The Technology of Policing: Crime Mapping, Information Technology, and the Rationality of Crime Control

Marenin, Otwin

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“…Presenting statistics in an intuitive and simple to digest matter can also aid others in the criminal justice organization who do not regularly use statistics to influence their behavior (Payne et al, 2013). One should not simply generate such numbers rote (Manning, 2008), but mold such reporting to be an effective tool to aid in making decisions in the organization.…”

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Tables and graphs for monitoring temporal crime trends

Wheeler

2016

International Journal of Police Science & Management

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This article is a practical review on how to construct tables and graphs to monitor temporal crime trends. Such advice is mostly applicable to crime analysts to improve the readability of their products, but is also useful to general consumers of crime statistics in trying to identify crime trends in reported data. First, the use of percent change to identify significant changes in crime trends is critiqued, and an alternative metric based on the Poisson distribution is provided. Second, visualization principles for constructing tables are provided, and a practical example of remaking a poor table using these guidelines is shown. Finally, the utility of using time series charts to easily identify short-and long-term increases, as well as outliers in seasonal data using examples with actual crime data is illustrated.

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Tables and graphs for monitoring temporal crime trends

Wheeler

2016

International Journal of Police Science & Management

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“…There is little research on the co-construction of mobile and ubiquitous information technology and working practices within organisations, and there is only sparse research moving beyond the mobile phone to both explore complex assemblages of mobile and ubiquitous technology as well as to investigate in detail the socio-technical arrangements. The work by Manning (2003Manning ( , 2008 on the use of complex technological assemblages within the police force provides an elegant exception.…”

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Academic agility in digital innovation research: The case of mobile ICT publications within information systems 2000–2014

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Landau

2015

The Journal of Strategic Information Systems

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“…In partnership with the police: purpose and research questions The police is expected to embody the idea of a central state authority offering justified services by following work procedures minimizing arbitrary reactions to societal demands (Manning, 2008). However, police research referring to community policing, neighborhood policing, "the police extended family," etc., describes how police organizations in many countries today are shaped by reforms that foster policing practices implemented through what Nikolas Rose (2000) calls a network of dispersed circuits.…”

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Partnerships with the police – logics and strategies of justification

Rolandsson

2015

Qualitative Research in Organizations and Management: An International Journal

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -Political reforms call for new types of public-private or community partnerships, in which public services are shaped in collaboration with networks of public, business or non-governmental organizations. The purpose of this paper is to investigate how municipal partners justify and thereby maintain partnerships with the police. Design/methodology/approach -The empirical material comprises documents and 26 semistructured interviews with civil servants, politicians, and police staff. This qualitative study investigates three Swedish municipalities engaged in partnerships with the same police authority. Findings -Based on Boltanski and Thévenot's order of worth, the paper describes how municipal partners manage two partly contradictory arrangements; one constituted by industrial and civic logics, and one constituted by domestic and industrial logics. Guided by these two different arrangements, they justify and thereby maintain their partnership with the police by alternating between a compromising strategy promoting adaptation to the police and a compensating strategy stating that they are independent partners with demands on the police. Research limitations/implications -This is a qualitative study that needs further confirmation before general conclusions can be drawn. Still, it suggests that partners justify themselves by making claims on being both collaborative and independent within these partnerships. Originality/value -Unlike research investigating how authorities initiate partnerships to organize integrated and cost-efficient public services, the paper highlights how partners justify their participation by alternating between two rather different but linked justifying strategies. The study applies a justificatory logic perspective that helps us understand that complex and sometimes contradictory arrangements of logics, which could threaten partner participation, also enable them to justify and thereby maintain their partnership with the police. Unlike institutional studies describing how tensions challenge organizational legitimacy this study describes how justificatory strains remain even when partners are able to justify their participation.

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The Technology of Policing: Crime Mapping, Information Technology, and the Rationality of Crime Control

Cited by 57 publications

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Tables and graphs for monitoring temporal crime trends

Tables and graphs for monitoring temporal crime trends

Academic agility in digital innovation research: The case of mobile ICT publications within information systems 2000–2014

Partnerships with the police – logics and strategies of justification

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