The New Technology of Crime: Advances in both hard and soft technology have not been restricted to the criminal justice system’s response to crime; these advances have resulted in new opportunities for crime, new forms of criminality, new techniques for committing crime, and the creation of new categories of both offenders and victims.

Key Points:

New Technology of Crime : Crime at work, crime as work, and crime after work

New Technology of Crime: Identity Theft, Internet Crime schemes, and Internet Sex crimes

Crime Prevention and Hard Technology: There are a number of recent hard technology advances that have general applications to crime prevention strategies, both at the individual and community level.

Crime Prevention and Hard Technology

Examples Include

1. Taser guns as a citizen protection device
2. Closed circuit video monitoring of hot spot areas
3. Street lighting as a crime prevention strategy; other environmental    design options
4. The application of other forms of hard technology to crime prevention (e.g. ignition interlock systems, alcohol censoring devices, mace, metal detectors, security systems, etc.)

Crime Prevention and Soft Technology: Various forms of soft, information-based technology have been applied to the prevention of a diverse number of crimes, including terrorism, school violence, workplace violence and sex crimes. Examples include:

1. Threat assessment instruments (e.g. prevent school violence, terrorism, etc.)
2. Bullying identification protocol
3. Sex offender registration; sex offender risk assessment devices
4. The use of “profiling” to prevent crime
5. The use of mental health data by school officials; and linking mental health, criminal record, and gun purchase data bases; lessons learned from Virginia Tech tragedy
6. The application of other forms of soft technology to crime prevention (e.g. information sharing, improved nationwide data collection protocol for criminal histories, etc.)

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The Police and Hard Technology: Federal, state, and local police have applied hard technology not only in the area of individual offender apprehension, but also in the area of community-level surveillance and control. In addition, technological innovations have been used to improve the safety and protection of police officer.

Day 1: Police and Hard Technology

Day 2: Police and Hard Technology

 Examples include:

1. Improvement in weaponry of police
2. Less-than-lethal force technology used in mob/potential riot situations
3. Computers in squad cars to improve criminal identification and /or for gang identification; computer-based strategies to identify criminal behavior on the internet (e.g. sex offenders, cyber crime, terrorism)
4. Improvements in offender/citizen identification (e.g. biometrics, fingerprints, etc.)
5. Improvements in police protection devices (e.g. bullet proof vests, new construction of police departments)
6. Other applications of hard technology to policing

The Police and Soft Technology: The recent emphasis on intelligence-based policing has resulted in a wide range of soft technology advancements that have transformed police problem-solving strategies at the federal, state, and local level.  Examples include:

Day 1: Police and Soft Technology

Day 2: Police and Soft Technology

1. Crime mapping technology (hot spots)
2. Crime analysis technology (COMPSTAT)
3. Improvements in criminal history data systems
4. Other “soft” technology applications in policing (e.g. information sharing within the CJS; public-private information sharing.

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Drug Court video:

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Courts and Tech. PPT

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Technology of the Courts: An Overview of Hard and Soft Technology Innovations PPT

Center for Information Technology Policy  Website

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High-Tech Courtroom PPT.

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Institutional Corrections and Hard Technology: The prison industry has advocated the utilization of a wide range of control technologies to manage an increasingly large federal, state, and local inmate population with a minimum number of line corrections officers.  Examples include:

Institutional Corrections and Soft Technology: There are a variety of current and potential soft technology applications to problem solving in institutional settings, both in terms of inmate (classification, treatment and control) and staff (management and protection) issues. 

Institutional Corrections and Technology

Soft Technology Examples Include:

1. Contraband detection devices used in prison/jail
2. Duress alarm systems for corrections officers in indoor and outdoor settings
3. Language translation devices for use within prisons
4. Remote monitoring of inmate movements in cells and throughout prison
5. Perimeter security technology; new cell extraction technology
6. Less than lethal force in prison
7. Other hard technology applications in prisons and jails (e.g. the Supermax prison)

Hard Technology Examples Include:

1. Improved inmate classifications systems
2. Improved monitoring technology for inmate phone calls and financial transactions
3. Improved within-prison crime analysis and response capabilities (examination of incident/sanctioning patterns, including transfer, segregation, loss of privileges, etc. identification of high rate offenders and/or prison hot-spot locations)
4. Improved information sharing with community corrections, police, treatment providers (continuity/seamless system), and public health system
5. Improved monitoring of inmate health problems (e.g. mental and physical)
6. Other soft technology applications in prison and jails (e.g. testing new technologies in a simulated “mock” riot; using software to model death row outcomes

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Technology and Prison pdf.

Community Corrections and Hard Technology: A number of recent hard technology advances have been applied directly to the problems associated with the community control of various federal, state, and local probation and parole populations.

Community Corrections and Soft Technology: One consequence of specialized caseloads in community corrections is the recognition that “one size fits all” classification and supervision schemes need to be replaced by state of the art offender/problem specific classification, and case management systems. In addition, the recent emphasis on seamless systems of care/control, as well as new partnership-driven reentry strategies have resulted in the development of a number of innovative data collection/information sharing systems

Hard Technology Examples Include:

1. Electronic supervision tools (e.g. GPS)
2. The use of breathalyzers and “instant” drug testing devices to monitor compliance with conditions of release/supervision
3. The use of polygraph tests for selected offender groups (e.g. con artists, sex offenders)
4. Language translators for improved communication between offenders and community corrections officers
5. Kiosks to monitor offender location, using biometric devices
6. Other hard technology applications (e.g. laptop computers for line staff, weapons in CBC, GPS monitoring of staff locations)

 Soft Technology Examples include:

1. Drug offender Classification, sex offender classification, mentally ill offender classification, and multiple-problem offender classification for (1) risk, (2) treatment, and (3) control.
2. New improved workload distribution and assessment instruments
3. Improved analytic capabilities within probation and parole agencies, improvement in information sharing with other C.J. agencies, mental health, public health, and community groups
4. Other soft technology applications in community corrections settings (e.g. MIS systems linking measurement of staff activities to offender outcomes (e.g. technicals, rearrests, return to prison, length of time in treatment, etc.)

Offender Reentry:  A Police Perspective Video

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