“…Introducing students to GIS methodologies can further enhance their ability to visualize and solve complex issues (Watkins, 2001). Potential issues to explore cover a vast range, for example, child maltreatment patterns based on neighborhoods (Ernst, 2000;Frieshler, Lery, Gruenewald & Chow, 2006), housing patterns of persons with disabilities (Wolf-Branigin, 2002), or adult addiction epidemiology (Grant, Martinez & White, 1998;Gerwe, 2000;Maxwell, 2000). Empirical research has increasingly shown the significance of context in social problems, thereby pointing to a need for better understanding determinants such as place and time or community and neighborhood effects on outcomes for various populations.…”