Overview
Description
This course surveys technology and communication systems used across justice organizations, including how those systems have changed over time.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Other
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- describe the basics of management information systems and information technology (MIS/IT), including computer hardware, software, communications, and computer systems analysis and design.
- explain the MIS/IT resources available for support of justice managerial decision-making and communication.
- describe the social and business-related ramifications of the electronic superhighway.
- describe and analyze contemporary and developing trends in MIS/IT with emphasis on the evolution of information systems from their earlier role in accounting to their emerging role in strategic planning.
- apply contemporary information processing approaches to justice organizational problems, related to efficiency of operation and the maintenance of sound decision-making and policy formulation.
- assess the impacts of dynamic changes in the information environment and develop solution approaches to the problems created by these changes.
- determine how justice managers can adapt to the changing environment through the use of strategic information systems of various types.
- explain the legal and ethical issues associated with MIS/IT in justice management.