Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1) Crime analysis is mostly conducted in small police agencies in the United States.
2) The beginnings of crime mapping are different from the beginnings of crime analysis in that crime mapping began through the work of researchers in the 1800s and the early 1900s.
3) The first substantive spatial analysis of crime in Europe was conducted in the 1920s and 1930s by urban sociologists.
4) Scholars’ focus on the geographic analysis of criminal events and problem-oriented policing increased attention to crime analysis in the 1970s and 1980s.
5) Implementation of Compstat in police agencies across the United States fueled the rapid adoption of crime mapping in the mid- to late 1990s.


1. False
2. True
3. False
4. True
5. True

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