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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... Strategies and Their Relationship to Crime Analysis and IT 131 Policy Implications and Issues 136 Case Studies 140 7. Geographic Information Systems and Crime Mapping in Criminal Justice Agencies 147 APRIL PATTAVINA Theoretical and ...
... strategic and tactical planning and decision making. These objectives will not have equal weight with every agency. For instance, police departments are strongly motivated by the need to gain greater understanding of the problem of ...
... strategic purposes for planning agencies, crime prevention units, patrol and investigative commanders, and community relations units in terms of their programmatic, planning, development, and evaluation functions. Law enforcement ...
... strategic and tactical decision making on sound information, determine resource deployment on a proactive rather than a reactive basis, and execute many other functions that either were impossible to perform under earlier systems or ...
... strategic method. w As the federal prosecuting office for Manhattan, Bronx, and other counties in and around New York City, SDNY works with numerous local, state, and federal agencies. In many cases, information collected hy one agency ...
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 |