Information Technology and the Criminal Justice SystemApril Pattavina How has information technology changed the way we monitor criminal behavior? How has it changed the way we examine patterns of criminal behavior? How have criminal justice organizations adapted to using information technology? What is the future of information in criminal justice? There have been many technical, analytical, legal, and organizational issues related to advances in computer and information technology over the past several decades. Given the substantial investments that federal, state, and local criminal justice agencies are making in information technology, they now consider it an integral component of understanding how our criminal justice system works.
Information Technology and the Criminal Justice System is recommended for upper level undergraduate and graduate level courses in Criminal Justice departments, including Information Technology and Criminal Justice; Criminal Justice Data Analysis; Crime Analysis; Technology and Criminal Justice; and Technology and Society. This book is also an excellent resource for professionals in the field. |
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... CompStat (derived from the phrase "computer statistics"), is used for both performance management and crime analysis. On a weekly basis, top-level NYPD command staff members hold a CompStat meeting at which borough and precinct staff ...
... CompStat. More recently, in a significant number of other departments, spatial mapping has been used to detect crime trends and displacement and to predict future crime incidents. In October 2002, as the Washington, D.C., metropolitan ...
... CompStat Model for Police Management (Arlington, VA: PricewaterhouseCoopers Endowment for the Business of Government, 2001). 21. Sara Michael, "Justice to Create Regional Data Store," federal Computer Week, 1 1 August 2003. 22. Ibid. 23 ...
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Contents
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Acquiring Implementing and Evaluating Information Technology | 29 |
THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE | 57 |
The Internet as a Conduit for Criminal Activity | 77 |
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY | 99 |
Information Technology and Crime Analysis | 125 |
Police Strategies and Their Relationship | 131 |
Geographic Information Systems | 147 |
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY | 167 |
Using | 195 |
Environment Technology | 221 |
THE FUTURE OF INFORMATION | 241 |
The Future of Information Technology | 261 |
Index | 273 |
About the Editor | 287 |