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Crime Analysis and Crime Mapping

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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.

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.

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.