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I am pleased to announce that CACS has received an award from the Bureau of Justice Statitics (2011-BJ-CX-K006) to study Criminal Victimization of Nevada Residents. The study will focus on estimating the nature and extent of non-fatal violent victimization experienced by Nevada residents in 2011. Findings will be compared to estimates produced from the 2008 Nevada victimization survey as well as to national victimization estimates.

I am also pleased to announce the recent completion of the Center's newest State Data Brief: The Impact of Foreclosures on Neighborhood Crime in Nevada. This State Data Brief provides an examination of foreclosures in Nevada and the impact of these events on crime in Nevada neighborhoods. The distribution of foreclosures across neighborhoods, the characteristics of high foreclosure neighborhoods, and the impact of foreclosures on neighborhood crime between 2006 and 2009 are examined. The report can be accessed by clicking here.

Finally, Crime Mapping: A Journal of Research and Practice is currently accepting manuscript submissions for its next issue, a special issue on Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM). Submissions considered for publication in this special issue could focus on a variety of topics, including (but not limited to): (a) the use of RTM to forecast various crime events; (b) the practical application of RTM outside the law enforcement setting; (c) assessing the impact of interventions to reduce crime risk based on RTM; (d) assessing the predictive validity of RTM; (e) assessing the selection criteria used in determining which risk layers to include in RTM; (f) the use of RTM to advance our understanding of the role that place-based context plays in crime forecasting; (g) testing the statistical power of RTM across different crime context; (h) measuring/operationalizing mitigating risk factors; and (i) determining the methods for and impact of weighting risk factors that are used to create RTM risk layers. All submitted manuscripts should contain an appropriate discussion of relevant implications for criminal mapping research and practice. For more information on the journal's submission guidelines. Click here.

Timothy C. Hart, Ph.D.
Director, Center for the Analysis of Crime Statistics