Crime Hot Spots Are Areas Where Crime Reports, Calls for Police

question 4

Essay

Crime hot spots are areas where crime reports, calls for police service, or other measures of crime are especially common. Police in departments with a good analytic capability routinely identify hot spots and launch special tactics to reduce crime in these areas. What kinds of validity threats should researchers be especially attentive to in studying the effects of police interventions on hot spots?

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Definitions:

Impulse Control

The ability to resist or delay an impulse, drive, or temptation to act and is a facet of emotional intelligence.

Frontal Lobes

The part of the brain located at the front of each cerebral hemisphere, responsible for voluntary movement, expressive language, decision making, and regulating social behavior.

Basal Ganglia

A group of structures in the brain involved in the control of voluntary motor movements, procedural learning, habit learning, eye movements, cognition, and emotion.

Limbic System

The Limbic System is a complex set of structures in the brain that deals with emotions and memory. It plays a key role in emotional responses and formation of memories.