Indication: Professor Cláudio Chaves Beato Filho – Department of Sociology and Anthropology – Faculty of Philosophy and Human Sciences/UFMG
Period: April 12 to 26, 2007
Spencer Chainey is Director of Geographic Information Science at the Jill Dando Institute of Criminology at University College London. The Jill Dando Institute is the world’s first institute dedicated specifically to reducing crime through teaching, research, consulting, public policy analysis, and through the dissemination of evidence-based information on crime reduction.
Spencer is a pioneer in the field of crime mapping (working with law enforcement, community safety partnerships, national law enforcement agencies and law enforcement departments in the US, Canada, Brazil, Australia and New York). Zealand). Prior to joining JDI, Spencer worked for several years in the private sector and British government with Geographical Information Systems (GIS), community safety and information sharing, housing development and regeneration projects (1996- 2003). Spencer was Chair of the United Kingdom Association for Geographic Information (AGI). He holds a BA in Geography from Kingston University, an MA in GIS from the University of Edinburgh and is currently studying for his PhD at Univeristy College London.
His work in crime mapping and analysis, information sharing and social exclusion analysis are recognized and used as examples by various bodies (among them the British Cabinet – Social Exclusion Unit and the US National Institute of Justice).
His work is widely published, and includes the following publications: “Crime Mapping: Improving Performance”; “Revision of GIS-based information sharing systems” (“A review of GIS-based information sharing systems”); and “GIS and crime mapping”, co-written with Jerry Ratcliffe.