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Advanced GIS and Crime Analysis Violence against Women in West Bengal, India
Advanced GIS and Crime Analysis explores the existing spatial variability of crime committed against women in West Bengal and steadily excavates the underlying determinants accountable for specific crimes against women. The book applies GIS technologies to visualise complex crime patterns over space and suggests specific measures to curb oppression.
The book applies statistical methods and GIS techniques to visualise the vulnerable areas of crime against women in West Bengal and critically discusses emerging criminogenic issues with respect to theoretical understanding and immediate situations. The determination of the most significant crime hotspots, deliberation of substantial facts through a variety of collective socio-economic as well as environmental perspectives, and suggestive measures will assist law enforcement officials, practitioners, and policymakers in adopting immediate, effective measures.
Advanced GIS and Crime Analysis will be beneficial for students of criminology, research scholars, practitioners, urban planners, and policymakers to understand the complex crime patterns that exist in West Bengal.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Flesh Trading: Network of Organised Crime of Trafficking in Women and Minor Girls in West Bengal
Chapter 3 The Modern Revenge Strategy of Acid Attacks against Women in West Bengal: Spatial Extension and Underlying Socio-psychological Milieu
Chapter 4 Rape: Brutality against Women in West Bengal: A Geospatial Understanding
Chapter 5 Domestic Violence against Women in West Bengal: Understanding Socio-psychological Milieu
Chapter 6 Application of Geovisual Analytic Tool for Space-Time Visualisation of Crime Compositions and Delineation of Future Potential Areas of Crime Using Statistical Techniques
Chapter 7 Discussions and Conclusion
Biography
Priyanka Biswas holds a PhD from Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India. Her areas of research interest are criminological studies, especially crime against women, urban environment and crime, and statistical modelling. She emphasises multidisciplinary efforts to visualise crime scenarios and evaluate policy-level change to make society crime-free.
Nilanjana Das Chatterjee is Professor and Head of the Department of Geography at Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India. Her principal areas of research interest are environmental issues in geography, criminological analysis, and criminal psychology, with special reference to gender, urban environment, and associated socio-economic milieu. She emphasises the use of evaluation strategies to develop community-level awareness and support policy-level change to enhance the quality of society.
"These days, we talk about our giant leaps forward in the realms of science and development, engage in endless discussions about how AI will change our world. But one thing never changes: the women continue to get battered by the drunken husbands or the panchayat bigwigs for not following their norms. The forms and the extent seem to get bigger each day. This important study “Advanced GIS and Crime Analysis: Violence against Women in West Bengal, India” by Dr Nilanjana Chatterjee, HoD and Professor of Geography, Vidyasagar University and her PhD scholar Priyanka Biswas will unravel many unknown facts about the crime and its extent. This book seamlessly explored the existing spatial variability of crime committed against women in West Bengal and steadily excavated the underlying determinants accountable for specific crime against women. This book competently considered both the physical as well as socio-economic environment to understand the situational circumstances and critically discussed emerging criminogenic issues.
This book applied GIS technologies, to visualize complex crime patterns over space and suggested specific measures to curb oppression." - Anirban Choudhury, Consulting Editor, TV 9 Bangla"This books comes to us at a crucial juncture in time - crime against women is on the rise and we are struggling to provide safety to women in public spaces, workplace and even their own homes. The judicious mix of qualitative, statistical and geospatial techniques in addressing the issues as a challenging research problem brings to us, a substantial contribution to geographic literature as socio-cultural, economic and spatial analysis has come together in this study of West Bengal, the land of the iconic Durga, symbolising feminine power. The book brings us face to face with the age-old social realities that we have not been able to wish away even in the cyber-real present-day context." - Dr. Sumana Bandyopadhyay, Professor, Department of Geography, University of Calcutta
