The technology of policing : crime mapping, information technology, and the rationality of crime control / Peter K. Manning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manning, Peter K.

Series:

New perspectives in crime, deviance, and law series.

New perspectives in crime, deviance, and law series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime analysis--United States--Data processing.

Crime analysis.

Information retrieval--United States.

Information retrieval.

Crime prevention--United States.

Crime prevention.

Digital mapping.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

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 1990's, and yet no study of these techniques and their relationship to everyday police work has been made available. Noted scholar Peter K. Manning

Contents:

Rationalities

The dance of change

The music and its features

Technology's ways : imaginative variations

Western City and police

Metropolitan Washington and police

Boston and police

Contributions of structure, content and focus to ordering

Seeing and saying in the Boston CAM

Generalization.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-318) and index.

ISBN:

9780814764442

0814764444

9780814795767

0814795765

OCLC:

779828233