Systematic review of literature: exploitation of information and GIS technologies applied to identify criminal patterns

Abstract

The systematic review of literature (SLR) is an article which synthesizes the available evidence around certain research questions, addresses quantitative and qualitative aspects of primary studies with the purpose of summarizing existing information on a particular topic.
A systematic review of the literature on the integration of information exploitation processes with GIS technologies is presented, and it evaluates their application for the discovery of criminal patterns.
The construction of this SRL is based on the method proposed by Kitchenham.
The results are presented by considering the three stages of the method in which the selected primary studies are explained in relation to the research questions that guide the study.
The findings show the scarce application of the integration of both technologies as a strategy to reduce criminal risks.