INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Information Systems

Information Systems

Technical advances continue to facilitate information systems development and integration in American criminal justice system (Brown, 2000). Law enforcement has always been a dataintensive industry. Investigating criminal activity, implementing problem-oriented policing, processing court cases, and managing correctional facilities are all heavily dependent on information for their successful operation.

Until recently, however, implementing integrated information systems to better manage available data has typically been beyond the technical and fiscal reach of most organizations within the criminal justice system (Rogers & Craig, 1996). Not surprisingly, the technical and fiscal constraints experienced by the criminal justice system are similar for many ...