Identifying Hot Spots Using ArcPro

This webinar will focus on conceptual and practical skills for identifying hot spots using ArcPro. The webinar will discuss how the combination of data recording practices, ArcPro tool availability, crime science research, and the presenter’s prior experience with hot spots policing initiatives impacts hot spot identification.

Dr. Cory P. Haberman is an associate professor in the School of Criminal Justice and director of the Institute of Crime Science at the University of Cincinnati. He received a PhD from Temple University’s Department of Criminal Justice in 2015, where he worked with a research team and the Philadelphia Police Department on several hot spots policing projects as well as developing the agency’s analytical capacity. Since then, Dr. Haberman has provided technical assistance and evaluation services to aid agencies across the country in implementing crime analysis and crime reduction strategies, such as hot spots policing, focused deterrence, and community-problem oriented policing. In 2019, Dr. Haberman was selected by the National Institute of Justice to be a LEADS academic based on his commitment to evidence-based policing. Dr. Haberman was also awarded the American Society of Criminology, Division of Policing’s 2019 Early Career Award for his contributions to research on policing.