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CRIME ANALYSIS COMPREHENSIVE EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH DETAILED VERIFIED AND 100% ACCURATE
ANSWERS BRAND NEW EXAM ALREADY GRADED A+ PASS
What are the goals of crime analysis? Ans✓✓✓ The goals of crime
analysis are to assist police in criminal apprehension, crime and disorder
reduction, crime prevention, and evaluation.


What are the three main functions of crime mapping? Ans✓✓✓ The
three functions of crime mapping are to facilitate visual and statistical
analyses of the spatial nature of crime and other types of events, to
enable analysis to link unlike data sources based on common geographic
variables, and to provide maps that help to communicate analysis results.


What each crime analysis is about? Ans✓✓✓ Criminal Intelligence
Analysis is about repeat offenders, repeat victims, and criminal
organizations. Tactical Crime Analysis is about short term development
of patrol, investigative priorities, and deployment of resources. Strategic
Crime Analysis are directed towards development and evaluation of long
term strategies, policies, and prevention techniques. Administrative
Crime Analysis is about the administrative needs of the police agency,
its government, and its community.


How does the history of Crime Mapping and Crime Analysis differ from
one another? Ans✓✓✓ The History of Crime Mapping and Crime
Analysis are different from the beginning of their history. Crime
Mapping began through the work of researchers and Crime Analysis was
from the police officers. Both started in the 1800s and the early 1900s.

,What are the three opportunity theories? Ans✓✓✓ The three
opportunity theories are rational choice theory, crime pattern theory, and
routine activity theory.


What is Rational Choice Theory? Ans✓✓✓ Rational choice theory is
about how offenders will make choices about committing crimes based
on anticipated risks and rewards. If given the right "opportunity", any
person will commit a crime. The individuals will decide to not commit if
the risks are too high.


What is Crime Pattern Theory? Ans✓✓✓ Crime pattern theory suggests
that crime will most likely occur in areas where the activity space of
potential offenders overlaps with the activity space of potential targets.
The individuals will commit crimes in places they know.


What is Routine Activities Theory? Ans✓✓✓ examines the increased
range of opportunities to commit crime by motivated offenders based on
changes in the modern world. This could be done with the use of internet
or interstate highways.


Draw the Crime Triangle. Ans✓✓✓


Name the four types for displacement of crimes. Ans✓✓✓ the four types
are Spatial displacement, Temporal displacement, Target displacement,
and Tactical displacement.

, Explain the four types for displacement of crimes. Ans✓✓✓ Spatial
displacement is the shifting of an activity from targets in one area to
those in another area. Temporal displacement is the shifting of an
activity from one time to another. Target displacement is the shifting of
the choice of one target to a more vulnerable target. Tactical
displacement is the shifting of tactics by offenders.


Explain why crime analysis does not directly affect crime reduction.
Ans✓✓✓ People a lot of times are able to answer this question when
using a side by side comparison involving doctors. A doctor uses a MRI
to come up with a diagnosis. The MRI itself is not able to cure the
illness of a person. The doctor then uses this diagnosis to come up with
an effective treatment for the illness. In the case of crime analysis, the
MRI would be the crime analysis, the crime analysis can come up with a
diagnosis and gives it to the officers to come up with a strategy to
approach the problem. Crime analysis does indirectly affect crime
reduction.


What are the differences between Environmental criminology and
Traditional criminology? Ans✓✓✓ Traditional criminology tries to
figure out why this person is a criminal and what from their past led
them to where they are now. Environmental criminology assumes the
person is apart of the crime triangle. Another look It is also stated that
the criminal has the motivators always there. The goal of is not to
explain why a specific offender commits a specific crime, but to
understand the various aspects of a criminal event in order to identify
patterns of behavior and environmental factors that create opportunities
for crime and other unwanted activity.

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