Preface -- An overview of crime simulation / Lin Liu and John Eck -- Section I. The role of simulation in crime research -- Chapter I. The need for systematic replication and tests of validity in simulation / -- Michael Townsley and Shane Johnson -- Chapter II. Realistic spatial backcloth is not that important in agent based simulation research: an illustration from simulating perceptual deterrence / Henk Elffers and Pieter Van Baal -- Chapter III. Visualization of criminal activity in an urban population / Alex Breuer, Joshua J. Hursey, Tonya Stroman, and Arvind Verma -- Chapter IV. GIS-based simulation and visualization of urban landuse change / Md Mahbubur R. Meenar --

Section II. Streets, networks, and crime distribution -- Chapter V. Modelling pedestrian movement to measure on-street crime risk / -- Spencer Chainey and Jake Desyllas -- Chapter VI. Core models for state-of-the-art microscopic traffic simulation and key elements for applications / Heng Wei -- Chapter VII. Simulating urban dynamics using cellular automata / Xia Li -- Chapter VIII. Space-time measures of crime diffusion / Youngho Kim --

Section III. Crime event and pattern simulations -- Chapter IX. Synthesis over analysis: towards an ontology for volume crime simulation / Daniel J. Birks, Susan Donkin, and Melanie Wellsmith -- Chapter X. Offender mobility and crime pattern formation from first principles / P. Jeffrey Brantingham and George Tita -- Chapter XI. Crime simulation using GIS and artificial intelligent agents / Xuguang Wang, Lin Liu, and John Eck -- Chapter XII. Characterizing the spatio-temporal aspects of routine activities and the geographic distribution of street robbery / Elizabeth Groff -- Chapter XIII. Mastermind: computational modeling and simulation of spatiotemporal aspects of crime in urban environments / P.L. Brantingham, U. Glasser, P. Jackson, B. Kinney, and M. Vajihollahi -- Chapter XIV. The simulation of the journey to residential burglary / Karen L. Hayslett-McCall, Fang Qiu, Kevin M. Curtin, Bryan Chastain, Janis Schubert, and Virginia Carver -- Chapter XV. Simulating crime against properties using swarm intelligence and social networks / Vasco Furtado, Adriano Melo, Andre L.V. Coelho, Ronaldo Menezes, and Mairon Belchior -- Chapter XVI. FraudSim: simulating fraud in a public delivery program / Yushim Kim and Ningchuan Xiao --

Section IV. Criminal justice operation simulations -- Chapter XVII. Development of an intelligent patrol routing system using GIS and computer simulations / Joseph Szakas, Christian Trefftz, Raul Ramirez, and Eric Jefferis -- Chapter XVIII. Drug law enforcement in an agent-based model: simulating the disruption to street-level drug markets / Anne Dray, Lorraine Mazerolle, Pascal Perez, and Alison Ritter -- Chapter XIX. Using varieties of simulation modeling for criminal justice system analysis / Azadeh Alimadad, Peter Borwein, Patricia Brantingham, Paul Brantingham, Vahid Dabbaghian-Abdoly, Ron Ferguson, Ellen Fowler, Amir H. Ghaseminejad, Christopher Giles, Jenny Li, Nahanni Pollard, Alexander Rutherford, and Alexa van der Waall --

Section V. Conclusion -- Chapter XX. Varieties of artificial crime analysis: purpose, structure, and evidence in crime simulations / John Eck and Lin Liu -- Compilation of references -- About the contributors -- Index.