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  2. Crime mapping - Wikipedia

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    Crime mapping is used by analysts in law enforcement agencies to map, visualize, and analyze crime incident patterns. It is a key component of crime analysis and the CompStat policing strategy. Mapping crime, using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), allows crime analysts to identify crime hot spots , along with other trends and patterns.

  3. Crime pattern theory - Wikipedia

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    Crime pattern theory is a way of explaining why people commit crimes in certain areas. Crime is not random, it is either planned or opportunistic. [citation needed] According to the theory crime happens when the activity space of a victim or target intersects with the activity space of an offender.

  4. Cultural criminology - Wikipedia

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    Cultural criminology is a subfield in the study of crime that focuses on the ways in which the "dynamics of meaning underpin every process in criminal justice, including the definition of crime itself." [1]: 6 In other words, cultural criminology seeks to understand crime through the context of culture and cultural processes. [2]

  5. Peter K. Manning - Wikipedia

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    The Technology of Policing: Crime Mapping, Information Technology and the Rationality of Crime Control; Democratic Policing in a Changing World with Michael W. Raphael; Manning, Peter K. (2010). Democratic Policing in a Changing World. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers. ISBN 978-1-59451-546-0.

  6. Crime analysis - Wikipedia

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    Crime analysis is a law enforcement function that involves systematic analysis for identifying and analyzing patterns and trends in crime and disorder.Information on patterns can help law enforcement agencies deploy resources in a more effective manner, and assist detectives in identifying and apprehending suspects.

  7. Criminalization - Wikipedia

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    Criminalization or criminalisation, in criminology, is "the process by which behaviors and individuals are transformed into crime and criminals". [1] Previously legal acts may be transformed into crimes by legislation or judicial decision.

  8. Sociomapping - Wikipedia

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    Sociomapping takes into account that, particularly in case of social relations, relational data may be asymmetrical (e.g. John like Mary more than she likes him) and preserves this information by mapping the objects in such a way that for each object the closest other object is the one closest to it according to the metric of choice in the ...

  9. Principles of Criminology - Wikipedia

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    The 1934 edition contained a paragraph claiming that crime is brought about by a conflict of behaviours that originate from different cultures. This was the seed of Sutherland's theory of differential association, which was fully developed in the fourth edition, published in 1947.