The technology of policing
Subtitle: crime mapping, information technology, and the rationality of crime control
By: Peter K. Manning.
Series: New perspectives in crime, deviance, and law series
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9780814757246
Subjects: Crime analysis -- United States -- Data processing; Information retrieval -- United States; Crime prevention -- United States; Digital mapping
Description: "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. 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 spent six years observing three American police departments and two British constabularies in order to determine what effects these kinds of analytic tools have had on modern police management and practices. In The Technology of Policing, Manning untangles the varying kinds of complex crime-control rhetoric that underlie much of today's police department discussion and management, and provides valuable insight into which are the most effective - and which may be harmful - in successfully tracking criminal behavior.".

"The Technology of Policing offers a new understanding of the changing world of police departments and information technology's significant and undeniable influence on crime management."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-318) and index.
Table of contents: title: Rationalities; title: The dance of change; title: The music and its features; title: Technology's ways : imaginative variations; title: Western City and police; title: Metropolitan Washington and police; title: Boston and police; title: Contributions of structure, content and focus to ordering; title: Seeing and saying in the Boston CAM; title: Generalization.