Use of the World Wide Web, hyperlinks and managing the news by criminal justice agencies

Policing - 2000
Stephen G.Dykehouse1, Robert T.Sigler2
1Michigan Department of Corrections, Saranac, Michigan, USA and
2University of Alabama, Department of Criminal Justice, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA

Tóm tắt

This paper presents the results of two research projects designed to evaluate the extent and nature of the use of the World Wide Web by criminal justice agencies. Discussion focuses on the extent and nature of Web use by type of agency, who links to whom, and the use of the Web to disseminate information from a news‐making criminology perspective.

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