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Chapter 1 - Knowledge of Crime Analysis Basics
IACA Certification
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Criminal Justice
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09/04/2014

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Crime Analysis Cycle Steps
Definition
Data
Analysis
Information
Communication
Knowledge
Term
Who was the father of American Policing?
Definition
August Vollmer (Berkley 1905-1932)
Term
What year and where was crime analysis first used?
Definition
London in the 1800s
Term
What types of crime analysis advances was Vollmer credited for?
Definition

Fingerprinting

Pin Mapping

Report Review

Patrol Districts based on crime violence

Term
Who defined crime analysis in 1963?
Definition
Olrlando Wilson
Term
What are the primary components of Wilson's crime analysis definition?
Definition

1. Study daily reports

2.  Determine time, location, similarities

3. Crime pattern identification

4.  Assist in planning Deployment

Term
LEAA was responsible for the growth of crime analysis from what dates?
Definition
1970s to1982
Term
What does ICAP stand for?
Definition
Intergrated Criminal Apprehension Program
Term
What are the eight things that contributed to the 1990s "GOLDEN AGE"?
Definition

1. POP

2. IACA (1990)

3. California Certification (1992)

4. DOJ Funding

5. New Technology

6. Compstat (1994)

7. Crime Mapping Research Center

8. Crime Mapping

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What are the Classifications of Crime Analysis?
Definition

1. Crime Analysts

2. Criminal Intelligence Analysts

3.  Criminal Investigation Analysts

Term
Law enforcement Analysis?
Definition

The process, techniques, products that provide information support to the mission of the agency.

Term

Crime Analysis

Definition

The systemic study of crime and disorder, police related issues, sociodemograhic, temporal data to assist in criminal apprhrehesion, reduction, prevention and evaluation of crime.

Term
Classifications of Crime Analysis
Definition

Tactical

Strategic

Administrative

Operational

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Tactical Analysis

Definition

The process of identifying crime patterns, analyzing patterns, notifying agency of patterns and help develop tactics to address patterns.  It is action oriented, uses the who, what, why, where and when with forecasting as needed.

Term
Stragetic Analysis
Definition

Focuses on long-term trends/chronic issues through periodic analysis and data collection.  The main focus is on crime reduction not apprehension.

Term

Positive increase in crime means crime...

Definition
Increases, that are indicative of new problems. The problem requires qualitative date outside of police reports to research and developed an hypotheses then test through field research.  Reduction is usually through lack of desirability or oppurtunity of targets.
Term
Negative increase in crime means crime
Definition
is reduced
Term
Neutral shift in crime means
Definition
the characteristics are consistent in volume
Term
Qualitative data can consist of?
Definition
Interviews, Surveys,Focus groups,Enviromental assessents, External research
Term
Administrative analysis consists of?
Definition

It is a broad category consisting of administrative and statisical reports, research or other projects not focused on short or long term crime reduction or elimination of a trend or pattern.

Term
Examples of administrative analysis
Definition

UCR

Grants

Deployment maps

Graphs/Charts to management

Demographics for an area

Term
Police operations analysis consists of?
Definition
Study of department policies and practices to help in the allocation of personnel, money, and equipment. Relates to stategic analysis.
Term
Examples of Police Operations Analysis
Definition

Divide area into beats

How many officer to deploy per shift

Mandatory arrest policies

Justification for more Officers

Cosst of repsonse

Term
The Crime Analysis Process
Definition

1. Data collection

2. Data Scanning/query

3. Data analysis

4.  Informaiton dissemination

5.  Response

6. Evaluation/Feedback

Term
Data Sources
Definition
  1. Incidents
  2. Police Activity
  3. GIS
  4. Jursidiction
  5. Other agencies
  6. Persons/Businesses
Term
Data quality factors
Definition
  1. Accuracy
  2. Reliability
  3. Completeness
  4. Timeliness
Term
The two approaches to analysis
Definition
Inductive and deductive
Term
Inductive analysis
Definition
Individual pieces that form a pattern (Tactical)
Term
Deductive analysis
Definition
large amount of data broken down to find patterns (strategic)
Term
The categories and of methods to analysis
Definition
  1. Filtration(remove)
  2. Categories (Classify)
  3. Aggregation(count)
  4. Comparison
  5. Correlation (Stats)
  6. Causality/Explaination
  7. Projection
Term
Strategies of crime prevention
Definition
  1. Increase effort - target hardening
  2. Increase risk -security
  3. Reduce reward - less value of target
  4. Reduce Provacation - create stress, fear
  5. Remove excuses - signage, education
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