3 Worksheet

Excellent. You have worked through the steps in this computer tutorial on downloading and mapping crime data. Now, as a group, conduct the following analysis:

3.1 Part I: Camden and Islington

  1. Using what you have learnt in the computer tutorial, create two maps for Camden and Islington. The first map is to show anti-social behaviour and the second map should show theft from person.
  2. There are a number of crime hot spots for anti-social behaviour and theft from person that appear near UCL, particularly around Kings Cross Station. Visit one of these areas and take note of the features that distinguish them from nearby areas with lower crime rates.
  3. You may use 1-2 sides in your field notebook for your individual observations. If you want to, you can take photographs to add to your worksheet submission. Please avoid photographs that clearly feature individual people.

This part of the assignment focuses on anti-social behaviour and theft from person in Camden and Islington as a whole.

For your visit: make sure that you visit as a group during the scheduled Friday afternoon slot and follow advice in the risk assessment. Check the weather forecast and prepare accordingly.

3.2 Part II: Your allocated street

  1. Using the full crime data set, zoom in on the street you have been allocated. What is the dominant type of crime on this street and its surrounding area in November 2023?
  2. Revisit the data.police.uk website and create a map for all crime around your street in November 2024 and November 2023. As there may be very few or no crimes in your allocated street, you can zoom out a little to incorporate surrounding streets. Do the patterns and dominant crime types change over the two years?
  3. Given your knowledge of your street and your observations of the crime hotspots around UCL and Kings Cross, what other existing open datasets could be useful for researching crime in London? Please provide references to the datasets.

This part of the assignment focuses on all types of crime in your allocated street.

If your allocated street falls outside, or on the administrative borders of, Camden and Islington but you would like to incorporate a road network in your map, you can download the full road network for London here as a zip file: [Link].

Please do note that this file is significantly larger than the roads file that we have used so far, so you may encounter some performance issues.

3.3 Worksheet submission

Please submit your answers to the questions above in the form of a short group report. The report should include:

  • No more than 500 words.
  • Maximum 4 maps, and, if using, a maximum of 2 photographs.
  • Your file should be submitted by the allocated team leader by noon on Monday 24 March, using the Turnitin link on Moodle GEOG0014 Worksheet 4 London mapping.
  • Be sure to include references and a bibliography in your worksheet.
  • When creating your maps, consider incorporating essential elements such as a legend, title, north arrow, and scale bar.
  • Please submit the worksheet as a docx or pdf document.
  • One submission per group. Please follow the guidelines for group submissions.

3.4 Further questions

Any questions about these tasks please use the W08 forum on Moodle. That is it for this week’s Geography in the Field!