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Crime Analysis With Crime Mapping, Fifth Edition provides students and practitioners with a solid introduction to the conceptual nature and practice of crime analysis and how it assists police in crime reduction. Author Rachel Boba Santos delves into this emerging field, providing guidelines and techniques for conducting crime analysis supported by evidence-based research, real world application, and recent innovations in the field. As the only introductory core text for crime analysis, this must-have resource presents readers with opportunities to apply theory, research methods, and statistics to careers that support and enhance the effectiveness of modern policing.

Using the latest FBI crime statistics, City Crime Rankings 2015 provides easy-to-understand crime comparisons for cities and metropolitan areas throughout the United States. Numbers, rates, and trends for total crime, violent crime, murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, property crime, burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft are presented in both alphabetical and rank order for all metro areas and cities of 75,000 or more. Numbers and rates of police in cities are also included. A revised introduction gives a summary of and notes about the data, as well as the methodology behind the overall rankings allowing researchers to cite statistics with context.City Crime Rankings offers thorough and accurate statistics for more than 380 metropolitan areas and nearly 450 cities, featuring: MethodologyDistribution AnalysisNotes Regarding City and Metro Crime Data2014 Metropolitan Crime Rate Rankings2014 City Crime Rate RankingsMetropolitan Area and City Crime StatisticsMetropolitan and City Populations

Researchers and legislators grapple with how to appropriate funds across their respective state even as federal and state funding decrease in today’s economic tumult. Fortunately, Crime State Rankings 2011 compares the 50 states and Washington, DC, in more than 500 crime-related categories.The formula and methodology are discussed in a narrative chapter allowing researchers to cite statistics with context. Crime State Rankings 2011 includes data on:•    Arrests•    Courts•    Drug and alcohol treatment•    Corrections•    Juvenile justice •    Law enforcement expenditures•    Offenses•    Crime clearances•    And much more