Title :
WebCAT: the design and implementation of the Web-based crime analysis toolkit
Author :
Hawkins, C.M. ; Pittman, Justin D. ; Prats, Francis B. ; Wheeler, William E. ; Brown, Donald ; Dalton, Jason ; Johnstone, Butch
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Syst. & Inf. Eng., Virginia Univ., Charlottesville, VA, USA
Abstract :
Based on its recent studies, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) identifies information exchange as the most vital need of law enforcement agencies around the United States. Research by the Virginia Institute for Justice Information Systems (VIJIS) at the University of Virginia has also revealed the need for statistical analysis of criminal incident data. In order to address the need for information sharing and cross-jurisdictional analysis between different law enforcement agencies in a given region, VIJIS in conjunction with the Systems and Information Engineering (SIE) Department at the University of Virginia authorized the development of the Web crime analysis toolkit (WebCAT). This application integrates an XML-driven database along with a geographic information system (GIS) and other analysis tools through a free, Web-based interface.
Keywords :
Internet; XML; computer crime; geographic information systems; software tools; statistical analysis; user interfaces; GIS; Web-based crime analysis toolkit; Web-based interface; WebCAT; XML-driven database; criminal incident data; cross-jurisdictional analysis; geographic information system; information exchange; information sharing; law enforcement agencies; statistical analysis; Application software; Databases; Geographic Information Systems; Information analysis; Law enforcement; Pattern analysis; Performance analysis; Software tools; Statistical analysis; Systems engineering and theory;
Conference_Titel :
Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium, 2003 IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-9744559-0-3
DOI :
10.1109/SIEDS.2003.158029
