The Failure to Innovate: A Study of Non Adoption of Computerized Crime Mapping in American Police

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dc.contributor.advisorWeisburd, Daviden_US
dc.contributor.authorMazeika, David Michaelen_US
dc.contributor.departmentCriminology and Criminal Justiceen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2008-06-20T05:39:13Z
dc.date.available2008-06-20T05:39:13Z
dc.date.issued2008-05-19en_US
dc.description.abstractScholars have noted a recent accumulation of innovations in policing (Bayley, 1994; Weisburd & Braga, 2006; Weisburd & Eck, 2004). Due to the increase and scope of these innovations, some scholars have called this the most dramatic period of innovation in policing (Bayley, 1994). Studies have tried to explain why this dramatic period of innovation occurred, but while in general the study of the diffusion of innovations is widespread (Rogers, 2003), there have been relatively few in policing (Klinger, 2003; Weisburd & Braga, 2008). Particularly, little is known about the relationship between resources and innovation. The current work attempts to better explain this relationship by increasing the scope of resources measured and by disentangling the effects of measures employed in the extant literature. In contrast to previous studies (Chamard, 2004; King, 1998; Mastrofski et al., 2003; Mastrofski et al., 2007; Skogan & Hartnett, 2005; Weisburd et al., 2003), findings from the current work indicate that various measures of resources are not related to innovation and those who fail to innovate.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/8241
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledSociology, Criminology and Penologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledPoliceen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledInnovationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledDiffusionen_US
dc.titleThe Failure to Innovate: A Study of Non Adoption of Computerized Crime Mapping in American Policeen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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