AAG 2011 - CALL FOR PAPERS SPECIAL SESSION(S): Crime Modeling and Mapping LOCATION AND DATES Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting April 12-16, 2011, Seattle, WA, USA DESCRIPTION Spatial crime analysis started mostly by geographers in the early 1970’s. Environmental criminology, which was developed in the early 1980’s, gave spatial crime analysis its theoretical foundation. The concurrent rise of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) coupled with the development of spatial crime analysis software programs (e.g., CrimeStat) led to a powerful suite of spatial analysis and visualization tools that allowed to quickly analyzing large amounts of crime incident data. As a result spatial crime analysis became increasingly popular as a practical tool for law enforcement and as a research and teaching tool in geography, criminal justice and other related programs. Today many crime analysts are geographers. It is thus important to recognize, given the maturation of GIS and spatial statistics, that it is time to demonstrate the importance of geographic principles and theory that underpin those tools and the interpretation of the results. To date, more and more law enforcement agencies hire geographers and crime analysts and criminal justice programs around the country respond to this demand by offering new courses/programs in this new subfield. Conferences and workshops to exchange ideas and to further the education are being offered on a regular basis. User groups are being established and research is being promoted through new publication outlets and funding opportunities from different agencies such as the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) or the National Science Foundation (NSF). Sessions organized at the 2011 AAG will further the exchange of ideas and will present new research, methods, and applications in the modeling and mapping of crime. Appropriate topics include, but are not limited to: Geographic Profiling Sex Offender Residency Restriction Laws Traffic Crash Analysis Spatial and Temporal Crime Analysis Micro-Spatial Crime Analysis Hot Spot Analysis Crime Forecasting Spatial Crime Theories Simulation Modeling Relationship between Foreclosure and Crime Crime and Place Spatial Analysis of Gang Activities Terrorism 3-D Crime Modeling All participants must first register individually for the conference on the AAG Website (www.aag.org). Upon registration you will be given a Presenter Identification Number (PIN). Send the PIN and a copy of your abstract and key words with your interest in participating in this special session to Michael Leitner (mleitne@lsu.edu) no later than October 13th, 2010. ORGANIZER Michael Leitner Department of Geography and Anthropology Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Tel: (225) 578-2963 Email: mleitne@lsu.edu TIMELINE September 20th, 2010: First call for papers. October 13th, 2010: PIN, abstract and key word submission to session organizer Michael Leitner (mleitne@lsu.edu). October 20th, 2010: AAG registration deadline. Sessions submitted to AAG for approval. April 12th -16th, 2011: AAG meeting, Seattle, WA, USA.