4.1.1. Hard Technological Innovations
The hard technological innovation refers to hardware resources, while the soft one represents the information and computer software systems. The installment of hardware resources at the airports significantly helps in the prevention of crime (Andrews, Bonta & Wormith, 2011). However, criminals may use the same hardware resources to commit crimes and other associated offenses at an airport. The hardware resources include, firstly, CCTV cameras, electric fences, metal detectors, luggage screening equipment, and bullet proof teller windows and doors at the airports. These hardware installments prevent crime in their own way. Secondly, other hardware technological devices that are important in crime prevention include personal protective devices, such as maces, lifeline call mechanisms, and tasers. Thirdly, the airport security personnel need new weapons that are less lethal, but effective in crime prevention. Moreover, airports should purchase technologically advanced patrol vehicles and personal protective gear for their security officers (Sampson, Eck & Dunham, 2010).
The installation of hard technological innovations requires substantial funding from the airport’s project management department. Achieving the expected standards of crime prevention in an airport is not an easy thing to do. However, new advances in technology show that the combination of both the hardware and software technological innovations may form a predictable, flexible, permanent, and reliable system of crime prevention in airports. There is a lot of research evidence that supports the effectiveness and efficiency of hardware technological innovations, such as improved airport lighting and CCTV surveillance, in crime prev...
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Terrorist attacks are a threat to the development of any country and the welfare of her people. For instance, the September 11 attack in New York caused many deaths, infrastructural damages, and an economic standstill to the World Trading Centre. This paper discusses how technology influenced the attack, actions that were taken to enhance technology thereafter, and the new technologies that can be used to boost anti-terrorism campaigns. Technology played various roles during the September 11 attacks in New York. One of the major roles was communication through radio calls to call for emergencies, evacuations, and security back up. Ultra-high-frequency radios were used to capture signals from various areas including the pilots who were operating the rescuer police helicopters (911 Commission 281; Dwyer, Flynn, and Fessenden para. 3). It is through the communications that the fire fighters responded.
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Jock Young’s book “The Criminological Imagination” very clearly spells out the author’s feeling that orthodox criminology has lost its way and has been swallowed up into obscurification through bogus, post-modern positivism. Young postulates, the cost of this phenomena is the loss of critical thinking and objectivity in the field of criminology. Young contends criminology can be rescued from obscurity if returning to its orthodox beginnings by reducing the impact of neo-liberalism with critical imagination, and not simply succumbing to empirical data to try to explain everything. Young contends, doing so seems to simply cloud the view, thus giving rise to a host of incomplete and overly politicized theories.
The use of technology in the policing domain has been rapidly adopted over the past few years. However, it should be noted that the process of adopting and effectively using technology in law enforcement, begun more than 50 years ago. For instance, it become apparent in the 1950’s that computer would enable easier storage and retrieval of large amounts of data. More recently, advancement in technology has incorporated more sophisticated ways of transmitting and analyzing information, therefore aiding the law enforcement process (Button, Sharples & Harper, 2007). The police have found various aspect of technology useful; predominantly, computer crime mapping has been widely adopted and consequently received a lot of attention (Goldstein & McEwen, 2009).
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In today’s society there is a high fear of crime by society. Society actions show that there is anxiety and fear about crime. Therefore, anxiety and fear about crime has placid our cities and communities. Society express fear of being victimized by crimes, criminal activities, and behaviors. Therefore, according to, (Crime, 1999) states that “ the level of fear that a person holds depends on many factors, including but, not limited to: “ gender, age, any past experiences with crime that a person may have, where one lives, and one’s ethnicity.” All of those factors have a huge impact on one’s fear level.
The world has become increasingly run by technology. Technology has benefited society and prompted new methods of research and development. Even with its many benefits, the use of technology has led to the growth of cybercrime. Cybercrime is one of the fastest types of growing crime (Anderson, 2013). With the continued growth of the technology industry, the crime rate will continue to skyrocket (Ellyatt, 2013).
A lot of the high-tech devices are costly, but they seem to work in states that have a high crime rate. Technology has its positives and negatives but nothing is one hundred percent effective. Some technology is notice by people in the streets and tends to get destroyed before it can even be utilized. With that being said it does not work when crimes are committed in those areas. Finally, so of these technologies may be against a persons’ fourth amendment right.
Throughout the years, technology has been increasing in both good and bad ways. Technology is now being used to contact people through social media, link people together through group chats, and also spy on people. Although connecting with people instantly on social media is the upside to technology usage, people often tend to share private information that can be used in the wrong way which is the downside of technology. As both technology and crime increases, technology usage is now being increased to help solve crimes. Many years ago, without the usage of technology, many aspects of a crime was not questioned or the resources to uncover certain evidence were both time consuming and/or expensive. The Police Chief Magazine list many technological improvements that have been put in place to
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