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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... INTERNET 57 3. How Criminal Justice Agencies Use The Internet 59 ROBERTA E. GRIFFITH Law Enforcement 60 Information Seeking 61 Information Dissemination 61 Information Management 63 Cybercrime and Invesrigative Methods 63 Future Uses 65 ...
... Internet but also with how criminals use the Internet. The subject of Chapter 3, by Roberta Griffith, is a discussion of various ways in which the Internet has changed the way that criminal justice agencies manage information. In ...
... Internet access by citizens as technologies that are prerequisites to effective policing.1* The five stages of crime analysis illustrate the natural fit with the IT revolution: 1. Data collection. Most local crime data are generated by ...
... Internet is not a completely satisfactory way of dealing with criminal justice agencies' information dissemination problems. First, not all residents use or have access to the Internet, and some do not even have computers. In general ...
... protections of individual privacy. Cybercrime With the onset of technological advances, criminals have also found innovative ways in which to exploit technology to commit crimes. The Internet, although IT and the Criminal Justice System 21.
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 |