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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Manning, Peter K.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : NYU Press, 2008.
Series:New Perspectives on Crime, Deviance, and Law Series.
Subjects:
Digital mapping.
Crime prevention > United States.
Information retrieval > United States.
Crime analysis > United States > Data processing.
Cartographie par ordinateur.
Recherche de l'information > États-Unis.
Criminalité > Analyse > États-Unis > Informatique.
Crime analysis > Data processing
Crime prevention
Digital mapping
Information retrieval
United States
Offers.
changing.
crime.
departments.
influence.
information.
management.
police.
significant.
technologys.
undeniable.
understanding.
world.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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