Introduction to the Issues
This study summarizes and evaluates the chapter regarding future changes and the course of criminal activities. Furthermore, particular emphasis has been placed on the manner in which the nature and form of criminal activities will change, mainly through the influence of technology and globalization. The study also assesses the significance of the chapter, critically evaluates the content, and makes a proposition of a present theory being expanded to tackle and give details of the rising and future inclinations as talked about in the chapter.
Summary
It is simple to evaluate the present legal position of individuals but foretelling the criminal activities that the future could bring may be more intricate. The future holds a nearly limitless number of probabilities, and any of them may unfurl but just a few do. Global organizations such as the World Future Society generate notions, individuals and awareness in readiness for the potential occurrences. Technological developments are resulting in the emergence of an impersonal community where individuals meet and interrelate virtually instead of physically. In this regard, the physical setting might turn out to be a progressively hostile and unsafe place, or what could be termed as a deprived setting where individuals might get less real to each other hence causing more extreme responses, interrelations, and the unwillingness to get involved in arguments.
Globalization is resulting in the challenges for stakeholders to disregard the incidences of crime across the globe, especially the criminal activities carried out by international criminal and terrorist groups. For instance, trafficking of people entails enslaving them, subjecting them to restricted segregation and movement, and confiscating their documents. On the other hand, smuggling people does not bar them from such things as leaving or changing their jobs. Viruses in computerized devices have demonstrated indications of becoming terrorist-like implements that attack or damage many gadgets. Technology has been seen to cut on both sides as it does not only equip criminals with possible weapons of committing crime but also offers the law enforcement agents with powerful techniques that are valuable in the fight against felony.
Importance
The inclusion of the chapter is important as it elucidates on the direction of future crime attributable to such things as globalization and advancements in technology. At first, the chapter shows how technological advancements will keep on offering felons with the instruments that enhance the carrying out of criminal activities such as trafficking, smuggling, cyberbullying, identity theft, and spreading of viruses to mention a few. Most importantly, the chapter offers law enforcement agencies the confidence that new technology will be useful in preventing and deterring crime. The chapter envisages that amid the most significant transformations in the enforcement of law around the world will be the creation of interconnections amid different jurisdictions in reaction to transnational crime.
Critical Analysis
I support the ideas discussed in the chapter in that numerous aspects influence the form of offences, though there is currently no convincing elucidation as to the reason behind the decrease in the level of crime in the course of the last couple of years or its dramatic increase from the year 2000. Nevertheless, the chapter differs from other studies that affirm that the two most considerable variables that have swayed the level of crime are economic aspects (for instance, joblessness and the rate of consumer spending) and demographic facets (particularly the increase in the level of males in crime-inclined age bracket). Such studies affirm that the two aspects are anticipated to be greatly dominant in the occurrence of future crimes. On the contrary, the chapter mainly focuses on globalization and advancements in technology as the factors that lead to increased crime. Nonetheless, the chapter is significant in that the major aspect that could have resulted in the facilitation of the level of crime is technological advancement. It is evident that this factor will keep on influencing the impact of crime highly.
Theory
Crime pattern theory is an existing theory that is being expanded to deal with and elucidate the emerging and future inclinations as argued in the chapter. A key point of the theory is that the future acts as a conceptual perception through which people bring figurative order to the current and significance to past attempts. From the present perspective, numerous futures arise, every one of which has a possibility and might or may not occur. Another key point of the theory is that through the practices of identification, prediction, assessment, and accomplishment, cognitive plans are generated, targets selected, and criminal activities committed. With advancements in technology, new kinds of conducts are enhanced, which makes it evident that, in the future, forms of crime will vary considerably from the current ones.
Expansion of the theory discusses the impact of communities evidently and concentrates on the way in which offenders might get the chance of carrying out criminal activities. Though technology will create challenges in the successful handling of criminal activities by governments and law enforcement agencies because of the internationalization of crime, it will also strengthen the fight against felony by offering the necessary skills and tools. Based on the expansion of this theory, the law enforcement agencies will develop effective reactions to thwart the occurrence of future criminal activities.