Seminar 2 (Revising Vocabuary and Conclusion of seminar)

Today we had a second seminar about "Crime and Surveillance"

Before getting to the details let start with some vocabulary that might be useful for these subject.

bring forward : bring it earlier
determine : decide
Pros and Cons : Advantages and disadvantages
discern : to see
hoax : a plan to device someone
warden : a person who is in charge of(the people in) a particular building
probation : a period of time when a criminal must behave well and not commit any more crime in order to avoid being sent to prison
surveillance : careful watching of a person or place, especially by the police or army, because of crime that happen or is expected
obligation : to force someone to do something, or to make it necessary for someone to do something
accumulate : to collect a large number of things over a long period of time
legislation : a law or set of laws suggested by a government and made official by a parlament
liberty : freedom, to live as you wish
infringe : to break a rule, law
infallible : never wrong, faling or making a mistake
swell : increase
quadruple : to become four time as big
peril : great danger
missue : to use something in an unsuitable way

For conclusion about the seminar today we had been talking about every factors of the technology using for crime and surveillance starting with

Electronic tagging : It is good for the probation period, but somehow there are also some disadvantage such as there is no justice for people who had been punished and still need to be in control. We suggested that the way to slove the problem is let the prisoner come to report in the time the officer have set up.

DNA : UK is the country with the most dna database in the world, 5.24% of UK population. From this amount there are some suggestions that there might be too much having the enocent people dna database that could be holding the data by the police. Moreover, UK still want everyone to give their own DNA to collect the data for the officer evidence.

CCTV : Also in UK has got the most no. of the CCTV which is about 2,000,000 cameras in the country. As much of the cameras there are still crime. Disadvantage of this technology is that there are still some disadvantage from the limitation of the person who watch it. However, the research said "UK people still want more of CCTV because it make them feel saver".

Biometric : Using this technology nowadays is a expensive investment and there are still some error which found to be weakness in using for protection such as fingerprints using for getting into the bank in Swisserland found to be 16% error of letting people into the bulding or using iris scan sometimes it takes more time to get all the people to the building. Somehow, inconclusion, biometric might be useful in the future with more development.

Conclusion : We argreed that these technology using for crime and surveillance should not be increase too much but should be more develop for the effective in using to controll the city.