From Crime Analysis to Homeland Security: A Role for Neighborhood Profiling?

Using Casualty Assessment and Weighted Hit Rates to Calibrate Spatial Patterns of Boko Haram Insurgency for Emergency Response Preparedness

“…to offer a strategic review of neighbourhoods and to identify potential terrorist cells (Ashby et al, 2008). To the best of our knowledge there is no evidence in academic and policy literature, of the application of geodemographic segmentation for profiling and mapping terrorism.…”

Governing the geocoded world: Environmentality and the politics of location platforms

“…These systems are built upon the sociological assumption that location, particularly where we live, signals social and cultural characteristics of a given population. The origins of geodemographic systems could be traced back to the end of the 19th century with the surveys of life and labour in London (see Burrows and Gane, 2006;Parker et al, 2007), though its discursive foundations are to be found in the 1920s with the Chicago School of Sociology's ideas of 'urban ecology' as the city's principle of socio-spatial organization (see Ashby et al, 2008; Burrows and Gane, 2006;Uprichard et al, 2009). Modern computer-based geodemographics did not appear until the early 1970s, though.…”