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BL
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1033483
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b787853
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Manning, Peter K.
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| Title & Author
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The Technology of Policing : : Crime Mapping, Information Technology, and the Rationality of Crime Control.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: NYU Press,, 2008.
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| Series Statement
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New Perspectives on Crime, Deviance, and Law Series
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1 online resource (340 pages)
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| ISBN
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0814764444
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: 9780814764442
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9780814757246 (alk. paper : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-318) and index.
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| Contents
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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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| Abstract
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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 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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Crime analysis-- United States-- Data processing.
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Crime prevention-- United States.
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Digital mapping.
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Information retrieval-- United States.
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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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| Dewey Classification
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363.250285
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HV7936.C88 M356 2008
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