Internet Use to Solve Crimes

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This paper discusses the vast array of uses of the Internet today, including using it to find general information, to access information, to correspond with people in distant places, to learn, to buy or sell, to obtain software, to make money or to share knowledge. The paper then discusses the use of the Internet by law enforcement and how it can assist in solving crimes, as well as for corrections, parole, and probation.

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"Since its initial use as a research program for a specific networking area in the 70s, the internet has evolved into something else more and more versatile and miraculous a tool for virtually all the sectors. It has demonstrated and continues to demonstrate its peerless value in commercial activity as a marketing tool after 1991. It has also proven beneficial in practically all human activity, such as the need for information, long-distance correspondence, obtaining software, employment, travel and exchange of knowledge. It is behind the knowledge explosion in the world today and has facilitated human endeavor in many ways. One area where it has also proven its worth is in law enforcement where it has been enabled law enforcement agencies obtain information and conduct its duties in ways much easier and convenient than before. Since the 90s, internet applications have been quite useful in tasks such as crime mapping, corrections, parole and probation, and in dealing with major events, emergencies and the protection and prevention of crime in communities."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Dozono, Elisa. Crime Mapping Now Available on the Internet. Portland Police Bureau, 2001. http://www.ci.portland.org/MAYOR/press4/crimemap.htm
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• Geographic Information Systems. Crime Mapping: GIS Goes Mainstream. GIS Lounge, 2006.
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• Holt, Cynthia. Science and Technology Resources on the Internet. The German Library: the George Washington University, 2003

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