Does Digital Crime Mapping Work? Insights on Engagement, Empowerment & Transparency | i... - 0 views
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simonmart on 19 Jun 12In 2008, police forces across the United Kingdom (UK) launched an online crime mapping tool "to help improve the credibility and confidence that the public had in police-recorded crime levels, address perceptions of crime, promote community engagement and empowerment, and support greater public service transparency and accountability." How effective has this large scale digital mapping effort been? "There continues to be a lack of evidence that publishing crime statistics using crime mapping actually supports improvements in community engagement and empowerment." This blog post evaluates the project's impact by summarizing the findings from a recent peer-reviewed study entitled: "Engagement, Empowerment and Transparency: Publishing Crime Statistics using Online Crime Mapping." Insights from this study have important implications for crisis mapping projects.