Foundations of Crime Analysis: Data, Analyses, and Mapping

ISBN-13: 9781138860490 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 264 str.

Jeffery T. Walker; Grant R. Drawve

Opis

This book offers a theoretical and methodological introduction to crime analysis, covering the main techniques used in the analysis of crime, a foundation in crime mapping and includes case studies and examples of problems faced by crime analysts.

Spis treści

1. Practicalities of crime analysis, 2. What is crime analysis? 3. Places and individuals: environmental criminology, 4. Strategic and tactical crime analysis, 5. Problem identification, 6. Data, 7. Describing crime events, 8. Examining multiple elements of crime and place, 9. Making inferences from one place to another, 10. Useful tips and techniques, 11. Spatial and termporal applications, 12. Crime mapping, 13. Retrospective techniques, 14. Predictive techniques, analytics, and applications, 15. Future directions, Appendix A: Crime analyst questionnaire responses, Appendix B: National Incident-Based Reportering System (NIBRS) group offenses, Appendix C: Dataanalysis add-in forMicrosoft Excel