrain modeling (RTM) and the RTM Manual that you downloaded at www.riskterrainmodeling.com. As promised in previous reports, we’ll keep this email brief but informative.
***User Response and Access***
-- In a little more than a year since posting the RTM Manual online, we recently reached the 1,000th download thanks to a faculty member of Geography and GIS at Univ. of Nebraska and Fellow of Nebraska Public Policy Center (NOTE: this identifying information was released in this announcement with permission).
-- You can share your thoughts and read what others have to say at the Risk Terrain Modeling Google Group (http://groups.google.com/group/risk-terrain-modeling). There are now 126 members of the group.
-- Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice now offers a semester-long, 3-credit course on Spatial Risk Assessment. A key focus of the course is RTM.
***Update on Applications***
-- An RTM Toolset for ArcGIS 10 was created and posted online. The toolset for version 9.3 was also revised as of 5/2011.
-- Without conducting a formal survey of RTM users, it's difficult to know exactly how many organizations/agencies are using RTM on a daily basis. But, we know of at least 12 U.S. police agencies that are currently using RTM for crime analysis. If you are one of them, or if you know of others, we'd like to hear from you about your work.
***Recent Book Chapter***
-- Kennedy, L. W. & Caplan, J. M. (2011). Risk Terrains and Crime Emergence. In J. McGloin, C. Sullivan, and L. W. Kennedy. When Crime Appears: The Role of Crime Emergence. NY: Taylor & Francis.
-- Rusnak, D., L.W. Kennedy, J. Caplan and I. Eldivan. (forthcoming). Analyzing Terrorism Using Spatial Analysis Techniques : A Case Study of Turkish Cities” in Cynthia Lum and L.W.Kennedy (editors), Evidence-Based Counterterrorism Policy. NY: Springer.
***Supplementary Material***
-- The “Risk Terrain Modeling Compendium” was produced by the Rutgers Center on Public Security and is available for free download on the RTM website. The *RTM Compendium* presents applications and concepts of RTM that were not already discussed at length in the RTM Manual.
-- Several new research briefs and case studies have been posted online, including one that applies RTM to Aggravated Assaults in Newark, NJ. A direct link to the brief is:
http://www.rutgerscps.org/rtm/AggAssaultRTM_CaseStudy_Brief.pdf
***Dissemination of The RTM Approach***
-- The Risk Terrain Modeling Workshop Webinar—a 12 module, 30-day online self-guided course, with two live instructional webcasts, launched in Spring 2011 and has had over 35 registrants in just two course offerings to-date. Another workshop will likely be scheduled sometime in 2012.
***Forthcoming workshops and conference presentations***
-- 16-Hour workshop, "Risk Terrain Modeling for Spatial Risk Assessment." National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Mapping and Analysis for Public Safety (MAPS) Program Eleventh Annual Crime Mapping Research Conference – Preconference Training, Miami, FL, October 2011.
-- 3-Hour workshop, "Risk Terrain Modeling for Spatial Risk Assessment." International Association of Crime Analysts Annual Meeting, Hyannis, MA, September 2011.
-- There will be a special session on RTM for the upcoming meetings of the American Society of Criminology (ASC) in Washington, DC in November. The sessions are titled: “Applications of Risk Terrain Modeling and a Live Demo”, “Ecological Studies and Crime Forecasting”, “When Crime Appears: The Role of Emergence”, and “Evidence-Based Counterterrorism (II): Data and Methods for Evaluation”. We hope to see you there.
-- Check out the RTM-related presentations by a variety of experts from around the world at the upcoming IACA conference in Cape Cod (http://www.iaca.net/conference.asp); at the Upcoming NIJ MAPS conference in Miami, FL (http://www.crimemapping2011.com/); and at the ASC conference in Washington, DC (http://asc41.com/annualmeeting.htm).
***Until our next (infrequent) update, check out www.riskterrainmodeling.com for events, news, publications, research briefs, case studies, and more regarding RTM. Also, send us your work to post or add links at www.riskterrainmodeling.com.
***We welcome your feedback! Please tell us how you are using RTM and/or if you have any constructive feedback. Send a brief or lengthy email to rutge...@gmail.com. We look forward to hearing from you.
Respectfully,
Les Kennedy and Joel Caplan
Dear RTM User,
On behalf of the Rutgers Center on Public Security (RCPS), below is an update about risk terrain modeling (RTM) and the RTM Manual that you downloaded at www.riskterrainmodeling.com. As promised in previous reports, we’ll keep this email brief but informative.
***User Response and Access***
-- In a little more than a year since posting the RTM Manual online, we recently reached the 1,000th download thanks to a faculty member of Geography and GIS at Univ. of Nebraska and Fellow of Nebraska Public Policy Center (NOTE: this identifying information was released in this announcement with permission).
-- You can share your thoughts and read what others have to say at the Risk Terrain Modeling Google Group (http://groups.google.com/group/risk-terrain-modeling). There are now 126 members of the group.
-- Rutgers University School of Criminal Justice now offers a semester-long, 3-credit course on Spatial Risk Assessment. A key focus of the course is RTM.
***Update on Applications***
-- An RTM Toolset for ArcGIS 10 was created and posted online. The toolset for version 9.3 was also revised as of 5/2011.
-- Without conducting a formal survey of RTM users, it's difficult to know exactly how many organizations/agencies are using RTM on a daily basis. But, we know of at least 12 U.S. police agencies that are currently using RTM for crime analysis. If you are one of them, or if you know of others, we'd like to hear from you about your work.
***Recent Book Chapter***
-- Kennedy, L. W. & Caplan, J. M. (2011). Risk Terrains and Crime Emergence. In J. McGloin, C. Sullivan, and L. W. Kennedy. When Crime Appears: The Role of Crime Emergence. NY: Taylor & Francis.
-- Rusnak, D., L.W. Kennedy, J. Caplan and I. Eldivan. (forthcoming). Analyzing Terrorism Using Spatial Analysis Techniques : A Case Study of Turkish Cities” in Cynthia Lum and L.W.Kennedy (editors), Evidence-Based Counterterrorism Policy. NY: Springer.
***Supplementary Material***
-- The “Risk Terrain Modeling Compendium” was produced by the Rutgers Center on Public Security and is available for free download on the RTM website. The *RTM Compendium* presents applications and concepts of RTM that were not already discussed at length in the RTM Manual.
-- Several new research briefs and case studies have been posted online, including one that applies RTM to Aggravated Assaults in Newark, NJ. A direct link to the brief is:
http://www.rutgerscps.org/rtm/AggAssaultRTM_CaseStudy_Brief.pdf
***Dissemination of The RTM Approach***
-- The Risk Terrain Modeling Workshop Webinar—a 12 module, 30-day online self-guided course, with two live instructional webcasts, launched in Spring 2011 and has had over 35 registrants in just two course offerings to-date. Another workshop will likely be scheduled sometime in 2012.
***Forthcoming workshops and conference presentations***
-- 16-Hour workshop, "Risk Terrain Modeling for Spatial Risk Assessment." National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Mapping and Analysis for Public Safety (MAPS) Program Eleventh Annual Crime Mapping Research Conference – Preconference Training, Miami, FL, October 2011.
-- 3-Hour workshop, "Risk Terrain Modeling for Spatial Risk Assessment." International Association of Crime Analysts Annual Meeting, Hyannis, MA, September 2011.
-- There will be a special session on RTM for the upcoming meetings of the American Society of Criminology (ASC) in Washington, DC in November. The sessions are titled: “Applications of Risk Terrain Modeling and a Live Demo”, “Ecological Studies and Crime Forecasting”, “When Crime Appears: The Role of Emergence”, and “Evidence-Based Counterterrorism (II): Data and Methods for Evaluation”. We hope to see you there.
-- Check out the RTM-related presentations by a variety of experts from around the world at the upcoming IACA conference in Cape Cod (http://www.iaca.net/conference.asp); at the Upcoming NIJ MAPS conference in Miami, FL (http://www.crimemapping2011.com/); and at the ASC conference in Washington, DC (http://asc41.com/annualmeeting.htm).
***Until our next (infrequent) update, check out www.riskterrainmodeling.com for events, news, publications, research briefs, case studies, and more regarding RTM. Also, send us your work to post or add links at www.riskterrainmodeling.com.
***We welcome your feedback! Please tell us how you are using RTM and/or if you have any constructive feedback. Send a brief or lengthy email to rutge...@gmail.com. We look forward to hearing from you.
Respectfully,
Les Kennedy and Joel Caplan
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