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Determining an Optimal Police Search Area for a Serial Criminal

Award Information

Award #
2005-IJ-CX-K036
Funding Category
Continuation
Location
Awardee County
Baltimore
Congressional District
Status
Closed
Funding First Awarded
2005
Total funding (to date)
$49,961

Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2005, $24,995)

The Applied Mathematics Laboratory of Towson University will conduct a research project for the National Institute of Justice. The purpose of this research is to develop a method that can look at a series of crimes committed by the same offender, and then estimate the likely location of the offender's 'base of operation.' The main idea is to create new techniques manifested in new software, which primarily uses center of minimum distance including impedance effects on center of minimum distance and the expression of this center in an area.

nca/ncf

Date Created: September 15, 2005