What Does a Crime Analyst Do?
Criminal intelligence analysis is an important auxiliary means of criminal law enforcement. This book describes crime intelligence analysis, which can be classified differently according to different classification criteria.
Criminal Intelligence Analysis
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- Criminal Intelligence Analysis
- Criminal intelligence analysis is an important auxiliary means of criminal law enforcement. This book describes crime intelligence analysis, which can be classified differently according to different classification criteria.
- Criminal intelligence analysis is an important auxiliary means of criminal law enforcement. That is, criminal intelligence analysts read and browse a large number of crime reports (such as alarm records, arrest records, judgments, etc.) to find commonality or other connections between different crime cases, and identify specific crime modes ( crime pattern) and crime trend, special activities to provide assistance in crime prevention and investigation.
- Different scholars have different views on the origin of criminal intelligence analysis. However, mainstream opinion holds that criminal intelligence analysis is a criminal law enforcement aid that has gradually emerged and developed in Western countries since the 1960s. For example, when introducing criminal intelligence analysis on the Interpol website, it was stated that "criminal intelligence analysis, sometimes called crime analysis, is an effective tool to support criminal law enforcement; criminal intelligence analysis has a history of 25 years. Especially in the past ten years, the status and role of criminal intelligence analysis in the global criminal law enforcement practice has been established.
- Criminal intelligence analysis can be classified differently according to different classification criteria.
- 1. According to the role of criminal intelligence analysis in criminal law enforcement activities, it can be divided into tactical intelligence analysis and strategic crime analysis. The former is also called action crime intelligence analysis, that is, according to the conclusion of its crime intelligence analysis, law enforcement agencies can be used to take specific tactical actions such as search and arrest; the latter is aimed at a larger area, in a certain area The analysis and research of crime laws and characteristics in a relatively long period of time mainly serve the decision makers in the allocation of criminal law enforcement resources and the introduction of new criminal policies.
- 2. According to the scientific theoretical framework on which criminal intelligence analysis is based, it can be divided into criminal psychological intelligence analysis, criminal spatial intelligence analysis, and crime-related intelligence analysis. The analysis of criminal psychological intelligence is mainly to analyze the behavior habits and individual psychology of the criminals in the series of criminal cases in the series of criminal cases, and to help identify and investigate suspects. Criminal spatial intelligence analysis is an analysis of a series of criminal cases and other cases involving multiple crime sites. By analyzing the internal relationship between different crime sites, the suspect's fixed place of stay or hiding place is judged, so that Reduce the scope of investigation and improve the efficiency of investigation. The analysis of crime-related intelligence is to use the theory of correlation analysis in the field of computer science to search and dig out information related to a specific case or a specific suspect in many criminal intelligence databases to provide intelligence analysis services for law enforcement agencies.