Information Technology and the Criminal Justice System

The Title "Information Technology and the Criminal Justice System " is written by April Pattavina. This book was published in the year 2004. The ISBN number 0761930191|9780761930198 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 304 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Sage Publications. We have about 17247 other great books from this publisher. Information Technology and the Criminal Justice System is currently Available with us.

• Rapidly emerging course market and of high interest to professionals.
• Contributors are nationally known.
• Covers the breadth of major I.T. applications, as well as having chapters on acquisition and implication issues.
• Case studies will be found in most chapters.

April Pattavina, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

April Pattavina, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. Her interests include the impact of information technology on the criminal justice system and applying spatial analysis techniques to the study of crime. In addition to this book, she has published several journal articles in the area of information technology and geographic information systems in particular. One of her most recent articles is Linking Offender Residence Probability Surfaces to a Specific Incident Location: An Application for Tracking Temporal Shifts in Journey to Crime Relationships and Prioritizing Suspect Lists and Mug Shot Order” in (with Richard Gore).forthcoming in Police Quarterly. She is also works extensively with criminal justice agencies. Currently she is principal investigator on a Department of Justice funded grant to integrate criminal justice information related to incidents of domestic violence in a local police department.