Chainey / Tompson Crime Mapping Case Studies

Practice and Research
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-98718-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 180 Seiten, E-Book

Crime Mapping Case Studies: From Research toPractice provides a series of key examples from practiceand research that demonstrate applications of crime mapping and itseffect in many areas of policing and crime reduction. This bookbrings together case studies that show how crime mapping can beused for analysis, intelligence development, monitoringperformance, and crime detection and is written by practitionersfor practitioners.
Leading researchers in the field describe how crime mapping isdeveloping and exposing analytical methodologies and critiquingcurrent practices. Including global case studies that demonstrate aparticular application, analytical technique or new theoreticalconcept, this text offers a truly global overview of this rapidlygrowing area of interest.
Unlike other texts on this topic, this book identifies mistakesand challenges in this field of enquiry to aid the reader inunderstanding the basics of this technique, giving them theopportunity to learn further.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chainey, Spencer

Tompson, Lisa

Über Autor(innen)

Anyone intimidated by physics who wants to understand How Everything Works.