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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... jurisdictions, were responsible for funding law enforcement activities. Prosecution, adjudication, and jails operated largely at county levels. During the 1960s, however, crime increased rapidly and became a more pressing social problem ...
... jurisdictions at an unprecedented level. Under the MORE (Making Officer Redeployment Effective) program, the OCOPS delivered more than $1.3 billion to nearly 4,500 police departments for the acquisition and implementation of IT systems ...
... jurisdictions became a much more difficult task than was originally thought. Although the process of data collection was expedited, it still took several weeks to receive data from the relevant jurisdictions. And upon receipt, it was ...
... jurisdictions. The FBI maintains criminal history systems for federal offenders and a national criminal records system, including the NCIC and the Interstate Identification Index (III). Individual law enforcement agencies can query them ...
... jurisdictions (so-called "interoperability"). A total of 1,344 agencies responded to the questionnaire. The agencies that were currently using MDTs employed these devices primarily for database information and free text (e.g., reports ...
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 |