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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... (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, 2000). Appropriations were effectively zero in 1980 required to commit to. CHAPTER. 1. TERENCE. DUNWORTH. The purpose of this chapter is to provide an historical perspective for the most prominent ...
... Washington, D.C., metropolitan area sought answers to the sniper shootings, law enforcement agencies called on the Department of Justice to use mapping techniques to predict the snipers' next target.21 Yet gathering spatial data from ...
... (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1931). 7. The most significant of these was the Cleveland Survey of Criminal Justice. Led by Felix Frankfurter and Roscoe Pound, this inquiry produced Criminal Justice in Cleveland (Cleveland ...
... (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice). (NCJ FS000067) 13. Office of Community Oriented Policing Services, "Making Officer Redeployment Effective (MORE): Using Technology to Keep America's Communities Safe," COPS Fact Sheet (Washington ...
... (Washington, DC: National 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 ...
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 |