TY - JOUR
AU1 - Haggerty, Kevin D.
AB - Theoretical Criminology © 2004 SAGE Publications London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi. www.sagepublications.com Vol. 8(4): 491–497; 1362–4806 DOI: 10.1177/1362480604046661 Reply to Michael Jacobson KEVIN D. HAGGERTY University of Alberta, Canada I was pleased that Professor Jacobson (2004), in his response to my ‘Displaced Expertise’ article, generally agreed with my analysis of how criminological knowledge has been dislocated from the development of crime policy in the United States (Haggerty, 2004). Given his previous position as Probation Commissioner of New York City, I take this as insider confirmation for some of the points I tried to articulate in that piece. Professor Jacobson did, however, disagree quite strongly with a position he believes I expressed in that article, and this requires a brief response. In particular, I was surprised by Professor Jacobson’s characterization of my views on the embrace of new technologies in the criminal justice system. He suggests that I am engaged in a ‘critique of technology’ (2004: 235) where I express ‘dismay at the use of tools and techniques adapted from the physical sciences in the day-to-day operation of criminal justice’ and ‘condemn the wholesale use’ of particular investigative technologies (2004: 234). Unfortunately, this misrepresents my argument, suggesting that I 
TI - Technology and crime policy
JF - Theoretical Criminology: An International Journal
DO - 10.1177/1362480604046661
DA - 2004-11-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/technology-and-crime-policy-JF8c8vczB8
SP - 491
EP - 497
VL - 8
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -