Information Technologies and the Police

Bibliographic Data

ID11348998
AuthorsPeter K Manning (0000-0002-7940-2023, corresponding author)
Year1992
Volume15
Pages349-398
Publication date1992-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCrime and Justice (BOOK_SERIES)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0192-3234 • E-ISSN: 2153-0416
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/449197
OpenAlexW2091507011
LanguageEN
Citations received50
References cited26

The police have long hoped that technology would ease their most vexing problems. The most important recent innovations in technology involve computers and related software. The police are information dependent and rely on the public as a primary source of information; how the police obtain, process, encode, decode, and use information is critical to understanding their functions. There are at least three types of police information (primary, secondary, and tertiary), intelligence (prospective, retrospective, and applied), and operational strategies (preventive, prospective, and reactive), each of which interacts in a complex fashion with technology. These processes are importantly patterned by police work, especially the role of the patrol officer, and the occupational cultures of policing. Technology is embedded in social organization; it shapes organizations and is shaped by them

Business · Computer security · Data science · Information technology · Knowledge management · Officer · Political science · Process (computing · Public relations · Work (physics · Computer Science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Cybercrime and Law Enforcement Studies · Engineering · Law · Stalking, Cyberstalking, and Harassment