Police investigations of serial murder, rape and arson can be assisted by a geographic perspective on the spatial behavior that led to the crime scene. For any crime to occur there must have been an intersection in both time and place between the of
Clues derived from the locations connected to violent repeat criminal offenders, such as serial murderers, rapists, and arsonists, can be of significant assistance to law enforcement. Such information allows police departments to focus their activit
Strategic information management system used to assist in investigations into serial crimes First commercial software created by Kim D. Rossmo Analyzes crime locations to determine the most probable area of offender residence.
Rossmo's formula is a geographic profiling formula to predict where a serial criminal lives. The formula was produced by the mathematician Kim Rossmo. Formula Imagine a map with an overlaying grid of little squares named sectors. A sector Si,j is th
