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The Technology of Policing : Crime Mapping, Information Technology, and the Rationality of Crime Control.

With the rise of surveillance technology in the last decade, police departments now have an array of sophisticated tools for tracking, monitoring, even predicting crime patterns. In particular crime mapping, a technique used by the police to monitor crime by the neighborhoods in their geographic reg...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Manning, Peter K.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : NYU Press, 2008.
Colección:New Perspectives on Crime, Deviance, and Law Series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:With the rise of surveillance technology in the last decade, police departments now have an array of sophisticated tools for tracking, monitoring, even predicting crime patterns. In particular crime mapping, a technique used by the police to monitor crime by the neighborhoods in their geographic regions, has become a regular and relied-upon feature of policing. Many claim that these technological developments played a role in the crime drop of the 1990s, and yet no study of these techniques and their relationship to everyday police work has been made available. Noted scholar Peter K. Manning s.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (340 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-318) and index.
ISBN:9780814764442
0814764444