New Technology and Practical Police Work
Subtitle: The Social Context of Technical Innovation
Publisher: Open Univ Pr
Published: May 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780335094585
Subjects: Applications of Computing; Police & security services; Data processing; Information storage and retrie; Information storage and retrieval systems; Law enforcement; Police administration; Sociology
First sentence: The relationship between technology and society has been an enduring concern of sociology since the first stirrings of what became known to later generations as the Industrial Revolution awakened a rather innocent awareness among some thinkers that here was a force that could transform human life for ever.