Dr. Hart is an Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Tampa, whose areas of interest include survey research, applied statistics, geographic information systems (GIS), and victimization. His scholarship appears in top peer-reviewed academic journals in his discipline, including the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Criminal Justice and Behavior, and the British Journal of Criminology. He has been awarded numerous research grants, including studies funded by the Queensland Police Service, Australian Institute of Criminology, the National Institute of Justice, and the Bureau of Justice Statistics. In 2021, he received the Excellence in Scholarship and Research award from the University of Tampa’s College of Social Sciences, Mathematics, and Education. His symposium today was titled “Crime Risk Estimation: An Introduction to Hot Spot Analysis.” In this talk, he discussed the Geometry of Crime and the Law of Crime Concentration, tessellating shapes, and how probability is used to evaluate the accuracy of crime forecasts.