Description
Book SynopsisCrime and Intelligence Analysis: An Integrated Real-Time Approach, 2nd Edition, covers everything crime analysts and tactical analysts need to know to be successful. Providing an overview of the criminal justice system as well as the more fundamental areas of crime analysis, the book enables students and law enforcement personnel to gain a better understanding of criminal behavior, learn the basics of conducting temporal analysis of crime patterns, use spatial analysis to better understand crime, apply research methods to crime analysis, and more successfully evaluate data and information to help predict criminal offending and solve criminal cases. A new chapter provides expert advice about terrorist threats and threat assessment.
Criminal justice and police academy students, as well as civilians, sworn officers, and administrators, can build the skills to be credible crime analysts who play a critical role in the daily operations of law enforcement.
Table of ContentsPart I. Crime and the Twenty-First Century; 1. The Crime Problem; 2. What Do We Know about Crime?; 3. What Causes People to Commit Crimes?; Part II. Law Enforcement—Then and Now; 4. The Police and Law Enforcement—It’s Come a Long Way 5. Police Investigations in the Twenty-First Century; Part III. Intelligence and Intelligence Analysis; 6. An Introduction to Intelligence; 7. Intelligence and the Tactical Analyst; 8. Collecting Intelligence; 9. Data Mining and Analyzing Intelligence; Part IV. Crime Analysis; 10. History and Types of Crime Analysis; 11. Tactical Crime Analysis; 12. Tactical Crime Analysis and Hot Spots Policing; 13. Strategic Crime Analysis; 14. Understanding Threat Assessment Methodologies and the Role of the Analyst; 15. Administrative Crime Analysis; 16. Police Operations Crime Analysis; Part V. Crime Analysis and the Future; 17. Crime Analysis and the Future of Policing
