Role of Crime Analysis in SHO/DI (Serious Habitual Offender/Drug Involved) (Form Serious Habitual Offender/Drug Involved Program (SHO/DI), Volume 1: Informational Commentaries, Phase I, 1986, P 13.1-13.13, Robert O Heck et al -- See NCJ-108314)

• NCJ Number: 108327
• Author(s): R O Heck; W Pindur; D M Raymond
• Date Published: 1986
• Length: 13 pages
• Corporate Author: US Dept of Justice
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Type: Program Description (Demonstrative)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: For microfiche, see NCJ-108314.

Annotation

An established crime analysis unit (CAU) is essential to the development of a juvenile serious habitual offender/drug involved (SHO/DI) program.

Abstract

In Colorado Springs, Colo., crime analysis focuses on sexual assault, robbery, and burglary. The process involves data collection and collation, analysis of crime patterns, dissemination of information to police patrol and investigation divisions, and feedback and evaluation. Information sources for analysis include files on continuing juvenile offenders, juvenile congregation locations, drug traffickers and their activities, case reports, criminal histories, and court and correctional data. Computerized files include a master juvenile name roster, link and telephone analysis files, and crime analysis files. When a case enters the data system, the CAU reduces the data into specific categories required for pattern detection and suspect correlations. If the suspect is a juvenile, a search is made for juvenile offender data correlations. SHO/DI files are searched for applicable activity/modus operandi correlations. SHO/DI files contain profiles that provide a variety of information useful in patrol and investigation, case filing and presentation, and juvenile correctional evaluation reports. 4 footnotes.