NCJ Number
168469
Journal
Journal of Criminal Justice Education Volume: 8 Issue: 1 Dated: (Spring 1997) Pages: 19-35
Date Published
1997
Length
17 pages
Annotation
Since criminal justice curricula in United States colleges generally do not include classes in applied law enforcement research -- that is, the techniques and methods of crime and intelligence analysis -- this article, written by an applied research practitioner, describes various types of analysis used in law enforcement and how they might be included in college criminal justice curricula.
Abstract
The types of analyses discussed include association analysis, telephone-record analysis, crime analysis, financial analysis, and psychological profiling. The author describes the role of analysis in an eight-step law enforcement intelligence process, discusses the need to add crime and intelligence analysis to the criminal justice curriculum, and suggests ways to provide these subjects in criminal justice programs, including teaching and guest lectures by practitioners, as well as team teaching. The terminology of law enforcement analysis is explained, and some examples of analytical products are provided. The author advises that including instruction in practical research techniques in college criminal justice courses would make criminal justice graduates better researchers, better analysts, better investigators, and better police managers. Courses in these techniques would also create an awareness of a law enforcement specialty that does not include street-level policing. 5 figures and 18 references