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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... justice during the previous 10 years," this was the first national review of justice administration in the United States ... Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice (the precursor agency to today's National Institute of Justice) ...
... Justice System Improvement Act, which took the building blocks created by the LEAA and converted them into the federal system for dealing with state and local criminal justice issues that we know today. An independent National Institute ...
... institute the more complex reporting level for all participating agencies. Representing both an expansion of the UCR system and a major conceptual shift, the NIBRS is an incident-based system that collects detailed information on ...
... Justice," in The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society: Looking Back, Looking Forward (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice ... Institute for Law and Justice, 2004). (NCJ 204026) 19. See, for instance, National Partnership for ...
... Institute of Justice, 1999). (FS000237) 25. Eugene Poggio, Stephen Kennedy, Jan Chaiken, and Kenneth Carlson, Blueprint for the future of the Uniform Crime Reporting System: final Report of the UCR Study (Washington, DC: Bureau of Justice ...
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 |