This is my second and most recent poster presented at the Race Ethnicity and Place Conference in Binghamton, New York in October of 2010, as well as at the Association of American Geographers Regional Conference at Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois. It is a beautiful poster illustrating crime trends throughout the demolition of the Robert Taylor Homes. My argument is: while one goal of public housing transformation was for the purpose of Situational Crime Prevention, where local governing agencies attempt to eliminate crime by changing the situation in which it occurs. In this case they demolished severely distressed high-rise public housing projects. However as my research suggests, crime was not actually eliminated and rather it moved to neighboring police districts with the housing developments former tenants. Stay tuned for my earlier poster presented at the University of Wisconsin- Eau Claire Student Research Day, which won a fourth place award. Also, stay tuned for my future developments of this project. I am currently working on getting the crime data maps into a much more concise, understandable format. Right now, they are too much of a data overload.
