Assessing CCTV as an effective safety and mangement tool for crime-solving, prevention and reduction

It addresses the history of CCTV and the main debates surrounding effectiveness and utility, it further evaluates the concept of the rise of surveillance societies and the protection of individual rights, and promotes further discussion and analysis through policy recommendations. [...] A major setback of CCTV technology is the lack of a standard and clear outline on the uses of CCTV and the targeted population. [...] The final section will explore the ethical challenges involved in CCTV use and implementation and therefore analyze its role as a deterrent, the issues surrounding the protection of rights and freedoms of individuals (laws and regulations) and the distancing of social control and discrimination. [...] Such studies suggest that CCTV systems have preventative and reactive measures, revive business in desolate or poor areas, increase the efficiency of the police force, build social cohesion, protect the private environment of citizens and assure confidence and ensure feelings of safety and security, thus leading to a more ordered and stable society. [...] Leman-Langlois (2003) states that it is not about the quantity of detection, which many assert to be the ‘crux’ of CCTV technology, but the quality of detection and the action taken afterwards.