A New Orleans State of Crime: Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Shifting Homicide Patterns In Post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, LA

Dubbed the "most murderous" and "deadliest" city in the United States during 2006, 2007 and 2008, New Orleans has wrestled with crime and murder since its founding in 1718. Following Hurricane Katrina the city saw an increase in the murder rate despite a sharp decrease in population. The focus of this project was to map homicide data trends in the city of New Orleans over a period of seven years, 2002 to 2008, and compare spatial and temporal patterns via GIS. NOPD homicide location data were geocoded and analyzed in ESRI's ArcGIS geospatial software. Methodologies of hotspot detection included point maps, choropleth graduated color maps, and quartic kernel density maps. The project's goal was to not only detect hotspots, but to create a synoptic view of shifting homicide trends throughout the city of New Orleans, highlighting the impact of Hurricane Katrina.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Geography

Year

2009

Author dc:creator

• Childs, Lauren

Contributors dc:contributor

• Lowry, James
• Yaukey, Peter
• Jiang, Ziying

• Crime Analysis
• Crime Mapping
• Hotspot Mapping
• Geographic Information Systems
• Hurricane Katrina
• New Orleans

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/974

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-1955