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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... operations more effectively, to reduce operating costs, and to engage in more informed strategic and tactical planning and decision making. These objectives will not have equal weight with every agency. For instance, police departments ...
... operations but also can share and integrate that information with the activities of other organizations. This is taking place not only within and between agencies that perform common functions (e.g., police departments), which 1 would ...
... operational manifestation of the principles the commission espoused did not generate long-term acceptance by Congress or the criminal justice community. Congressional willingness to fund the agency dwindled, and after an all-time high ...
... operations will at least radically improve, and perhaps revolutionize, criminal justice. Such advances span ... operational and institutional change is often entailed by adjustments in information processing. That is, IT changes are not ...
... operations. It provides for the storage, retrieval, retention, manipulation, archiving, and viewing of information, records, documents, and hies about every aspect of police business. A comprehensive and fully functioning RMS should ...
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 |