LATEST NEWS - Forensics Website Launched

The University of Malta has launched the Insitute of Forensic Studies Website

http://www.um.edu.mt/forensic

LATEST NEWS - MACA to be Launched

www.macamalta.org

Have you seen this Person?

Over 70 Missing Persons in Malta!

Click on the image below to review the list of missing persons

FrontexWatch Malta Record year for Illegal Immigration CrimeMalta is now mapping the incidences of illegal immigration experienced by the Maltese Islands. The first map shows updated information of the 2008 sightings, landings, composition and specificities of each case. Click on the image or go the the Menu - Crime - FrontexWatch link

Criminologists and Society's Safety Parole, Prisons and Offenders Criminologists have reacted to recent media coverage of the Maltese crime situation, the introduction of parole and society's safety. Click on the image to access the Times of Malta report dated 27th September 2008.

RISC Rates League for Local Councils - 2007

Grand Total Residential Vehicle

RISC Rates for 2007 are now available through a league table of Local Councils. Leagues can be viewed for: Grand Total Offences Theft from Residences Theft Of and From Vehicles

RISC Model Maps - 2007

Risk Maps for the 2007 have been produced. View how each District and Council fares in relation to the others in terms of National crime rates. Data is available for Grand Total Offences, Thefts from Residences and Theft Of and From Vehicles. Districts Map 2007 Local Councils Map 2007

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Background

The CrimeMalta Website brings you real crime analysis based on 10 years of research. In a study initiated in 1997, crimes from 1950 to date have been geocoded and digitised to help create analytical tables and charts that are easy to understand and review.

Using state-of-the-art technology (GIS - Geographical or Spatial Information Systems), crime reported to the Malta Police Force since 1998 have been mapped based on the offence location. This process enables spatio-temporal analysis of crimes in Malta by the location they occur in, when they are committed and the potential link to the place they occur in.

A Web-GIS of Maltese Crime will enable users to browse and print maps of crime at different spatial layers such as districts and local councils as based on the NUTS (administrative units classification) nomenclature. Smaller units have been analysed foremost amongst which are enumeration areas as identified by Census.

Another feature developed in this site concerns the CRISOLA and RISC Mrodels, the former giving methodological substance to crime and space, whilst the dynamic RISC Model enables the creation of a league table of local councils as they experience offence reporting over time. Outputs at annual and monthly by crime categories will be reviewed. More detailed RISC information is available on request.

In addition, statistical and spatio-statistical outputs will be generated. The map below shows such a map based on crime locations reported in the Grand Harbour and the results of a method called clustering analysis that shows the major hotspots of crime in the region.

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