Product Description

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.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #699268 in Books
• Published on: 2005-07-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Review

"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."

(Professor Gloria Laycock )

"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."

(Marissa Potchak )

About the Author
Rachel Boba (PhD and MA in sociology from Arizona State University and a BA in English and sociology from California Lutheran University) is an assistant professor at Florida Atlantic University in the Criminology and Criminal Justice program. At FAU, she teaches methods of research, criminal justice systems, crime prevention, problem solving, and analysis in policing as well as conducts research in the areas of problem solving, problem analysis, crime analysis, regional data sharing, and technology in policing. From 2000 to 2003, Dr. Boba was Director of the Police Foundation's Crime Mapping Laboratory where she directed federally funded grants in the areas of crime analysis and crime mapping, problem analysis, and school safety. Prior to her position at the Police Foundation, she worked as a crime analyst at the Tempe, Arizona, Police Department for five years where she conducted a wide variety of crime analysis and crime mapping work as well as applied research and evaluation. 

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Customer Reviews

A very basic introduction
I purchased this book to help me do some analysis of human rights abuses (and also crimes) in Zimbabwe where I work. I was extremely disappointed by the book - I have no degree in geography or any field like criminal justice that might be related to this kind of work yet the contents of this book are so basic that anybody with a grain of sense could have worked it all out for themselves.
The only useful idea I got from the book was that in doing any kind of temporal analysis of criminal activity one should be careful of aggregating data by month as different months 1) are different lengths and 2) have differing numbers of eg Sundays in them. Perhaps I should have worked that out by myself as well!!!
Don't buy this book unless you are of below average intelligence or under the age of 17.

Excellent
Very easy to read and informative; it's a good introduction to Crime Analysis. As an intern, I already have some knowledge of the subject and this is helping to reinforce it.

Comprehensive goal oriented book !
I don't have time for a lot of theory. I need instructional material that must be on target. This well structured book brought me a much needed guideline of both crime analysis and crime mapping. My new system, GREAT.i, will be greatly aided by this comprehensive work.