Useful books for crime and intelligence, geospatial, problem-solving and strategic analysts in policing and public safety professions

books to keep nearby

Books useful for analysts to have nearby. Some are guides solely using specific software as found in police agencies (ArcGIS Pro).

Understanding Crime, Analyzing the Geography of Crime

Understanding Crime and Place

Reducing Crime

The Crime Analyst's Companion (link to free download)

Elements of Crime Patterns

Writing with Sweet Clarity

A Handbook for Intelligence and Crime Analysis

Structured Analytic Techniques for Intelligence Analysis

Social Network Analysis and Law Enforcement

Tactical Crime Analysis

Modern Policing Using ArcGIS Pro

Twenty-One Mental Models that can change policing, Mitchell

Evidence Based Policing

Evidence Based Policing: The Basics, Ratcliffe (*one to keep nearby*)

Evidence-Based Policing Translating Research into Practice, Lum and Koper

Experimental Designs, Barak Ariel, Matt Bland, Alex Sutherland

Advances in Evidence-Based Policing, Knutsson and Tompson

The Globalization of Evidence-Based Policing

Evidence-Based Policing An Introduction, Mitchell and Huey

Problem Oriented Policing

Problem-Oriented Policing, Herman Goldstein

Problem-Oriented Policing, Successful Case Studies

Problem-oriented Policing and Partnerships

Crime reduction and Problem-oriented Policing

perspectives on policing

Police innovation

I was pointed in the direction of this book which is brilliant. It provides contrasting accounts on the full extent of policing approaches (Community Policing, Procedural Justice, Broken Windows, POP, Pulling Levers, Third-Party Policing, Hot Spots, Predictive Policing, COMPSTAT, EBP and Technology Policing)