The Technology of Policing - 9780814757246

The Technology of PolicingCrime Mapping, Information Technology, and the Rationality of Crime Control\nAuthor(s): Peter K. Manning\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9780814757246, 978-0814757246\nSynopsis\nWith 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.\n Noted scholar Peter K. Manning spent six years observing three American police departments and two British constabularies in order to deter.