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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... Evaluating Information Technology 29 Lois M. DAVIS AND BRIAN A. JACKSON Recent Trends in Acquiring and Applying IT 32 IT Acquisition and Implementation 36 Evaluating IT Projects 45 IT and Policy Change: Future Challenges 52 SECTION II ...
... evaluation functions. Law enforcement agencies have been doing some form of crime analysis for as long as they have been in existence. Policing has always been focused rather than random, and it has never simply been reactive rather ...
... Evaluation of the COPS Program: Title I of the 1994 Crime Act (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, 2000); Jeffrey A. Roth, Calvin C. Johnson, Gretchen Maenner, and Daryl E. Herrschaft, "The Flow of COPS Funds," in National ...
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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 |