Applications in Criminal Analysis

A practicing analyst combines broad training and research and hands-on experience in this first comprehensive reference/text assessing criminal, investigative, and strategic analysis techniques and reports, while showing how they support every facet of law enforcement today. The sourcebook gives a history of the field of analysis and of the education and training of analysts; lists and describes analytical techniques in an easy-to-access A to Z arrangement; offers a step-by-step approach to the development of public and strategic reports; discusses the applications of analytical techniques in violent crime, organized crime, narcotics, white collar crime, and street crime; highlights the work of important agencies, organizations, and individuals in the field of analysis; and points to future needs and uses for criminal analysis. A glossary, appendix description of computer software, and lengthy bibliography further enrich this reference guide and teaching tool for analysts, law enforcement officers, and criminal justice students and experts.

.,."[E]nough plaudits cannot be ascribed to this work or to Marilyn Peterson. She has bundled the essence of criminal information analysis in a manner that allows analysts, supervisors, managers and executives to fully understand. Appropriately entitled, '...A SOURCEBOOK, ' this volume could easily have been titled - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Criminal Analysis But Didn't Know What To Ask Or Where To Find It.... The Author both introduces new arrivals to this field, and reinforces for the experienced analysts, an array of methodologies and analytical concepts not found in any other singular writing. To put it most simply, APPLICATIONS IN CRIMINAL ANALYSIS is a prolific piece of work."-INTELSCOPE, "The strength of the book is Peterson's examples of how an analyst might assist in selected types of complex criminal prosecutions....[A] good starting point for a prosecutor considering the use of an analyst, or for a defense attorney expecting to face one at trial."-Wisconsin Lawyer, ?...[E]nough plaudits cannot be ascribed to this work or to Marilyn Peterson. She has bundled the essence of criminal information analysis in a manner that allows analysts, supervisors, managers and executives to fully understand. Appropriately entitled, '...A SOURCEBOOK, ' this volume could easily have been titled - Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Criminal Analysis But Didn't Know What To Ask Or Where To Find It.... The Author both introduces new arrivals to this field, and reinforces for the experienced analysts, an array of methodologies and analytical concepts not found in any other singular writing. To put it most simply, APPLICATIONS IN CRIMINAL ANALYSIS is a prolific piece of work.?-INTELSCOPE, ?For those in the field, this book serves an an overview of analytical techniques. For those who are not, it serves as an all-around introduction to analysis.?-The Literature of Criminal Justice, ?Marilyn Peterson is an experienced intelligence officer and has shown in this book her understanding of what a practicing law enforcement intelligence analyst needs to know. She describes and explains the many techniques employed in criminal analysis and includes and excellent bibliography, and index and an extensive glossary of intelligence terms.?-Journal of the AIPIO

MARILYN B. PETERSON is a management specialist for an agency having statewide responsibility for the investigation of criminal justice matters. She has worked in criminal analysis since 1980 for agencies in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. She is a Certified Criminal Analyst and has taught intelligence subjects internationally. She is co-editor (with P. Andrews) of Criminal Intelligence Analysis (1990); contributor to A Handbook of Organized Crime in the United States, edited by Robert Kelly, Rufus Schatzberg, and Ko-lin Chin (Greenwood Press, 1994), and has written at length on analytical techniques for, and developed basic and advanced seminars on, criminal analysis.