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Informationen zum Autor Peter K. Manning Klappentext 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. 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. 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. While modern technology allows the police to combat crime in sophisticated, detail-oriented ways, Manning discovers that police strategies and tactics have not been altogether transformed as perhaps would be expected. 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. Zusammenfassung Offers a new understanding of the changing world of police departments and information technology's significant and undeniable influence on crime management Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents; Preface x; Part I. Theorizing 1; 1. Rationalities 2; 2. The Dance of Change 28; 3. The Music and Its Features 57; 4. Technology's Ways: Imaginative Variations 85; Part II. Case Studies 117; Overview of Case Studies 118; 5. Western City and Police 126; 6. Metropolitan Washington and Police 171; 7. Boston and Police 213; Part III. Appraising 254; 8. Contributions of Structure! Content and Focus to Ordering 255; 9. Seeing and Saying in the Boston CAM 274; 10. Generalization 320; Part IV. Appendixes 341; Appendix A: Data and Methods 342; Appendix B: Professional "Faery" Tales and Serious Organizational Ethnography Compared 362; Epilogue 372; Notes 377; References 396; Index; About the Author ...
