Crime Prevention and Cyber Crime

Cyber crime prevention

With the growth in the information age and the ways in which it operates, it is no surprise that the systems are being checked or used to help detect or prevent crime. Many crimes are committed through the internet which is used vastly throughout the world; many of these crimes are making some money. The internet is increasingly getting larger and many more people are now beginning to trust the internet with their details and other important things which online criminals would be able to do damage with. The information ages also allows crime prevention not just online with the police forces using software such as finger printing, face recognition, CCTV, Number plate recognition and many other things which have only recently become available in preventing crime.

Cyber Crime

The internet is growing rapidly and with this constant growth comes a large increase in online crimes. The internet is a place which is predominantly reasonably safe, although in some cases it is not as safe as it is made out to be. The most common crimes done online are fraud where people steal people’s money, identity and other personal things they have. Although a extremely common crime which is constantly happening is illegal downloading, where people download a range of multimedia without paying for it.

Online theft is by far the biggest crime that currently goes on through the internet. Many criminals now find it easier to obtain the data about someone they need to either copy their identity or steal money from their account. Many of these are done frequently and it is becoming a problem. Major online money services such as PayPal are usual targets to hack due to the high amount of money which is put through the system everyday.

Phishing is a problem online too because many criminals will ensure that what they do looks highly professional and you’re extremely likely to fall for it. They will usually send out emails which give you a link to a website similar to your banks, you will click on it and fill in your details believing that it your website, the fraudster will then have access to copious amounts of information about your account and yourself leaving you vulnerable to fraud.

Another form of cyber crime is people hacking others computers and putting viruses into their computer. Many people create viruses either for fun, so they can make money in making a software to fix it or so they can get revenge on someone. Viruses can slow down the computer and in some cases break it completely. They are usually sent through emails as a link and once clicked on begin to ruin your computer, in some cases they’re found online through websites. Viruses are all over the internet and they can be extremely harmful to computers, people make them purely to mess up a computer and this is what they do.

I personally am lucky in the respect I have never experienced and of these problems, but many people do and they can cause a lot of stress and hassle for the person who has to deal with them.

Crime Prevention

With the information age making many things throughout the world done by technology it is no surprised that the police have begun using all types of technology to solve crimes. They have begun using finger printing, CCTV, Face recognition, number plate recognition and many more to help prevent or detect crime.

Finger Printing is one major way that people have begun to detect crime and prevent it. The police now take people’s finger prints if they’re being held for a crime, so given with forensics they get a fingerprint all they have to do is match it with someone’s on the database. This is a great way of finding someone and getting their information. Finger printing is a use of technology which helps make things safer and helps catch criminals faster, it allows us to get to them quickly. They are able to easily scan and upload criminals to the database so that if they commit another crime it is easily able to detect them.

CCTV is another way in which technology has developed. They now use CCTV in most places; shops, car parks, streets, the list goes on. CCTV allows you to catch things on camera, mainly crime such as shoplifting can be caught on camera and easily detected. It helps prevent crime and solve crime, people are less likely to commit crime if they know that the chance of them being caught is higher than before, and if they do then the camera shows their face and they can see the person if they have done it, or not. Face recognition can also come into this because through the databases used if they are caught on CCTV then they can use the picture of their face to detect who it is, both of these are extremely useful in policing and allow them to detect crime easier than before.

Number plate recognition helps a lot with an extremely common problem of people speeding throughout the country. The camera’s which are set up throughout the country allow the car which is speeding to be detected and then through the use of the database you’re able to find out their details to issue them which ever punishment they deserve. It is extremely useful in cracking down on the growing problem of people breaking the speeding limits throughout the country.