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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... example of this capability. When entered by hand, addresses frequently contain mistakes; in fact, error rates of 30% to 40% are not uncommon. Now, some departments have every legitimate city address stored in a master file that is ...
... example of such a system on the prosecution side is RACKETS, a case tracking and mapping system that was developed for the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Southern District of New York (SDNY). According to the system's final report ...
... example, in 1997 in Knoxville, Tennessee, the District Public Defender's Office, together with its IT specialist, developed a case management system for case- related multimedia known as Virtual Casefile: Virtual Casefile digitizes and ...
... example, San Diego has grappled with the increased criminal activity that has resulted from criminals' use of technology. In a joint undertaking, the law enforcement community has formed CATCH, a task force that investigates and ...
... example, no one wants a good credit report to be reported as bad due to data errors. Yet in a law enforcement context, the negative effects of inaccurate or incomplete data about individuals can be devastating. In one scenario, a police ...
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 |