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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... goal of this book is to inform readers that computer and IT should be understood as more than just a set of tools designed to accomplish a discrete set of job tasks. As the chapters in this book illustrate, there are many technical ...
... goals, it seems clear that the agency greatly assisted state and local agencies in beginning to move along the path toward vastly better use of IT than had been the case previously. Although it is true that this stimulus faded for ...
... goals. Federal. Legislation: 1968-1994. The immediate outcome of the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice was the passage of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, which has been the ...
... goal of the NCHIP is to ensure that accurate records are available for use in law enforcement, including sex offender registry requirements. The objective is to give states the ability to identify persons who are ineligible to buy ...
... goal of resolving issues that arise among criminal justice agencies — specifically courts, corrections, parole, and police — during information sharing."1* Today, there are several national databases, administered by the FBI, that ...
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 |