Introduction
Illegal immigration is one of the most problematic issues with which modern-day communities’ leaderships have to deal. Therefore, this problem requires immediate intervention and – as much importantly – proper research and discussion. Numerous factors have to be addressed to achieve adequate coverage and understanding of the topic; for example, surveillance techniques, crime mapping, and staffing needs. This paper will cover the subject of surveillance techniques used to detect illegal immigration-related crimes and track individuals suspected of involvement in corresponding activities. First, this essay will address possible research options and approaches that may contribute to gathering related information and analyzing it. Second, two research designs that present the most opportunities for dealing with the specified topic will be compared to determine which will serve the purpose better. Third, some of the possible data sources addressing the topic will be provided and evaluated to achieve greater coverage. Finally, the paper will cover possible ethical, cultural, or other considerations involved in resolving the problem.
Research Approaches
Naturally, the best option for Chef would be to gather as much information as possible covering existing surveillance techniques. Additionally, the Chef might call for expert opinions regarding each technique separately or their work in conjunctions. However, there are some restrictions to this approach. For example, one of the biggest of them would be the necessity to analyze all the gathered information. This requirement may pose a great challenge to the successful conclusion of this research. However, the results would be significant as well. Decent research of the problem ensures at the very least that the most efficient and affordable technique or a combination of them is selected and implemented.
Another option would require gathering information as well. However, this resolution would call for the creation of an innovative technique that is based on one or more of the existing procedures. This approach would allow the Chef to take the peculiarities of the location he governs into consideration. Essentially, this would also enable the Chef to adopt each decisive factor presented by various techniques while negating possible shortcomings.
Either way, each of these approaches requires a significant amount of information to be processed and discussed. The outcome would greatly depend on the gathered information and the level at which it is analyzed. Needless to say, this would also require a lot of time spent on research-related procedures. All in all, if managed correctly, information gathering would allow the Chef to achieve great results and possibly reduce illegal immigration to a level of almost complete absence.
Research Designs Comparison
To gather related information, two research designs would present the most significant set of opportunities. These designs are the field and longitudinal researches. Since the precise nature of research requires a lot of techniques to be tested and evaluated, these models will probably provide the greatest results. It is important to notice, that, although just one research design may suffice, it would be most beneficial to combine these approaches while also incorporating some other research designs for better outcomes.
Field research design assumes that the techniques would be analyzed and then implemented directly to monitor their efficiency rates. This approach would allow the Chef to directly test the techniques or demonstrate their effectiveness depending on the state of research. However, this design would most likely require additional time to be spent on field tests and results evaluation. Nevertheless, this way, each technique would be evaluated in a natural environment and, therefore, be most unbiased. It would probably be the best option to test some innovative techniques designed based on the previously existing ones since the field tests have already been carried out for them.
Longitudinal research would allow tracking the progression of techniques’ creation and implementation. This way, the most stable method would most likely be selected. However, it would require gathering much more information, and that would call for the proper analysis. Also, it would automatically prevent the Chef from creating any possible innovative techniques since the focus will be on selecting the most efficient form of the existing ones. Nevertheless, surveillance techniques that already proved to function effectively are possible the best solution.
Data Sources Identification
Data sources that would be used to analyze surveillance techniques must contain the description, setup peculiarities, costs, and effectiveness evaluation. Therefore, only the most in-depth and reliable sources must be selected. Numerous researches and reports are covering the surveillance techniques both in forensic literature and other unaffiliated sources.
Some examples of such publications would be articles by Yu et al. (144-158), Urbanova et al. (77-86), Madrupkar et al. (352-356), and Hausken (3-16). These sources were selected to represent that the angles at which the forensic surveillance techniques are approached. Each of these publications goes into different details, while some of them also touch upon other various aspects of forensic science.
All in all, there would be no point in presenting a bigger number of sources since they are so great in numbers. However, these publications were also selected because they were published in a more recent period (not much than four years from now). Therefore, it is safe to assume that there would be no shortage of information for the Chef to research.
Advice on Considerations
Probably the most significant ethical problem that would stand before the Chef is the issue of privacy. It becomes even more critical if the private life of citizens residing in the region legally is taken into consideration. Indeed, it is important to detect and track illegal immigrants, but the problem is that they blend in with the community quite easily. However, this problem may be eliminated by establishing surveillance only in the locations of assumed border crossing. It would also be rendered pointless if the presumed criminals are known and must only be tracked or located. Since some illegal immigrants are already residing on the territory, there is no point in preventing surveillance of each possible area.
Therefore, implementing surveillance would require informing each member of the community that they are put under monitoring. This would address the issue in one way but still would create several challenges. There is simply no easy way to eliminate this ethical problem, which also requires additional research.
Conclusion
Thus, the Chef is presented with both a significant challenge and numerous opportunities to overcome it at the same time. If every aspect of the research is addressed and carried out in full, there would be no shortage of options to select to implement the best possible surveillance technique. Nevertheless, it is just a single aspect of the illegal immigration prevention policy that must be managed.
Works Cited
Hausken, Liv. “Forensic Fiction and the Normalization of Surveillance.” Nordicom Review, vol. 35, no. 1, 2014, pp. 3-16.
Madrupkar, Tasleem, et al. “Smart Video Security Surveillance with Mobile Remote Control.” International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering, vol. 3, no. 3, 2013, 352-356.
Urbanova, Petra et al. “Testing Photogrammetry-Based Techniques for Three- Dimensional Surface Documentation in Forensic Pathology.” Forensic Science International, vol. 250, no. 1, 2015, pp. 77-86.
Yu, Wei et al. “On Effectiveness of Hopping-Based Spread Spectrum Techniques for Network Forensic Traceback.” International Journal of Networked and Distributed Computing, vol. 1, no. 3, 2013, pp. 144-158.