Deck 13: Crime Mapping and Analysis

Question 1

A crime analyst's job may include:

A)securing the evidence.
B)identifying factors contributing to a crime pattern.
C)retrieving the evidence from property.
D)preparing evidence for the private sector.

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Which of the following is a computerized system that consists of a constellation of hardware and software that integrates computer graphics with a relational database?

A)COPe
B)GPS
C)GIS
D)All of the above

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of the following are nontraditional databases often used by crime analysts?

A)Motor vehicle registration
B)Pawn data
C)New media
D)All of the above

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which of the following maps crime forecasts by geographic area to provide a jurisdiction wide scan for areas needing changes in tactical deployment of police?

A)ForecastStat
B)Crime early warning system
C)Macro level system
D)StrategyStat

Question 5

The use of computerized crime mapping in applied crime analysis most likely occurred:

A)in the 1960s in St.Louis,MO.
B)in the 1980s in Des Moines,IA.
C)in the 1800s in St.Louis,MO.
D)in the 1960s in Los Angeles,CA.

Question 6

Maps which help investigators determine where serial criminals most likely reside are called:

A)criminal geographical targeting models.
B)proximity mapping model.
C)hot spot.
D)specific crime analysis mapping.

Question 7

The Oakland California website that allows individuals to map a selection of various crimes is called:

A)Baywatch.
B)Crimewatch.
C)GISwatch.
D)Crimegeography.com.

Question 8

In crime mapping,which of the following patterns has points that are equally spaced?

A)Hollow point patterns
B)Clustered patterns
C)Random arrangement
D)Uniform pattern

Question 9

Crime mapping has been around:

A)for the last fifteen years.
B)since the turn of the century.
C)for several thousand years.
D)since the mid 1900s.

Question 10

RMN partners use mapping to pinpoint neighborhoods that experience high concentrations of:

A)drug crimes.
B)sex crimes.
C)burglaries.
D)returning prisoners.

Question 11

Which of the following programs does mapping with bitmap images?

A)Bitmap program
B)School COP program
C)Data location program
D)Spatial data analysis program

Question 12

Which of the following systems are used in major police agencies for crime mapping?

A)Geographic information systems
B)Geographic international systems
C)Data review systems
D)Data mapping systems

Question 13

The Crime Mapping Research Center was established in:

A)1997
B)1985
C)1879
D)1913

Question 14

Areas of concentrated crime are referred to as:

A)control spots.
B)clumped spots.
C)arranged spots.
D)hot spots.

Question 15

Evidence found in what city indicates that crime maps have been around for several thousand years?

A)Athens
B)Alexandria
C)Iraq
D)Iran

Question 16

A crime control model based on computer driven statistics is called:

A)CASE.
B)CMAP.
C)CompStat.
D)CrimeStat.

Question 17

Which of the following functions is made possible by information provided by crime analysts?

A)Solve crimes
B)Find and apprehend offenders
C)Prosecute and convict offenders
D)All of the above

Question 18

A spatial statistics program for the analysis of crime incident locations is called:

A)CrimeStat.
B)GIS.
C)MAPS program.
D)StarkII.

Question 19

Which of the following is a type of information provided by maps?

A)Location
B)Distance
C)Direction
D)All of the above

Question 20

Crime maps can provide a rich variety of information including:

A)race.
B)location.
C)perspective.
D)blood type.

Question 21

CompStat is a crime control model and is based on computer-driven statistics.

Question 22

Crime MAPS is updated with new data every week on Monday.

Question 23

GIS are used in most major police departments for crime mapping.

Question 24

Micro-level crime analysis includes the familiar day-to-day tasks of crime analysts.

Question 25

Crime MAPS allows you to deploy crime early warning systems.

Question 26

__________ systems are used in major police agencies for crime mapping.

Question 27

Street theories explain why crime events occur at specific locations.

Question 28

Providing maps and data to the public is a means to hold the police department accountable.

Question 29

In crime mapping,__________ patterns have points that are equally spaced.

Question 30

Parks and Burgess,starting in the 1920s,and later,Shaw and McKay,studied crime rates in Chicago by mapping the reported crimes on a map.

Question 31

Not all offenses within one report can be queried and mapped.

Question 32

Maps can increase public awareness about neighborhood problems.

Question 33

It is against police policy and security measures to create a HELP file to guide users each step of the mapping process.

Question 34

Crime __________ has been around for several thousand years.

Question 35

Crime maps have been around for several thousand years-perhaps tens of millennia.

Question 36

Repeat victimization theories are theories that pertain to questions of why the same victims are targeted repeatedly.

Question 37

Areas of concentrated crime are often referred to as hot spots.

Question 38

A __________ analyst's job may include identifying factors contributing to a crime pattern.

Question 39

Crime maps could harm a high crime area by increasing property values or decreasing insurance rates.

Question 40

Crime __________ can provide a rich variety of information including location.

Question 41

The Oakland California website that allows individuals to map a selection of various crimes is called __________.

Question 42

A crime control model based on computer driven statistics is called __________.

Question 43

__________ is a spatial statistics program for the analysis of crime incident locations.

Question 44

RMN partners use mapping to pinpoint neighborhoods that experience high concentrations of __________.

Question 45

Evidence found in __________ indicates that crime maps have been around for several thousand years.

Question 46

Maps which help investigators determine where serial criminals most likely reside are called __________models.

Question 47

Crime early warning system maps crime forecasts by __________ area to provide a jurisdiction-wide scan for areas needing changes in tactical deployment of police.

Question 48

School __________ programs utilize bitmap images.

Question 49

Areas of concentrated crime are referred to as __________.