Crime Analysis with Crime Mapping 5/e

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.

PART I: Foundations of Crime Analysis Chapter 1: Crime Analysis and the Profession Chapter 2: Theoretical Foundations of Crime Analysis Chapter 3: Evidence-Based Policing and Problem Solving PART II: Crime Analysis Process, Data, and Products Chapter 4: Crime Analysis Process and Types Chapter 5: Crime Analysis Data and Technology Chapter 6: Geographic Data and Crime Mapping Chapter 7: Crime Analysis Products and Communication PART III: Tactical Crime Analysis Chapter 8: Calls for Service Data and Repeat Incident Analysis Chapter 9: Crime Data and Pattern Identification Chapter 10: Persons and Property Crime Patterns Chapter 11: Crime Pattern Bulletins, Response, and Evaluation PART IV: Strategic Crime Analysis Chapter 12: Statistics and Trends Chapter 13: Long-Term Problem Analysis, Part I Chapter 14: Long-Term Problem Analysis, Part II Chapter 15: Evaluation of Response and Crime Reduction Goals

"Outstanding text that provides actionable methods for conducting crime analysis. It balances student needs along with working professionals. The instructor resources are also a huge bonus providing class exercises and assignments that the students truly enjoy." -- Gwen M. Udell "An excellent introductory text for crime analysis and crime mapping for criminal justice." -- William Moreto