Definitions 1
The systematic approach to analyzing facets of volume crime in order to prevent or detect crime.
What is crime pattern analysis?
They aim to identify the specific sites where crime takes place.
What are points-based methods?
Offenders perform criminal acts at the intersection of their awareness and target spaces.
What is crime pattern theory?
Trends of crimes occurring in the same areas or households.
What is repeat victimization?
Crime data are accumulated into particular units of territory.
What are area-based methods?
Areas with high rates of criminal activity due to their accessibility to the general public, such as a pub or railway station.
What are crime generators?
Although now computerized, it started as a series of pins physically placed into them in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
What is the origin of crime mapping?
These are the places where the awareness space and target space meet.
What are places affording the minimal risk?
Areas with characteristics that discourage offenders, such as the existence of stable businesses which afford natural surveillance.
What are crime detractors?
The actual or direct distance between the offender’s home and the crime site. They are reported as means or mode crime trip distances, medial circles, mobility triangles, or distance decay functions.
What are crime journeys?
An exploratory process with the goal of creating, using, and assessing measures to prevent crime.
What is crime analysis?
<2 miles, in their early 20s.
What are the average crime journey and age of offenders?
The idea that the individual will choose from many possible actions the action that requires spending the least amount of effort.
What is the least effort principle?
Obtaining, analyzing, and interpreting data; creating, using, and assessing prevention strategies.
What are key steps of crime analysis?
These areas are linked to low offender and offense rates.
What are middle-class outer suburbs?
Target, location, method, timing, nature, physical and social circumstances, victim attributes, crime attempted or successful, offender qualities, nearness of crime generators.
What are key variables of crime analysis?
These areas are linked to high offender and offence rates.
What are deprived council estates?
The offender, the target, and the opportunity (afforded by lack of surveillance).
What are 3 components of crime?
It uses the locations of a related sequence of crime to figure out where the offender is most likely to reside.
What is geographic profiling?
Retrospective empirical analysis and statistical cluster analysis.
What are two methods of case analysis?
A project created to generate methods of looking at investigative advice provided to police.
What are case analyses (or offender profiling)?
It offers a phenomenological description of different kinds of crime e.g., sexually motivated crimes.
What is retrospective empirical analysis?
The idea that criminal activity occurs in time and space and that points represent the location of crime targets, paths, and edges.
What are developments in crime pattern analysis arising from environmental criminology?
Manipulating and processing crime data to display it visually and make it informative to the user. E.g., pin maps, choropleth or shaded maps, kernel-density estimates, Voronoi polygrams.
What is crime mapping?
The analyst comes up with a hypothesis, reviews data, and revises the hypothesis. Then the investigation team assesses the hypothesis and case based on these ratings.
What is statistical cluster analysis?