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Overview
Crime Analysis and Crime Mapping, one of the first texts to introduce crime analysis and crime mapping to an undergraduate audience, is enriched by author Rachel Boba's unique perspective as a current professor and former crime analyst. The book offers a thorough introduction to the field as well as guidelines for its practice, making it a useful asset for current and future crime analysts and police practitioners as well as for students.
Editorials
Gloria Laycock
"This book is a timely arrival in the growing field of crime analysis. It is comprehensive, readable and full of good advice and common sense - and a must for anyone planning to make a serious impact as an analyst within a police agency or elsewhere. We will certainly be recommending it to our students. "Marissa Potchak
"This book is definitely needed in the field. Not publishing this book would be a disservice to all criminologists. Strengths – exercises, examples, figures, and ability to cover all necessary parts of the course in one tidy location ...This book would be perfect."Professor Gloria Laycock
"This book is a timely arrival in the growing field of crime analysis. It is comprehensive, readable and full of good advice and common sense - and a must for anyone planning to make a serious impact as an analyst within a police agency or elsewhere. We will certainly be recommending it to our students."Book Details
Published
August 12, 2005
Publisher
Sage Publications, Inc
Pages
320
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780761930921