POLICE TECHNOLOGY - Crime Analysis

Learning Objectives

The student will understand the definition of crime analysis and some of its underpinning theories such as situational crime prevention, routine activity theory and displacement.
The student will understand the applications of crime analysis particularly as a method to identify hot spots and as a means to investigate serial offenders.
The student will be exposed to how crime analysis can be used to solve community problems and advanced crime mapping topics like geographic profiling.

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Activity Space

Beat

Comfort Zone

Crime Alerts or Criminal

Intelligence Bulletins

Crime Density Map

Crime Pattern

Displacement

Forecasting

Geographic Profiling

Graduated-Symbol Map

Hot Spot

Incapacitation

Mean Center

Mean Distance

Mean Number

Median Number

Method Operation, or

Modus Operandi (MO)

Mode

Plotters

Profile

Rational Choice Theory

Routine Activity Theory

ScanningâAnalysisâ ResponseâAssessment (SARA)

Serial Crimes

Serial Offender

Single-Symbol Map

Situational Crime

Prevention

Spatial

Spatial Forecasting

Standard Deviation

Standard Deviation

Ellipse

Standard Distance Around Mean Center Point (STAMP)

Temporal

Temporal Forecasting