Discuss the three most common approaches to evaluating prospective crime hot spot maps. If academics were unable to combine these approaches, which one do you believe would be the most accurate? Why?

What will be an ideal response?


A strong answer will identify the three most common approaches as the hit rate, predictive accuracy index, and recapture rate index, and evaluate their abilities based on the information presented in the text.

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