Criminal Justice: Criminal Justice - Books

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Summary: Street smarts, instinct and a quick draw are very nice, but DNA tests, computerized analysis and forensic databases are even nicer in law enforcement. It was not until the 1980s that cops allowed new technologies, such as the automated fingerprint identifying system used in the 1980s Night Stalker case, to prove their worth but everyone involved has been making up for lost time since. Snow, Commander of the homicide branch in the Indianapolis Police Department, takes an accessible tour through the new tools of law enforcement, starting with new officer training methodologies and improvements to vehicles used in police work, from SWAT trucks to lab vans. He describes improved communication and dispatch, increased expectations for technical expertise from personnel, better lie detection and evidence processing, DNA analysis and computerized forensics, not only to analyze physical evidence but to evaluate financial records, create perpetrator profiles, and create prevention and intervention strategies. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Summary: Maguire (administration of justice, George Mason U.) makes an important contribution to the existing limited body of theoretically oriented studies of police agencies as organizations. He reviews the theory of organizational structure , the four broad components of the context of OS<-->size, age, technology, environment<-->and the literature on police OS. He develops a new contextual theory of police OS, and applies the theory database for some 400 of the largest municipal police agencies in the U.S. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Summary: This is a copy of a special journal edition of Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management (2007).

Criminology has experienced tremendous growth over the last few decades, evident, in part, by the widespread popularity and increased enrollment in criminology and criminal justice departments at the undergraduate and graduate levels across the U.S. and internationally. Evolutionary paradigmatic shift has accompanied this surge in definitional, disciplinary and pragmatic terms. Though long identified as a leading sociological specialty area, criminology has emerged as a stand-alone discipline in its own right, one that continues to grow and is clearly here to stay. Criminology, today, remains.