Monday, February 22, 2010

Researchers team up with the LAPD to model spikes in crime.

Sometimes a good model of social processes can help us to recognize different types of phenomena that otherwise look like the same thing. That's really important if you are trying to design social control responses to, say, crime. Here's a example of something that combines GIS, mathematical models, social observation, and organizational thinking.

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