Jeffery T. Walker, Grant R. Drawve

Foundations of Crime Analysis (eBook, ePUB)

Data, Analyses, and Mapping

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317507000
• Artikelnr.: 55264468

Autorenporträt

Jeffery T. Walker is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, USA. He has written 10 books and almost 100 journal articles and book chapters. He has obtained over $12 million in grants from the Department of Justice, National Institute of Drug Abuse, National Science Foundation, and others.

Grant R. Drawve is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Arkansas, USA. He is a research affiliate of the Center for Social Research (CSR) and Terrorism Research Center (TRC) at UA, Rutgers Center on Public Security (RCPS), and on the executive committee for the National Dialogues on Behavioral Health (NDBH).

Inhaltsangabe

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: Data analysis add-in for Microsoft Excel