Exam 1 - Crime Analysis

Quantitative data?

Numerical

Who invented CompStat?

New York Police

What are the two larger level key challenges for crime analysis?

Institutionalizing crime analysis, Professionalizing crime analysis

Some retailers like Walmart and target employee crime analysts.

True

Most crime analysts are sworn police officers.

False

What changes are said to be in the future of crime analysis?

All of the above

Crime mapping is not associated with crime analysis?

False

Where did crime analysis first begin as a discipline?

London

What policing approach and organizational model infuses crime analysis into crime reduction work within police departments?

Stratified policing

Three key types of information used are sociodemographic, spatial, and temporal.

True

What are the 4 necessary components of a crime?

Target, offender, place, time

A guardian is?

A person/mechanism that can protect victims/targets

A manager is?

A person that is responsible for a place

A handler is?

A person who knows the potential offender and can control their actions

Handlers can cause an offender to commit a crime

True

Offenders will commit a crime if the risk is larger than the reward

False

Crime pattern theory is centered around the routines of offenders in areas called?

Activity spaces

Routine activity theory says?

All of the above

The law of crime concentration says that?

Crime clusters by place

People/places that have been victimized have a decreased likelihood of being victimized again?

False

Near repeat victimization comes from findings that?

Non-victimized places near places that have been victimized are more likely to be victimized themselves

What crime types are most often with near repeat?

Theft from vehicle, robbery, residential burglary

Near repeat crimes occur rapidly

True

Situational crime prevention seeks to do what?

Provide crime prevention solutions

Crime problems are often displaces to another area due to crime reduction strategies

False

Most effective crime reduction involve crime analysis

True

Crime analysis directly reduces crime on its own

False

How does standard model of policing utilize crime analysis?

To aggregate crime stats

Hot spot policing is what type of approach?

Place-based

Hot spot policing tends to displace crime to other areas

False

Person-focused approaches seek to do what?

Deter specific high-rate offenders

Problem-solving approaches reactive

False

The first A in the SARA Model stands for what?

Analyzing data to understand opportunities

Community-based approaches such as broken window policing are very effective at reducing overall crime

False

Predictive policing is?

All of the above

Crime intelligence analysis involves?

Data about people involved in crimes (victims, offenders, organizations)

Tactical crime analysis involves?

Data directed towards the short-term

Strategic crime analysis involves?

Long-term strategies

Administrative crime analysis involves?

Analysis directed toward the administrative needs of the police agency, its government, and its community

Problem area analysis is most commonly associated with what type of analysis?

Strategic crime analysis

Crime pattern analysis is most commonly?

Tactical crime analysis

Link analysis?

Crime intelligence analysis

Patrol staffing analysis?

Administrative crime analysis

Social media analysis?

Crime intelligence analysis

Crime mapping complements all forms of crime analysis and plays an important role in

True

Tactical crime analysis involves?

Short-term

Strategic crime analysis involves?

Long-term

Crime is not often displaced to other areas as a result of an effective

True

Crime reduction responses can often positively impact other problem types and areas, this is called?

Diffusion of benefits

The 80/20 rule applied to crime says that about 80% of crime is committed by 20% of people

True