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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451390003321

Autore

Manning Peter K

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8147-6444-4

0-8147-9576-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 p.)

Collana

New perspectives in crime, deviance, and law series

Disciplina

363.250285

Soggetti

Crime analysis - United States - Data processing

Information retrieval - United States

Crime prevention - United States

Digital mapping

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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