Crime Geography

Course Main Objective

Connect between crime and geography through merging the concepts of criminology along with the spatial perspective which geography entails to study criminal behavior and the relation of which to the spatial dimensions and its impact on committing or even helping committing crime.

Course Learning Outcomes

• 1. Knowledge and Comprehension
• 1.1 Explain the concept of geography of crime and the affecting factors geographically. 
• 2. Skills
• 2.1 Differentiate among different crimes spatially. 
• 2.2 Use the quantitative methods, maps and GIS in analyzing spatial information of crimes.
• 3. Values
• 3.1 Appreciate teamwork in studying crimes on geographically various spatial levels to serve community.

Course Content:

•  Essence of crime geography and its relation to the other sciences.
•  Evolution of crime geography.
•  Approaches of crime geography and its relation to the other sciences.
•  Obstacles to crime evolution.
•  Factors affecting crime geography.
•  Relation between land use and its impact on crime and its type.
•  Crime trends in the modern age and its dimensions nationally, regionally and internationally.
•  Change of crime data in space and time.
•  The spatial and time variation of crime: spatial dimensions of crime.
•  Difference of crime between urban and rural areas- reasons and factors.
•  Use of modern geographic applications in studying crime geography.
•  Applied models of crime geography in KSA.

Textbook (s)

- Herbert, David. (2020). The Geography of Urban Crime. Lyla Za'zou' trans. Arab Scientific Publishers, Beirut.
- Zahra, Muhammad.M. (1995). Crime Geography: Scope, Approaches, Content. The Scientific Symposium on Crime Geography. The Egyptian Geographical Society, Cairo.
- Jaber, Muhammad.M. (1987). The Geographic Dimensions of Crime Phenomenon in Gulf Cities. Institute of Arab Research and Studies, Cairo.
- Meagan Elizabeth Cahill: (2005), Geographies of Urban Crime: An Interurban Study of Crime in Nashville, TN; Portland, OR; and Tucson, AZ . March.

Course ID: GEOG 453