NCJ Number
167617
Editor(s)
R Scherpenzeel
Date Published
1996
Length
444 pages
Annotation
These 36 papers, presentations, and reports were presented at an international symposium on issues and developments related to computerization in criminal justice, computer-related crime, efforts to prevent and control this form of crime, and the uses and exchange of criminal justice information.
Abstract
Individual papers focus on change in computerization, the policy use of criminal justice information, the coordination of computerization in the criminal justice systems of specific countries in Europe, and the need for international cooperation in addressing computer crime. Additional papers focused on data protection related to the automated processing of personal data; criminal justice research and public policy in the United States, Canada, and England and Wales; the use of statistical information on crime in crime control; and the online services of the National Criminal Justice Reference Service. Further papers present results of the Fourth United Nations Survey of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems and the results of the International Crime Survey. Other papers focus on the use of virtual files, the use of mobile data terminals and information technology in policing, new image processing technologies, and the computerization of the public prosecutor's office in the Netherlands. Additional papers discuss court information systems in Ecuador, France, and Russia; information technology in the correctional systems of the Netherlands, Sweden, and Israel; information retrieval systems, bibliographic databases in criminology; and applications of information technology in the justice agencies of England and Wales. Figures, tables, and footnotes