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Learning Objectives
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The student will understand the definition of crime analysis
and some of its underpinning theories such as situational crime prevention, routine activity theory and displacement.
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The student will understand the applications of crime analysis
particularly as a method to identify hot spots and as a means to investigate serial offenders.
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The student will be exposed to how crime analysis can be
used to solve community problems and advanced crime mapping topics like geographic profiling.
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The hyperlinks provided
for the Key Terms may take you to a simple definition, or an article wherein the term is described:
Activity Space
Beat
Comfort Zone
Crime Alerts or Criminal
Intelligence Bulletins
Crime Density Map
Crime Pattern
Displacement
Forecasting
Geographic Profiling
Graduated-Symbol Map
Hot Spot
Incapacitation
Mean
Center
Mean Distance
Mean Number
Median Number
Method Operation,
or
Modus Operandi (MO)
Mode
Plotters
Profile
Rational Choice Theory
Routine Activity Theory
Scanning–Analysis–
Response–Assessment (SARA)
Serial Crimes
Serial Offender
Single-Symbol Map
Situational Crime
Prevention
Spatial
Spatial Forecasting
Standard Deviation
Standard Deviation
Ellipse
Standard Distance
Around Mean Center Point (STAMP)
Temporal
Temporal Forecasting
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