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I'm looking into some of the algorithms on geographic profiling, and though I see reference to a number of data sets in papers I've read, I can't find any data online for serial criminals (specifically, I've seen reference to sets on serial rapists with ten or more crimes). Can anyone point me to some such datasets? Ideally, it would be lists of lat/long coordinates of the crimes committed in order, with an additional data point for the criminal's residence during the time he/she committed the crimes. |
Which papers are you talking about? Have you tried contacting the authors of those papers?
You could get some data directly from certain city websites. I know New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago do near real time reporting of crime that you could scrape from. That wouldn't really get you for the serial perpetrator, but you might be able to detect hot zones for certain types of crimes. There are FBI reports lile http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/serial-murder and http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications that might be helpful as well. Data.gov might have some data worth combing through as well: http://explore.data.gov/browse?q=crime&x=0&y=0