Discuss the two most important discoveries in criminology in the past 50 years: hot-spots and chronic offenders. Name and explain the type of research that has allowed us to identify hot spots, describe what we have learned about hot-spots and what we mean by hot-spots policing, and discuss what the article I asked you to read says about hot-spots policing. Name and explain the type of research that was done to identify the existence of chronic offenders and the results of this research. Why are these discoveries important?

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Hot Spots in Criminology 1 Type of Research Identifying Hot Spots The identification of hot spots in criminology is often associated with spatial analysis and geographic information systems GIS Resear... View the full answer