Crime Analysis and Crime Mapping - Softcover

Santos, Rachel Boba

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761930922 ISBN 13: 9780761930921

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2005

Synopsis

Crime analysis is an emerging profession in policing and a growing topic of interest in the criminal justice field. This book offers a thorough introduction to the field as well as guidelines for its practice, making it a useful asset for current and future crime analysts and police practitioners as well as for students.

About this title

About the Author

Rachel Boba Santos is a professor at Radford University in the Department of Criminal Justice. She works with police departments and crime analysts. She conducts experimental and applied research on place-based and offender-based police crime reduction strategies, stratified policing, crime analysis, community engagement, and police use of force.
Dr. Santos′ interests include conducting practice-based research which is implementing and evaluating evidence-based practices in the “real world” of criminal justice. In particular, she seeks to improve crime prevention and crime reduction efforts by police in areas such as crime analysis, problem solving, accountability, as well as leadership and organizational change. She and Dr. Roberto Santos co-created Stratified Policing which is an organizational model for systemizing proactive crime reduction strategies in police departments. Other areas of research include police/researcher partnerships, police/community collaboration, hot spot and problem-oriented policing, predictive policing, environmental criminology, crime and place, police/crime data and technology, experimental research methodology, and program evaluation.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761930922
• ISBN 13: 9780761930921
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320