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 Law Enforcement Operations and Planning with Crime Mapping Review Questions 2

(Answers are provided below)


1. Which type of crime mapping is specifically used to assist operational units in identifying immediate crime patterns and series for patrol deployment?

A. Strategic crime mapping

B. Administrative crime mapping

C. Tactical crime mapping

D. Predictive crime mapping


2. What spatial analysis technique is primarily employed to visualize areas with a disproportionately high volume of criminal activity?

A. Linear analysis

B. Hotspot analysis

C. Centroid analysis

D. Cold spot analysis


3. Which application of crime mapping focuses on the relationship between an offender's home base and the locations of their crimes?

A. Demographic profiling

B. Psychological profiling

C. Topographical profiling

D. Geographic profiling


4. In the context of the CLE, what is the primary purpose of 'Administrative Crime Mapping'?

A. To conduct DNA analysis

B. To identify patrol routes

C. To inform the community

D. To catch serial killers


5. Which GIS tool allows investigators to create a zone around a specific location, such as a school, to analyze crimes occurring within that radius?

A. Geocoding

B. Layering

C. Buffering

D. Rasterizing


6. When a crime map shows crime shifting from a patrolled area to a nearby unpatrolled area, this phenomenon is known as:

A. Spatial autocorrelation

B. Target hardening

C. Diffusion of benefits

D. Crime displacement


7. Which specific analysis looks at the 'when' and 'where' of crime simultaneously to identify patterns in timing and location?

A. Spatiotemporal analysis

B. Topographical analysis

C. Demographic analysis

D. Bivariate analysis


8. What is the process called when a crime analyst assigns geographic coordinates to a written police report address to place it on a map? 

A. Geocoding

B. Interpolation

C. Digitizing

D. Data mining


9. Which crime mapping application is most useful for long-term resource allocation, budget planning, and evaluating crime prevention programs?

A. Strategic crime mapping

B. Intelligence mapping

C. Tactical crime mapping

D. Operational mapping


10. The use of GIS to map 'Environmental Criminology' factors typically involves looking at which of the following?

A. Offender DNA sequences

B. National poverty statistics

C. Courtroom sentencing data

D. Lighting and building design


CFLM 2 Review Questions 1


Answer:

1. C

2. B

3. D

4. C

5. C

6. D

7. A

8. A

9. A

10. D