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This chapter examines the key themes that have emerged in the numerous books and academic publications that have focused on crime analysis to date. The chapter summarises elements of key texts by Rachel Boba Santos, Ronald Clarke and John Eck and Jerry Ratcliffe among others. These texts are divided into two broad categories: technical instruction and analysis of analysis, but they are all linked by certain common threads such as the history of the profession, underpinning criminological theories or specific analytical techniques. Here we provide you with an overview that indexes which texts include which themes to help direct your further reading.
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Bland, M. (2022). Writing About Crime Analysis. In: Bland, M., Ariel, B., Ridgeon, N. (eds) The Crime Analyst's Companion. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94364-6_7
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