Ned Levine, PhD
8422 Bluegate Street
Houston, TX 77025
(713) 592-8021
DEGREES
PhD in Social Psychology-Sociology. London School of Economics and Political Science. 1967.
BA in Psychology (Distinction). University of California, Berkeley. 1962.
EMPLOYMENT
Director. Ned Levine & Associates: Los Angeles, Honolulu, Washington, DC, Houston. 1977-present.
Transportation Safety Coordinator, Houston-Galveston Area Council, Houston, TX. April 2001-February 2007.
Associate Researcher and Lecturer, Urban Planning Program, Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of California at Los Angeles. 1980-1994.
Member of the Technical Staff, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA. 1981 to 1983.
Project Director, Institute for Social Science Research, University of California at Los Angeles. 1977-1980.
Visiting Associate Professor, Institute of Population Studies, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. 1973-1976.
Assistant/Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Brunel University. Uxbridge, Middlesex, England. 1969-1973.
Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Middle East Technical University. Ankara, Turkey. 1967-1969.
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Enfield College of Technology (now Middlesex University). Enfield, Middlesex, England. 1964-1967.
AWARDS
Certificate of Appreciation for Outstanding Dedication to Traffic Safety and Injury Prevention for the Houston-Galveston Area and Texas. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Region VI. 2007.
Certificate of Appreciation for Service to the Houston-Galveston Area Council. 2007.
Vice Presidential Award (National Partnership for Reinventing Government) for contribution to the National Spatial Data Infrastructure Demonstration Project. 2000.
PUBLICATIONS AND PREPARED MANUSCRIPTS
Criminal Justice & Community Security
Ned Levine (2014). CrimeStat IV: A Spatial Statistics Program for the Analysis of Crime Incident Locations (version 4.0). Ned Levine & Associates, Houston, TX.; National Institute of Justice, Washington, DC. July. Documentation includes 32 chapters (of which Dr. Levine wrote 27), 3 appendices, two CrimeStat Libraries, and 9 sample datasets. Program and documentation are found at:
Rohit Shenoi, Ned Levine, Marcella Donaruma-Kwoh, Lyn Ma, J. Hunter, & Angelo Giardino. (2013). “The spatial relationship of child homicides to community social factors in Harris County, Texas”. Sage Open, 3 (April), 1-14.
Ned Levine and Patsy Lee (2013). “Crime travel of offenders by gender and age in Manchester, England”. In Michael Leitner (ed), Crime Modeling and Mapping Using Geospatial Technologies, Springer. 145-178.
Abstract presented in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Women’s Issues in Transportation.Volume I: Conference Overview and Plenary Papers, 2011, 29.
Ned Levine and Phil Canter (2011). “Linking origins with destinations for DWI Motor Vehicle Crashes: An application of crime travel demand modeling”. Crime Mapping, 3, 7-41.
Ned Levine and Richard Block (2011). “Bayesian Journey to crime estimation: an improvement in geographic profiling methodology”. The Professional Geographer, 63(2), 213-229.
Ned Levine (2010). CrimeStat III: A Spatial Statistics Program for the Analysis of Crime Incident Locations (version 3.3). Ned Levine & Associates, Houston, TX.; National Institute of Justice, Washington, DC. July. Documentation includes two update chapters to version 3.3, chapters 1-17 plus appendices and sample data sets. Program and documentation are found at:
Ned Levine (2009). “Introduction to the special issue on Bayesian journey to crime modeling”. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 6 (3), 167-185.
Ned Levine and Patsy Lee (2009). “Bayesian Journey-to-Crime Modeling of Juvenile and Adult Offenders by Gender in Manchester”. Journal of Investigative Psychology and Offender Profiling, 6 (3), 237-251.
Shashi Shekhar, Mete Celik, Betsy George, Pradeep Mohan, Ned Levine, Ronald E. Wilson, and Pronab Mohanty (2009). “Spatial analysis of crime report databases”. Computer Society of India. August. .
Ned Levine (2009). CrimeStat III: A Spatial Statistics Program for the Analysis of Crime Incident Locations (version 3.2). Ned Levine & Associates, Houston, TX.; National Institute of Justice, Washington, DC. June. Archived at
Ned Levine (2008). “The ‘hottest’ part of a crime hotspot: Comments on “The utility of hotspot mapping for predicting spatial patterns of crime” by Spencer Chainey, Lisa Tompson, and Sebastian Uhlig”. Security Journal, 21, 295-302.
Ned Levine (2008). “CrimeStat: a spatial statistical program for the analysis of crime incidents”. S. Shekhar and H. Xiong (eds), Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science. Springer. 187-193.
Ned Levine (2007), “Crime travel demand and bank robberies: Using CrimeStat III to model bank robbery trips”. Social Science Computer Review, 25(2), 239-258.
Ned Levine (2007). CrimeStat III: A Spatial Statistics Program for the Analysis of Crime Incident Locations (version 3.1). Ned Levine & Associates, Houston, TX.; National Institute of Justice, Washington, DC. March. Archived at
Ned Levine (2006). “Crime mapping and the CrimeStat program. Geographical Analysis. 38 (1), 41-55
Ned Levine (2005). “CrimeStat III”. Crime Mapping News. 7(2), Spring. 8-10.
Ned Levine (2005). CrimeStat III: A Spatial Statistics Program for the Analysis of Crime Incident Locations (version 3.0). Ned Levine & Associates, Houston, TX.; National Institute of Justice, Washington, DC. November. Archived at or at the National Criminal Justice Reference Service, NCJ number 209264. (
Ned Levine (2003). “CrimeStat II: a spatial statistics and visualization program”. GIM International. The Netherlands. October, vol 17, 12-15.
Ned Levine (2003). “Privacy and crime data”. Public Health GIS News and Information. 53, July. Centers for Disease Control, U.S. Department of Health Statistics: Washington, DC. 7-9.
Ned Levine (2003). “CrimeStat II”. Crime Mapping News, 5(2), Spring. 2-4.
Ned Levine (2002). CrimeStat II: A Spatial Statistics Program for the Analysis of Crime Incident Locations (version 2.0). Ned Levine & Associates, Houston, TX; National Institute of Justice, Washington, DC. May. Available from the National Criminal Justice Reference Service, NCJ number 195772-195774. (
Ned Levine (2000). CrimeStat: A Spatial Statistics Program for the Analysis of Crime Incident Locations (version 1.1). Ned Levine & Associates, Annandale, VA.; National Institute of Justice, Washington, DC. August.
Ned Levine (2000). “CrimeStat: a spatial statistics program for the analysis of crime incident locations”. Crime Mapping News. 2 (1), 8-9.
Ned Levine (1999). CrimeStat: A Spatial Statistics Program for the Analysis of Crime Incident Locations (version 1.0). Ned Levine & Associates, Annandale, VA.; National Institute of Justice, Washington, DC. November. Archived at or at the National Criminal Justice Reference Service, NCJ number 179282 (
Ned Levine (1999). “‘Hot spot’ analysis using the CrimeStat kernel density estimation technique. Web page of the Crime Mapping Research Center, National Institute of Justice (
Ned Levine (1999). “‘Hot spot’ analysis using both the Systat ‘K-means’ routine and a risk assessment”. Web page of the Crime Mapping Research Center, National Institute of Justice ( 1999.
Ned Levine (1988). Review of Dennis J. Kenney, Crime, Fear, and the New York City Subways: The Role of Citizen Action. Transportation Research - A, 22A (6), 467-469.
Ned Levine and Martin Wachs (1986). "Tracking Crime on Buses". TR NEWS. November-December, 18-22.
Ned Levine, Martin Wachs and Elham Shirazi (1986). "Crime at Bus Stops: A Study of Environmental Factors". Journal of Architectural and Planning Research. 3 (4), 339-361.
Ned Levine and Martin Wachs (1986). "Bus Crime in Los Angeles: I - Measuring The Incidence". Transportation Research. 20 (4), 273-284.
Ned Levine and Martin Wachs (1986). "Bus Crime in Los Angeles: II - Victims and Public Impact". Transportation Research. 20 (4), 285-293.
Ned Levine and Martin Wachs (1985). "Bus Crime: The 'Skeleton in the Closet'". ITS Review. 8 3(May). Institute of Transportation Studies: Berkeley, 4,5,8.
Ned Levine and Martin Wachs (1985). Factors Affecting the Incidence of Bus Crime in Los Angeles, Vol. I and II. Urban Mass Transportation Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation: Washington, D.C. Final Report for DOT Contract CA-06-0195. January. Available in National Technical Information System database.
Traffic and Other Community Safety Planning
Rohit Shenoi, Ned Levine, Jennifer L. Jones, Mary H. Frost, Christine E. Koerner, & John J. Fraser (2015). “Spatial analysis of paediatric swimming pool submersions by housing type”. Injury Prevention, 10.1136-2014-041397. January. 9 p.
Ned Levine (2011). “Spatial variation in motor vehicle crashes by gender in the Houston Metropolitan Area”. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Women’s Issues in Transportation. Volume II: Technical Papers, Transportation Research Board: Washington, DC. 12-25.
Abstract presented in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Women’s Issues in Transportation.Volume I: Conference Overview and Plenary Papers, 31.
Ned Levine (2009). “A motor vehicle safety planning support system: The Houston experience”. In S. Geertman and J. Stillwell, Planning Support Systems: Best Practice and New Methods. Springer. 93-111.
Ned Levine (2008). Guest editor, Special issue on traffic safety.”On traffic safety and law enforcement”, Geography and Public Safety Bulletin. National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Vol 1 (2), 1-2.
Ned Levine (editor) (2007). State of Safety in the Region: Report of the Regional Safety Council for 2007. Houston-Galveston Area Council, Houston, TX.
Ned Levine (2006). “Houston, Texas, Metropolitan Traffic Safety Planning Program”. Transportation Research Record, 1969, 92-100. Abstract at
Kansera, Suhag and Ned Levine (2005). “Safety considerations in the development of HOV facilities”. Conference proceedings. 12th International HOV Systems Conference, Houston. April.
AECOM Consulting Transportation Group, Bellomo-McGee, and Ned Levine & Associates (2002). Considering Safety in the Transportation Planning Process. Federal Highway Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation: Washington, DC.
Ned Levine and Karl E. Kim (1999). “The spatial location of motor vehicle accidents: A methodology for geocoding intersections”. Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems. 22 (6), 557-576.
Karl Kim and Ned Levine (1996). “Using GIS to improve highway safety”. Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems. 20 (4/5), pp. 289-302.
Ned Levine, Karl E. Kim, and Lawrence H. Nitz (1995). "Daily fluctuations in Honolulu motor vehicle accidents". Accident Analysis & Prevention. 27 (6), 785-796.
Ned Levine, Karl E. Kim, and Lawrence H. Nitz (1995). "Spatial analysis of Honolulu motor vehicle crashes: I. Spatial patterns". Accident Analysis & Prevention, 27 (5), 663-674.
Ned Levine, Karl E. Kim, and Lawrence H. Nitz (1995). "Spatial analysis of Honolulu motor vehicle crashes: II. Generators of crashes". Accident Analysis & Prevention, 27 (5), 675-685.
Karl Kim, Ned Levine, and Lawrence Nitz (1995). "Development of a prototype traffic safety geographic information system". Transportation Research Record 1477, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council, Washington, D.C., 41-47.
Karl Kim and Ned Levine (1995). “Development of a traffic safety GIS in Honolulu, Hawaii”. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Management, July 11-14, 1994. Melbourne, Australia.
Miscellaneous Transportation Studies
Ned Levine and Martin Wachs (1998). "Factors affecting vehicle occupancy measurement". Transportation Research A. 32 (3), 215-229.
Martin Wachs, Brian Taylor, Ned Levine and Paul Ong (1993). "The Changing Commute: A Case Study of the Jobs/Housing Relationship Over Time". Urban Studies. 30 10, 1711-1729.
Growth Management, Land Use and Housing Policy
Ned Levine, “Visualizing population growth in California: perspectives on future development scenarios”. Prepared manuscript. 2001.
Allan Heskin, Ned Levine and Mark Garrett, "Rent control and vacancy control: a spatial analysis of four California cities". Journal of the American Planning Association. 2000. 66 (2), 162-176.
Ned Levine, “The effects of local growth management on regional housing production and population redistribution in California”, Urban Studies. 1999. 36 12, 2047-2068.
Madelyn Glickfeld, William Fulton, Grant McMurran, and Ned Levine, “Growth governance in Southern California”. Claremont Graduate University Research Institute. October 1999.
Ned Levine. “A note on urban sprawl”. Journal of the American Planning Association. Spring 1997. 63 (2), 279-282.
Ned Levine, Madelyn Glickfeld, and William Fulton. Home Rule: Local Growth Control...Regional Consequences. Report to the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and the Southern California Association of Governments. Los Angeles. April 1996.
Madelyn Glickfeld and Ned Levine, Regional Growth...Local Reaction: The Enactment and Effects of Local Growth Control and Management Measures in California. The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, MA. February 1992.
Ned Levine, J. Eugene Grigsby and Allan Heskin, "Who Benefits from Rent Control? Effects on Tenants in Santa Monica, California". Journal of the American Planning Association. 1990. 56 2(Spring), 140-152.
Madelyn Glickfeld and Ned Levine, "The Relationship Between Local Growth Controls and Production of Affordable Housing: A California Case Study". In Regulatory Impediments to the Development and Placement of Affordable Housing. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Policy Research and Insurance of the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives. Serial No. 101-153, Washington, D.C., August 2, 1990. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, D.C. 138-200.
David Stea, Ned Levine and Richard W. Smith, "Shared-Facilities Housing: Past, Present and Prospects for Milwaukee", Research and Opinion, 1985, 2 (2), Urban Research Center, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Research Methodology
Pradeep Mohan, Shashi Shekhar, Ned Levine, Ronald E. Wilson, Mete Celik, and Betsy George (2008). “Should SDBMS support a join index: A case study from CrimeStat”. In Proceedings of 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2008), California, USA: Association of Computing Machinery.
Ned Levine, "Spatial statistics and GIS: software tools to quantify spatial patterns",Journal of the American Planning Association. 1996. 62 (3), 381-392.
Ned Levine, "COHORT: Cohort Component Population Projection". In R. E. Klosterman, R. Brail and E. Bossard, Spreadsheets for Urban and Regional Analysis. Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University. 1993. 85-106.
Ned Levine, "Demographic Data for Microcomputers". Journal of the American Planning Association. 1990. 56 4(Autumn), 516-520.
Ned Levine, "Demographic Data Sources". In R.E. Klosterman (ed), A Planners Review of PC Software and Technology. Planning Advisory Service Report Nos. 414/415. Chicago: American Planning Association, December 1988, 15-22.
Ned Levine, "Demographic Data Sources Available for Microcomputers". Journal of the American Planning Association. 1988. 54 2(Spring), 234-241.
"Census Bureau Software: The Data-Extraction Issue", Author's reply to David Shaw's Comment. Journal of the American Planning Association. 1989. 55 2(Spring), 225-226.
Ned Levine, "Planners Slowly Incorporate Microcomputers in Planning". Guest article, Student Planner, 1988, 9 (April), 1,5.
Ned Levine, "The Construction of a Population Analysis Program Using A Microcomputer Spreadsheet". Journal of the American Planning Association. 1985. 51 4(Autumn), 496-511.
"Author's Reply to Dowell Myers's Comments", Journal of the American Planning Association. 1986. 52 2(Spring), 220-221.
Ned Levine, "The Development of an Annoyance Scale for Community Noise Assessment", Journal of Sound and Vibration. 1981, 74 1(2), 265-279.
"Author's Reply to Sanford Fidell's Comments", Journal of Sound and Vibration. 1981, 78 (2), 301-305.
Sheila Rossan and Ned Levine, "Field Methods: A Course for Teaching Non-Laboratory Research Methods", Bulletin of the British Psychological Society. 1974, 27, 123-128.
Migration, Immigration an International Development
Ned Levine, "Social Change and Family Change: the Nature of Turkish Divorce". In C. Kagitcibasi (ed), Sex Roles, Family and Community in Turkey. Indiana University Turkish Studies 3, Indiana University Press: Bloomington, IND. 1982. 323-347.
Ned Levine, "'Rural Traditionalism' among 'Urban Modernizers' in Turkey: Incongruities between Urbanization as a Social Force and Anti-Urbanism as a Social Policy". In S. El-Shakhs, J. Lutz and J. Held, Tradition and Modernity: The Role of Neo-Traditionalism in the Modernization Process. University Press of America: Washington, D.C. 1982. 47-66.
Ned Levine, "The Turkish Urbanization: Development or Distorted Growth? In K. Karpat, O. Okyar, and A. Evin (eds), Turkish Development Trends: 1974-2024. Hacettepe University: Ankara, Turkey. Publication Date Unknown (possibly 1978).
Ned Levine, "Divorce in Turkey". In S.Uner (ed), Proceedings of the Second Turkish Demography Conference. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. Publication Date Unknown (possibly 1978).
Ned Levine, "Anti-Urbanization: an Implicit Development Policy in Turkey", Journal of Developing Areas, 1980, 15, 513-538.
Ned Levine and S. Uner, Population Policy Formation and Implementation in Turkey. Hacettepe University Publication D-24. Ankara, Turkey. August 1978.
Ned Levine, "Population Growth and Fertility". In D.Kandiyoti (ed), Impact of Planned Urbanization on Population Dynamics: the Case of East Marmara Region. Proceedings of Workshop/Seminar 15, Interdisciplinary Communications Program, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 1976. 27-28.
Ned Levine and Tripta Nayar, "Modes of Adaptation by Asian Immigrants in Slough", New Community: Journal of the Community Relations Commission. 1975, 4, 356-363.
Ned Levine and Tripta Nayar, "An Additional Note on Immigrant Fertility", New Community: Journal of the Community Relations Commission, 1975. 4, 364-365.
Ned Levine, "Why do Countries win Olympic Medals? Some Structural Correlates of Olympic Games Success: 1972", Sociology and Social Research. 1974, 58, 353-360.
Ned Levine, "Old Culture-New Culture: A Study of Migrants in Ankara, Turkey", Social Forces. 1973, 51, 355-368.
Ned Levine, "Value Orientation among Migrants in Ankara: A Case Study", Journal of Asian and African Studies, 1973, 7, 50-68.
Small Group Behavior
Ned Levine and Cary Cooper, "Implicit Values in Experiential Learning Groups: Their Functional and Dysfunctional Consequences", In C. Cooper (ed), Advances in Experiential Social Processes. J. Wiley: London and New York. 1978. 1-27.
Ned Levine and Cary Cooper, "The Future of Experiential Learning in Organizational Development: A Prophecy". In C. Cooper (ed), Organizational Development in the U.K. and U.S.A. Petrocelli Books: New York. 1977. 113-139.
Ned Levine and Cary Cooper, "T-Groups: Twenty Years On-A Prophecy", Human Relations, 1976, 29, 1-23.
Cary Cooper, Ned Levine, and K. Kobayashi, "Developing One's Potential: from West to East". Group and Organization Studies, 1976, 1, 43-55.
Ned Levine, "Group Training with Students in Higher Education", Interpersonal Development. 1972, 3, 40-67. Also in C. Cooper (ed), Group Training for Individual and Organizational Development. S. Karger: Basel, 1972, 40-67.
Ned Levine, "Emotional Factors in Group Development", Human Relations. 1971, 24, 65-89.
Miscellaneous
Ned Levine and Marie Slonski, A Survey of Manufacturers of Solar Thermal Energy Systems. Planning and Information Project for the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Thermal Technology Division. Publication 82-94 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena. 1982.
Ned Levine, "On the Metaphysics of Social Psychology: A Critical View", Human Relations, 1976, 29, 385-400.
Ned Levine, Colin Worboys and Martin Taylor, "Psychology and the 'Psychology' Textbook: A Social Demographic Study", Human Relations. 1973, 26, 467-478.
Articles/Notices About My Work
Patsy Lee and Fiona Murray, “Analysis in Practice: Predicting the future”. Police Professional: The Professional Journal for the UK Police Service. Issue 82, July 26, 2007, 41-42.
John Scheerhout, “Computer that predicts crooks’ actions”. Manchester Evening News. Technology Section, July 10, 2007.
Mark Greenblatt, “Crime wave: Data proves rising murder rate in Houston cannot be blamed on Katrina evacuees”. The IRE Journal. March/April 2007. 28-29. Reprinted in BestofNewOrleans.com. April 17, 2007.
“Predicting a criminal’s journey to crime”. NIJ Journal. 253. January 2006.