Crime Analysis with Crime Mapping

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 AnalysisChapter 1: Crime Analysis and the ProfessionChapter 2: Theoretical Foundations of Crime AnalysisChapter 3: Evidence-Based Policing and Problem SolvingPART II: Crime Analysis Process, Data, and ProductsChapter 4: Crime Analysis Process and TypesChapter 5: Crime Analysis Data and TechnologyChapter 6: Geographic Data and Crime MappingChapter 7: Crime Analysis Products and CommunicationPART III: Tactical Crime AnalysisChapter 8: Calls for Service Data and Repeat Incident AnalysisChapter 9: Crime Data and Pattern IdentificationChapter 10: Persons and Property Crime PatternsChapter 11: Crime Pattern Bulletins, Response, and EvaluationPART IV: Strategic Crime AnalysisChapter 12: Statistics and TrendsChapter 13: Long-Term Problem Analysis, Part IChapter 14: Long-Term Problem Analysis, Part IIChapter 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."