Hot spot analyses generated from crime incident locations has become a popular tool for informing tactical police applications. In this article, the authors expand the incident hot spot application to include information about offender residences in relation to incident locations. It is argued that analyzing offender residence offers added utility to current spatial techniques employed in police work. The methods used to analyze offender residence data are similar to those employed in point intensity hot spot analysis but may have use in investigative as well as tactical decisions. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the use of arrest data in generating an offender residence probability surface (ORPS) linked to specific target neighborhoods in Boston, Massachusetts, and to discuss various criminal justice applications of these surfaces.
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