City Crime Rankings 2008-2009: Crime in Metropolitan America - Couverture souple

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ISBN 10 : 0872899322 ISBN 13 : 9780872899322

Editeur : CQ Press, 2008

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Biographie de l'auteur :

Kathleen O Leary Morgan holds a master s degree in public administration and has served in a number of media and legislative liaison positions with the U.S. Department of Transportation, where she also served as deputy director of Congressional Affairs. Together with Scott Morgan, she has compiled state and city rankings books for almost two decades. Scott Morgan is an attorney who served as chief counsel to Sen. Robert Dole s 1988 presidential campaign. Together with Kathleen O''''Leary Morgan, he has compiled state and city rankings books for almost two decades. Dr. Rachel Boba is an assistant professor at Florida Atlantic University in the Criminology and Criminal Justice program. At FAU, she teaches methods of research, criminal justice systems, crime prevention, problem solving, and analysis in policing as well as conducts research in the areas of problem solving, problem analysis, crime analysis, regional data sharing, and technology in policing. From 2000 to 2003, Dr. Boba was Director of the Police Foundation''s Crime Mapping Laboratory where she directed federally funded grants in the areas of crime analysis and crime mapping, problem analysis, and school safety. Prior to her position at the Police Foundation, she worked as a crime analyst at the Tempe, Arizona, Police Department for five years where she conducted a wide variety of crime analysis and crime mapping work as well as applied research and evaluation. She holds a PhD and an MA in sociology from Arizona State University and a BA in English and sociology from California Lutheran University.

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Find out how your community fares in the fight against crime. This new edition of City Crime Rankings provides easy-to-understand crime comparisons for cities and metro areas throughout the United States. Numbers, rates and trends for total crime, violent crime, murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, property crime, burglary, larceny-theft and motor vehicle theft are presented in both alphabetical and rank order for all metro areas and cities of 75,000 or more population. Also included are numbers and rates of police in cities. Americans want to know about crime in their communities. City Crime Rankings 2008-2009 provides this essential information in one comprehensive, user-friendly volume.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: CQ Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0872899322
• ISBN 13: 9780872899322
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 417