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1 online resource (340 pages) |
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New Perspectives on Crime, Deviance, and Law Series |
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New Perspectives on Crime, Deviance, and Law Series
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
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Offers |
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changing |
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crime |
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departments |
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influence |
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information |
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management |
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police |
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significant |
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technologys |
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undeniable |
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understanding |
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world |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-318) and index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Digital mapping.
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Crime prevention -- United States
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Information retrieval -- United States
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Crime analysis -- United States -- Data processing
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Crime analysis -- Data processing
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Crime prevention
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Digital mapping
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Information retrieval
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814764442 |
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0814764444 |
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