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Bank Systems & Technology
August 30, 2004
Ivan Schneider |
Who Was That Masked Man? MSU professor talks about the problem of fighting ID theft and the Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act.   |
Bank Technology News
September 2010
Tom Leuchtner |
Patrolling the Neighborhood Cyber criminals are employing increasingly sophisticated methods to perpetrate financial crimes. |
AskMen.com
Bernie Alexander |
Cyber Crime: The Wild West, Online Forget about breaking and entering, aggravated assault and armed robbery. Cyber crime is taking over. |
InternetNews
July 7, 2009
Alex Goldman |
FBI, DOJ Agents: We're Gaining on Cyber Crime While the Internet helps criminals organize and to reach across borders, it can also help law enforcement catch them. |
Wired
October 2009
Vince Beiser |
Nils Christie: Empty the Prisons From the death penalty to "three strikes" laws, Americans love tough responses to crime, but not necessarily smart ones. Nils Christie has a better idea: Stop treating lawbreakers like criminals. |
PC World
October 2002
Anne Kandra |
Don't Let Them Steal Your Good Name Identity theft is skyrocketing -- and it's even being used to fund terrorism. The Web can be a real boon for identity thieves, helping them find information about victims and profit from the crime. |
InternetNews
March 31, 2010 |
FBI, DOJ Identity Theft Programs Fall Short A new report from the DOJ's Office of the Inspector General says the government is making a big mistake by not making ID theft prevention and prosecution a top priority. |
Reason
July 2008
Kerry Howley |
Striking Distance Few states have enforced the "three strikes" law with as much zeal as California. But thanks to perverse incentives built into the legislation, the law may encourage some of those offenders to commit more-violent crimes in the future. |
Salon.com
July 16, 2002
Arianna Huffington |
Send the bastards to jail! Unlike the majority of nonviolent drug cases, corporate wrongdoers rarely do any time behind bars. |
Inc.
August 2003
Robert X. Cringely |
They've Got Your Number Identity theft using a combination of computer technology and government information is a major crime just waiting to happen. |
Popular Mechanics
February 18, 2010
Tyghe Trimble |
Can Sophisticated Mathematical Models Help Police Fight Crime? Is it possible to predict crimes from studying human behavior? A new paper from researchers at the University of California shows how mathematical modeling may soon lead to truly predictive police work. |
InternetNews
February 10, 2006
Roy Mark |
DoJ Wants Cyber Crime Stats The Department of Justice is launching its first national survey to measure the prevalence and impact of cyber crime on U.S. businesses. |
Insurance & Technology
September 14, 2004
Ivan Schneider |
Penalties Upped for ID Theft Identity theft penalty enhancement act makes ID crimes more costly. |
InternetNews
March 23, 2010 |
FBI Underboss Outlines Anatomy of a Cyber Gang As cyber criminals grow ever more sophisticated and organized, law enforcement agencies have had to step up their game to keep pace. One of the top men at the FBI shares what the bureau is doing to combat cyber crime. |
InternetNews
April 23, 2007
Roy Mark |
A New Fight Against ID Theft Improved cyber security, increased law enforcement and public education top the recommendations of President Bush's Identity Theft Task Force plan issued today. |
AskMen.com
March 12, 2003
Steve Richer |
How To: Avoid Identity Theft Criminals steal identities to commit all kinds of fraud and hide the misdeeds they commit. In 2001, there were more than 86,000 victims of this crime in the United States; that figure almost doubled to 162,000 in 2002. Read on to learn how to avoid being the next victim. |
PC Magazine
September 7, 2004
John Blazevic |
True Crime: Streets of LA True Crime is reminiscent of the Grand Theft Auto series, with its highly detailed cityscape and focus on driving, but here players stop crimes instead of committing them. |
InternetNews
September 17, 2008
Richard Adhikari |
Bill Would Give ID Theft Victims More Weapons A bill containing provisions against cyber criminals that awaits the President's signature. Does it do enough? |
Information Today
December 15, 2015 |
Gale Debuts 19th-Century Crime and Punishment Collection Gale launched Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920, its new primary-source archive of more than 2 million pages of material on 19th-century history, literature, law, and criminal justice. |
Bank Technology News
April 2004
Michael Grebb |
Forgotten Fraud: Counterfeit Checks Banks lost $698 million from scams in 2001 |
U.S. Banker
May 2004 |
Counterfeit Checks are The Forgotten Fraud With all the attention on ID theft, old-fashioned check fraud is getting easier than ever. It may actually account for the majority of cases categorized as identity-related crime. |
PC World
October 14, 2002
Gideon F. For-Mukwai |
Nigerian E-Mail Scammers Reported On Run International authorities close in on 22 Nigerians accused of e-mail bank fraud. |
CRM
September 2012
Kelly Liyakasa |
Cracking the Code on Cyber Crimes Despite efforts to proactively protect customer data, computer intrusions and online fraud are on the rise. |
National Defense
October 2007
Breanne Wagner |
Computer Crimes Keep Government and Industry on the Defensive The complexity of new malicious code and the elusive nature of cyber attackers have become significant impediments to detecting or preventing most intrusions. |
Scientific American
February 2009
Michael Moyer |
Will the Recession Spark a Crime Wave? The bad economy doesn't necessarily mean we're headed for armageddon, argue some researchers. But maybe they've been looking at the wrong data |
ifeminists
December 30, 2003
Wendy McElroy |
Criminals Owe Debt to Victims, Not Society I believe both civil and criminal court systems should aim at compensating the victim. What would a criminal system organized around restitution look like? |
Information Today
April 16, 2007
Paula J. Hane |
New Database Pools Info to Fight Retail Crime Retailers and U.S. law-enforcement agencies have joined forces in an effort to combat the growing problem of organized retail theft. |
BusinessWeek
July 3, 2006
Dean Foust |
ID Theft: More Hype Than Harm Law enforcement officials say the criminals tend not to follow through after stealing personal data. |
The Motley Fool
January 27, 2004
Dayana Yochim |
How Will They Scam Thee? Danger is lurking everywhere, it seems. The Federal Trade Commission issues a top 10 list of fraud complaints. Americans are being slammed by scams everywhere they turn. But is this a bona-fide crime wave, or just a good headline? |
Bank Technology News
April 1, 2008
Joe Sowerby |
ID-Theft Fears Keep Clients Off the Web Adoption of online banking is increasing, but not nearly at the rate of broadband adoption. The main reason: fear of online identity fraud. |
CRM
September 1, 2006
Petouhoff & Johnson |
How Much Is Your Customers' Trust Worth? With the profitability of data theft, there does not seem to be an end to the crime unless customer data protection becomes job number one. And while no company expects to have a data breach, the cost of preventing one may well be worth the price. |
Investment Advisor
May 2006
Frank Troise |
The IA Soapbox: Protect Yourself Here's how this financial adviser became a victim of identity theft, what individuals can do to protect themselves, and what financial advisers can do to help. |
InternetNews
July 15, 2004
Roy Mark |
Identity Theft Law Hits Back at 'Phishers' The Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement Act, signed into law by President Bush, mandates federal prison terms for using a false identity in the commission of a felony. |
InternetNews
March 5, 2010 |
FBI Director Seeks Industry Help on Cybersecurity In an address at the annual RSA show, FBI Director Robert Mueller outlines challenges the agency has in fighting cyber crime, seeks broader partnerships with private-sector firms. |
Reason
March 2007
Radley Balko |
Prisoner's Dilemma After a nearly two-decade decline, violent crime in the U.S. has begun to inch upward again. So what's the solution? It probably isn't the "more laws, more prisons" approach that lawmakers typically adopt when crime goes up. |
Searcher
September 2003
Kenneth Fink |
Criminology Web Sites: An Annotated "Webliography" This list may serve as an introduction to the many Web sites devoted to both the prosaic and exotic in the field of criminology. |
InternetNews
September 22, 2009 |
Canada Uses IBM BI Software to Fight Crime Edmonton police are the latest to use business intelligence apps to identify crime hot spots. |
InternetNews
November 11, 2005
Roy Mark |
FBI Hunkered in The Bunker Cyber G-men are responsible for investigating cyber attacks by foreign adversaries and terrorists, and for preventing online criminals from using the Internet to steal, defraud and otherwise victimize U.S. citizens, businesses and communities. |
Reason
October 2007
Jacob Sullum |
Nosy Neighbors Thanks to a $3 million grant from the U.S. government, Mexican officials are expanding their ability to monitor email messages and telephone calls. Among other things, the new Communications Intercept System will allow the government to keep track of cell phone users as they move around. |
Reason
October 2001
Rhys Southan |
DNA on Demand Scotland's Strathclyde Police don't blink twice when it comes to slighting privacy for crime detection. In March, Scotland's largest police department announced that officers would take DNA samples from everyone they arrest, no matter how minor the crime... |
InternetNews
April 14, 2009
Alex Goldman |
Credit Cards, Banks Targeted by Cyber Criminals Sophisticated criminal gangs are organized and focused on stealing, buying and selling identities across shadowy online markets. |
BusinessWeek
April 8, 2010
Margaret Collins |
Stealing Your Identity for Liposuction Crooks are using pilfered data to charge health care - from cosmetic surgery to emergency room visits. |
Reason
November 2002
Joyce Lee Malcolm |
Gun Control's Twisted Outcome Restricting firearms has helped make England more crime-ridden than the U.S. |
| AskMen.com |
Crime Down In 2008: FBI Violent crime, property crime, murder and manslaughter all dropped in 2008. But there were some increases, too. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2001
James V. DeLong |
The Great Gun Fight More guns mean less crime. Or they don't. Which is it? Two respected authors, John R. Lott Jr. and Robert Ehrlich debate... |
Reason
February 2003 |
Letters Gun Control Twists... True Patriots... |
InternetNews
August 2, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
The FBI Fight Against Organized Cyber Crime The bureau is making it's fight against organized cyber crime personal. |
PC World
November 2004
Andrew Brandt |
Listening In to Net Phone Conversations The ability to make phone calls over the Internet creates new communication options for all of us--including, unfortunately, criminals. Federal law enforcement officials want to make sure that when bad guys use Net phones, the cops can listen in. |
IDB America
March 2002
Daniel Drosdoff |
Prompt justice Venezuela undertakes a sweeping reform of its courts... |
Psychology Today
Jan/Feb 2009
Chuck Hustmyre |
Marked for Mayhem Street criminals are selective about their victims. Unfortunately, many of us unwittingly give off signals that mark us as easy targets. |
