New crimes are often created due to new technology. For example, high-quality photocopiers make the forging of documents such as bank notes, concert tickets, and other event tickets.
The article below shows a new crime that has only come about due to new technology - mainly SMS messaging:
Mobile phone spam is a form of spamming that is directed at text messaging or other mobile phone communications services. It is sometimes called mobile spamming, SMS spam, text spam, m-spam or mspam.
It has become more widespread because, since the early 2000s, the popularity of mobile phones has increased as users frequently used text messaging as a form of communication. This has seen an increase in the number of unwanted and unsolicited commercial advertisements being set to people's mobile phones through text messaging.
This can be very annoying for the recipitent because, unlike in their email accounts, some recipitents can be charged a fee for every message they receive, including spam.
Task 2 - Crime Detection)
Crime detection has improved hugely in the past few decades, especially due to DNA testing and other crime scene investigation tools, including closed circuit TV systems. Furthermore, numerous police officers have been trained in ICT at all levels in order to ensure that the police service can take advantage of the benefits that can be gained from its use. Nowadays, ICT is seen as a major driving force to improve methods and efficiency by the police service.
These days, ICT affects the work of every police officer. Street officers can type up reports efficiently using word processing software and templates, rather than having to laboriously type up every report. Clear, secure, digital radio systems are also used now - they allow communication between mobile officers and a computer-aided-despatch (CAD) room at base.
Nationally, huge integrated crime databases are used to record crimes and attempt to find patterns in them. Biometric databases are used to store DNA evicence, handprints and fingerprints. Geographical analysis and other sophisticated networks are used to attempt to analyse patterns in criminal behaviour.
Additionally, evidence gathering has improved through the use of digital video and CCTV, as well as more sophisticated computerised forensic analysis.
Additionally, evidence gathering has improved through the use of digital video and CCTV, as well as more sophisticated computerised forensic analysis.
The benefits of using ICT to improve methods and efficiency of the police service are very clear. Communication systems have greatly improved; it is possible for officers to work through their administrative duties much more quickly. The number and sophistication of the tools available to help track down criminals, and hopefully deter them, has increased hugely.
Evidence collecting, tracking, analysis and availability have improved, and the amount of data now available to the police system to help in their work and monitor how effective they are has grown in proportion to this.
However, many believe that the police service are now too driven by technology. People miss the days when there was "a local police officer who knew what was happening in the local community". There is now a huge collection of data, but it is not easy to access what impact of these major initiatives have had on detecting and reducing crime overall.
Another more unexpected tool used by the police service is social networking - this is useful as it allows the police service to find criminals - something shown in the article below - but communication technology can sometimes be a problem when cases come to court.
Task 3 - How technology has changed crimes)
Technology has changed how crimes are committed because, with each new branch of technology, another avenue for criminals is also created. For example, when online banking was created, a whole new type of crime was made - criminals could illegally hack into people's accounts online and steal their money that way - they did not even have to leave the house. Another example is cyber attack - this would also not have been possible without our current technology because, if computers did not exist, neither would cyber attack.
However, new technology has also opened new gateways in more positive ways. For example, the missingpersons.police.uk website would not have been possible without modern technology and that has helped the police to solve many investigations.
Both of these arguments are presented in articles below:
"PC hijackers" are also becoming a growing problem. Increasing numbers of people are learning how to create types of malware such as ransomware and scareware. These types of malicious software - ransomware - can effectively lock or encode people's documents and, without paying whatever money the criminals are demanding in return for the full use of your computer, you will not be able to use your machine - it is much simpler to have anti-virus software downloaded and to use common sense - e.g. if your computer shows a pop-up that says the police have found something suspicious on your computer and want compensation - scareware - then do not pay it! They would not inform you of it in that way and any money you send would be sent to criminals.
This is shown in the article below:
Another type of crime that would not be possible without modern technology is shown in the article below. It explains for, by using the internet - twitter for example - a group of criminals were able to trace the movements of the "super-rich" and apprehend them, demanding that they give them incredible expensive jewellery they were wearing, and they only knew this because the victims had posted where they were going online. To summarise, the "Millionaire Muggers", as the group were later nicknamed, "followed the movements of high-profile figures on the internet before robbing them".
Here is the article:
On a more positive note, over the last decade, the crime rate has dropped in the United Kingdom because it is getting increasingly difficult to commit a crime and get away with it.
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