Deck 4: Crime Analysis Process and Application

Question 1

Realigning patrol beat boundaries is an example of using mapping for which type of crime analysis:

A)Tactical crime analysis
B)Strategic crime analysis
C)Administrative crime analysis
D)Operations analysis

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Under administrative crime analysis, which subtype might deal with how much directed patrol was conducted in a hot spot?

A)Districting and re-districting analysis
B)Community-focused analysis
C)Crime analysis for accountability
D)Cost-benefit analysis

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which technique does not stand alone as its own subcategory of analysis; rather, it is a method that occurs within the larger process of crime analysis that focuses specifically on geography?

A)Operations analysis
B)Evidence analysis
C)Administrative Support
D)Crime mapping

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which is NOT a step in the crime analysis process?

A)Data collection
B)Data collation
C)Computer programming
D)Dissemination of results

Question 5

Geocoding is part of what step of the crime analysis process.

A)Data collection
B)Data collation
C)Analysis
D)Dissemination of results

Question 6

Administrative crime analysis is the foundation of all the other types of analysis.

Question 7

Five types of crime analysis include intelligence analysis, criminal analysis, tactical crime analysis, problem crime analysis, and administrative crime analysis.

Question 8

The crime analysis process includes the steps of data collection, data collation, analysis, dissemination of results, and the receipt of feedback from users of the information.

Question 9

When conducting analysis on individuals who have been arrested for and/or convicted for particular crime to link these known offenders to individual crimes or crime patterns, what type of analysis is being conducted?

A)Tactical crime analysis
B)Operations analysis
C)Administrative crime analysis
D)Strategic crime analysis

Question 10

A criminal analyst would use certain tactics such as: repeat offender and victim analysis, criminal history analysis, link analysis, social media analysis, communication analysis, and commodity flow analysis, when conducting which type of analysis?

A)Tactical crime analysis
B)Strategic crime analysis
C)Administrative crime analysis
D)Crime intelligence analysis

Question 11

In which type of analysis is crime mapping used in accountability meetings to evaluate the effectiveness of crime reduction activities by area?

A)Tactical crime analysis
B)Operations analysis
C)Administrative crime analysis
D)Strategic crime analysis

Question 12

A map depicting the relationship of vacant property with disorder calls for service is an example of using mapping for which type of crime analysis:

A)Tactical crime analysis
B)Strategic crime analysis
C)Administrative crime analysis
D)Operations analysis

Question 13

Which of these is a technique performed within police agencies that is almost always part of the tactical crime analysis process?

A)Operations analysis
B)Crime investigative analysis
C)Administrative Support
D)Cost-benefit analysis

Question 14

Which of these is NOT a "type" of crime analysis?

A)Operations
B)Crime Mapping
C)Administrative
D)Tactical

Question 15

The crime analysis data collection requires that the data must be stored for an adequate amount of time to allow for effective analysis.

Question 16

This analysis is an analysis of data directed towards development and evaluation of long-term strategies, policing, and prevention techniques.

A)Crime Intelligence analysis
B)Strategic crime analysis
C)Administrative crime analysis
D)Operations analysis

Question 17

The following is a subprocess of crime analysis in which data collection and collation are changed based on the crime analysis process itself:

A)Data change subcycle
B)Data remodification process
C)Data modification subcycle
D)None of the above

Question 18

Spatial analysis of residential burglary incidents that reveal clusters of activity in a specific neighborhood in the last two weeks is an example of using mapping for which type of crime analysis:

A)Tactical crime analysis
B)Strategic crime analysis
C)Administrative crime analysis
D)Crime intelligence analysis

Question 19

An analysis of the relationships, travel patterns, and economic links between members of a Columbian drug cartel is an example of which type of analysis.

A)Strategic crime analysis
B)Tactical crime analysis
C)Crime intelligence analysis
D)Operations analysis
E)Criminal investigative analysis

Question 20

Crime mapping is essential in all types of analysis.

Question 21

Mapping is one of three forms of tasks that data collation entails.

Question 22

Analysis, takes place after data are collected and prepared.

Question 23

CompStat is NOT considered a type of analysis.

Question 24

Examining calls for service and unit history data to conduct workload calculations by area and shift is a processed used in administrative crime analysis

Question 25

Crime intelligence analysis is NOT considered a type of analysis

Question 26

Crime intelligence analysis sometimes deals with analysis of relationships within the criminal network lie amongst criminal associates, spouses, friends and enemies.

Question 27

Operational analysis subject areas include the analysis of space, time, offender, victim, and modus operandi for individual high-profile crimes, repeat incidents, and crime patterns, with a specific focus on crime series.

Question 28

Collation includes communicating and distributing crime analysis results to various types of audiences.

Question 29

The data modification subcycle a process in which the analyst makes changes to data collection and collation procedures based on insights gained during the analysis.

Question 30

An example of strategic crime analysis would be the analysis of data on the implementation of bright LED lights at every intersection in a specific high crime area.