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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... federal, stare, and local criminal justice agencies are making in IT, the time is appropriate to begin synthesizing the growing body of information about IT and criminal justice in a way that frames the discussion in terms of what we ...
... federal Probation (2nd Quarter 2001); Criminal justice 2000, vol. 3: Policies, Processes, and Decisions of the Criminal Justice System (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, 2000). Appropriations were effectively zero in 1980 ...
... federal policy toward state and local governments, and the second derives its strength from seminal changes in IT. Although the focus of this book is on the latter, it is important to recognize that federal policy shifts and the ...
... federal prisoner data and federal judicial statistics were being accumulated, printed, and disseminated by the office of the U.S. attorney general. These early efforts, although modest, were used for decision making about federal ...
... federal agency that would have both the mandate and the resources to achieve these objectives. The UCR system became the formal manifestation of this principle and over the subsequent three and a half decades came to be the nation's ...
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 |