Worksheet

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

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 note down the features that distinguish them from their surrounding lower crime areas.
  3. You may use 1-2 pages 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.

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.

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 2021?
  2. Revisit the data.police.uk website and create a map for all crime around your street in November 2022 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 differ over the course of the years?
  3. Given your knowledge of your street and your observations of the crime hotspots around UCL and Kings Cross what other existing data sets might be useful as part of research into investigating crime in London?

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.

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.
  • Do not forget to include references.

You can find the submission link for this final worksheet task on Moodle:

  • One submission per group. Make sure to include the group work coversheet in your submission and you follow the guidelines for group submissions.
  • Your file should be submitted anonymously by the allocated team leader by noon on Monday 18 March, using the Turnitin link on the course Moodle page GEOG0014 Worksheet 4 London mapping.
  • Please submit the worksheet as a Word or PDF document, no larger than 40 MB.
  • Do check that the file has uploaded and displays correctly.

Only one member of each group should submit the report, following the instructions on Moodle.

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!