CRM 3323 Study Guide - Traffic Camera, Software, Risk Assessment
Document Summary
Technology has moved to how we now punish people for their crimes. Throughout time executions have been guided by technology to decrease the harms done to those accused. Technology has also led to an easier world for us to navigate through. Phrenology: determining criminality through genes based on the structure of ones skull. Both pros and cons of technology affect us as its users. Where technology aids us, it also harms and controls us. Hard technologies vs. soft technologies (byrne and rebovich) Policing: metal detectors, license plate scanners, traffic cameras. Have different impacts depending on how it is presented. Ex, seeing something on television verses reading something. Virtuality (hayles, 1999) moving away from the physical body and having the information present in the virtual realm. 50,000 volts muscle contractions impair movement and freedom. Use of force permitted for purpose of officer and public safety. The benefit of a taser is that it is an intermediary weapon.
