Court Issues Analysis
University of Phoenix
David Hunt
CJA/394
March 7, 2013
Timothy English

Court Issues Analysis
According to Muraskin and Roberts (2009), one strong current that emerged during the latter part of the twentieth century was the quest for personal safety, stability, and risk reduction in an otherwise unpredictably dangerous world. Crime prevention programs on a societal level tackle the social roots or social conditions that breed lawlessness. Victimization prevention strategies have much more modest goals: to reduce the odds of violence and theft faced by specific individuals, small groups, and communities. Commercial interests have discovered that crime victims constitute a significant group of consumers of goods and services that allegedly will help reduce the risks of being harmed physically, emotionally, or financially, and speed recovery. The market will surely expand for high-tech victimization prevention gadgetry and private security, protection management, and loss prevention services. Already, the ranks of police departments, sheriff’s departments, and other local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies are reinforced by a growing number of security consultants, private detectives, and personal bodyguards along with night watchmen, store detectives, hotel detectives, chauffeurs, even doormen. Antitheft devices already abound and will become even more commonplace. Alarm systems are being sold as standard equipment on vehicles, boats, and new homes. Satellite tracking and recovery systems and license plate recognition devices that now help to retrieve stolen vehicles will be used to locate embedded computer chips and to repossess all sorts of valuable goods and even locate missing persons. Electronic monitoring systems, surveillance cameras, preprogrammed cell phones, and emergency transmitters will protect particularly