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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; Part I: Theorizing; Rationalities; The Dance of Change; The Music and Its Features; Technology's Ways: Imaginative Variations; Part II: Case Studies; Overview of the Case Studies; Western City and Police; Metropolitan Washington and Police; Boston and Police; Part III: Appraising; Contributions of Structure, Content, and Focus to Ordering; Seeing and Saying in the Boston CAM; Generalization; Epilogue; Appendix A: Data and Methods; Appendix B: Professional "Faery Tales" and Serious Organizational Ethnography Compared; Notes; References; Index; About the Author.