Essays on Crime Analysis

1. Crime is one of the major problems in society. It is worth noting that there are various mechanisms that the criminal justice system uses to analyze and prevent criminal activities. Crime analysis s is a critical role that is associated with law enforcement agencies. It entails the systematic analysis for analyzing and identifying the trends and patterns in crime. Crime analysis continues to expand in law enforcement agencies around the world. In crime analysis, there are critical approaches of profiling; it includes the deductive and inductive approaches. There are the differences between inductive and deductive methods of crime ...

Discuss why the characteristics of victims are so important to crime analysis

Although victim characteristics is only one of many aspects considered in theoretical victimology, which studies the victim factors in the crime (Fattah, 2000), these characteristics has been found influential in the planning and eventual commission of the crime. Since the history of this field of study, there was a running belief that the victim may have a contribution in the genesis of the crime. As early as 1940, despite many crimes wherein the victim has little or no direct or indirect contribution in the occurrence of the crime, many observers noted that there was real interaction and mutual contribution ...

Doing a research paper in criminal law or legal matters involve a process that is distinct due to the nature of the subject. One feature that is unique in the research process is the use and consultation of legal journals and references that are written for people who are practicing the law. These materials are written in the language that are exclusively comprehensible among those who are oriented with the body of constitutions, often perceived as jargon. Hence, the familiarity with terminologies and construction of the grammar being used among the text are apparent among the scholars of the ...

Crime analysis is made up of five stages: data collection, collation, analysis, dissemination, and the receipt of feedback. Trying to determine which stage is most important is a very subjective process since every step is critical in crime analysis. Failure to complete any of the five stages can lead to incomplete, inaccurate, or misleading conclusions. However, from the most objective of perspectives, it can be concluded that data collection represents the most important stage in crime analysis. The main rationale behind this reasoning is that the rest of the steps are solely dependent on the accuracy of data collection. ...

In any society, there exists an interaction between people of different backgrounds and characters. Hence, it calls for legal checks to ensure a good relationship within the occupants of the region. The wrongdoers in any society are monitored and punished by the law enforcers in that particular locality. While investigating any crime committed, the law enforcers use a stipulated procedure and apply various criminology theories to understand the offense adequately for proper evaluation. In this article, criminological theories will be assessed, and there is a review of their application in crime analysis procedure. Through criminology, criminals, and their behavior ...

Book Review

Book Review

Introduction

Policing in the United States is democratic not only in theory, but also in practice. Policing plays a crucial role in encouraging the institutions in a democracy, thereby either sustaining or eroding the quality of democracy. It is important to note that democratic policing often employs practices that lead to an increase in inequality across the society. Therefore, the book titled “Democratic Policing in a Changing World,” written by Peter Manning offers a theoretical background with regards to the nature and function of democratic policing. The author presents valuable information about Anglo-American policing and its effects on ...

Criminal Justice

Crime Analysis and Strategies for the City of Amber Executive Summary The City of Amber is experiencing an alarming rate of burglary incidents for the past two weeks. In this regard, the Amber Police Department will be taking steps in addressing the alarming rate of burglary incidents in the city through a systematic approach in terms of allocating manpower, heightened surveillance, and vigilant patrol of the surrounding communities with the help of the civilian personnel. In order to establish peace and order back to the community through a preventive and pro-active solution, it is important to consider the crime ...

Policy

Having increased of prosecutorial powers well as the number of police, this becomes a method of controlling crime. Therefore, crime control policies implicate wholly enforcement actions either by administration of the criminal justice system or law enforcement. The system of administration of criminal justice may involve correction facilities or courts (Ismaili, 2011). The police have developed policies as well as strategies that account effectiveness to the control and management of crime.

In their policies, they involve crime analysis; here they provide research that focus on answering to crime control on how crimes occur. In crime analysis, they involve specialist disciplinary ...

Question one

There are excess of suspicious persons in one area than the other. The suspicious the excess of suspicious persons in one area was reported. The reported areas, which had suspicious persons in excess, were the Northwestern part and the North Eastern part. The excess of suspected persons in the Northern East area may be because of the reason that the area is endowed with to do people. People of higher standard live in this area. Criminals like this area, as they know that if they go to robe in this area they will at least get something as compared ...

Introduction to Criminal Justice

Question one: Explain why individual rights and public order perspectives are such contentious issues in contemporary American Society

Individual rights refer to personal or individual freedoms that are accorded to human beings and are guaranteed in the Bill of Rights. Some of the individual rights enshrined in the law include the right to petition, right to bear arms, right to vote, among others. An individual rights perspective calls for the protection of personal freedoms without any abridgement in the criminal justice system. On the other hand, when viewed from a public order perspective, it is suggested that individual rights or personal freedoms can be overridden when public safety is at stake. Indeed, public order advocates believe that under ...

Raster data is cell matrix or pixels arranged in terms of rows and columns or grid. The cells of the grid contain information for instance, on temperature. Examples of rasters include; maps, pictures, satellites, imagery among other. Data stored in such format shows phenomena in the real world. Raster data may be used in developing patrol line files and crime data in a case by using aerial photo as a raster (McCauley, 2007).

Repeat incidents happen, when more than one incident happen at the same time. It provides an opportunity for crime analysis and foundation for problem solving. Police for instance, ...

The notion of crime analysis is analyzed differently with diverse scholars. Nevertheless, all the defining factors have common features that unite the field. According to Sampson (2007), crime analysis is a key element in police agency since it makes use of information in the intelligence systematic methods. The major factor that play a big role in criminal detentions are first, crime study, that is, burglary, rape, robbery among others (Lemonick, 2007). Secondly, there are chaotic issues or problems that include suspicious activities, noise complaints, and thief alarms among others. Therefore, crime analysis presents a preventive measure and an understanding in a situation which ...

Abstract

Police department is considered to be evolved throughout the world on the basis of criminals and their modern ideas of the criminal activities. We will try to look at the various aspects of the society and its connection with the police or role of the law enforcement agencies. We will try to lay the foundation of the study on the information gathered from several sources that are subjected to the researched reports and intellectual work done on the book written by Roberg. The police department is considered to be an important governmental institution and it must be organized merely ...

Introduction

This paper aims to transform the police department into a high performance stage four team. A stage four team possesses a possible intuitive understanding and awareness of the strengths and weaknesses that each of the team members possesses. Although the specific mechanisms through which a team at this stage functions coherently are not clear Balzac (2013) argues that the group at stage four has achieved synchrony of social signaling and body language. High-performance teams are comprised of team members possessing complimentary skills and talents, al which are committed to and aligned with the common goals of the department, or organization in general. ...

Investigative Plan

Introduction This paper describes an investigative plan designed to deal with the spate of daytime robberies occurring recently in this city. The plan will draw upon the limited information obtained by our police officers in respect of each of the robberies. Aspects covered in the investigative plan will include the investigative steps needed, the technological assistance/support required, the analysis of any pattern to the robberies, the method(s) to be used to synthesize the available data, the types of investigative units to be used, and the procurement of needed supplies and equipment (which might require additional funding).

Investigative Steps Required

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According to statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice, a woman in the United States is raped every two minutes. Further one among four women in the United States is either a victim of rape or attempted rape. These statistics further reveal that in these rapes, the victims usually know their attackers or ravishers. In addition, around 57% of these rapes have involved victims of dates. Essentially, these statistics reveal that more than half of rapes occur during dates, otherwise called date rapes. The alarming rate of date rapes definitely requires action to contain these occurrences. The best move would be ...

In the journal titled Mapping the Spatial Influence of Crime Correlates: A Comparison of Operationalization Schemes and Implications for Crime Analysis and Criminal Justice Practice, Caplan Joel acknowledges the variety of independent variables that have significant direct correlation with particular crime outcomes that decades of research in the field of criminology have identified. The author admits that despite tremendous amount of research in criminology, researchers still understand little about correlates and research factors. He reiterates that there is a meager understanding of the manners in which the factors and correlates of crime become applicable in ways that represent their spatial ...

Crime analysis is a significant method used by law enforcement agencies that assists them in a number of areas that include reducing and preventing crime. Using data that is gathered by several sources, Crime Analysts help answer questions about the people involved in the crime, where the crime occurred and the reasons of crime. During crime analysis, a specific process is followed by the analyst. The steps in the process include: data collection, data organization, data analysis, dissemination and lastly feedback. The media plays a great role in the crime analysis process. An example that can be adequately cited is that of ...

Crime analysis is an important function, exercised by law enforcement agencies. Crucial nature of this function is called forth by the fact that crime analysis results constitute the ground for formation and development of crime prevention and intervention policies and programs at all the level of governance. According to the definition, worked out by Emig, Heck and Kravitz (1980), crime analysis represents a set of systemic analytical processes, aimed at providing timely relevant information about crime, its patterns’ and trends’ correlations. As it is stated in the study by R.Boba (2005), despite the fact that crime analysis is conducted ...

Crime analysis refers to the systematic procedure of collection, collation, analysis, and propagation of information to offer judicious information relating to patterns and trends of crime (Meier et. al, 2001). In most cases, the analysis is of crimes that have eluded conventional preventive measures Vellani and Nahoun, 2001). It differs from analysis of crime in the sense that analysis of crime is used to solve crime, whereas crime analysis is used to prevent crime. Accordingly, crime analysis is more of a tactical device that enables law enforcement personnel to calculate or anticipate the occurrence of a crime. The information obtained ...

Abstract

The term surveillance originates from the French language and it means “watching over” Surveillance is the act of monitoring activities and behavior as well as people’s surreptitious changing of information. Surveillance mostly refers to a private observation of individuals or groups of people by government organizations. Also, disease surveillance is process of monitoring the disease progress in a given community. The term surveillance can as well be applied to distance observations by electronic equipment means. A good example of electronic equipments used for surveillance is a CCTV camera. Another surveillance method is through electronically transmitted information interceptions through phones calls and ...