The contributions in this book demonstrate the important role that crime maps have begun to play in crime prevention theory and applications. The individual chapters provide information concerning: (1) the geoarchive as an information foundation for community policing; (2) using geographical tools with interagency work groups to develop and implement crime control strategies; (3) crime mapping and information sharing in police departments; (4) geographic information systems and crime analysis; (5) comparative perceptions of dangerous places; (6) mapping gangs and gang violence; (7) mapping crime for analytic purposes; (8) mapping out repeat-address burglary alarms and burglaries; (9) artificial neural networks and crime mapping; (10) SMART mapping for law enforcement settings: integrating GIS and GPS for dynamic, near-real-time applications and analysis; and (11) mapping theories with data. Notes, references, tables, figures, appendix, index