A RESEARCH MONOGRAPH ON CYBER CRIME AND THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF SOCIAL SITES TO CYBERCRIMES Abstract Facebook has become a force to reckon with in the field of social networking. It has been ranked as the number one social networking site with a membership of over five hundred million. It has earned trust from many people who have in turn exposed their information without thinking twice into which hands it might fall. Despite the positive contribution and impact that Facebook has provided‚ it
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Computer Crimes Computer crimes are on the rise 1 in 10 Americans experience some form of a malicious attack on their computer system. If you pay attention to the rest of this speech you will understand how a Hackers mind works and how to defend yourself from them. In this speech I will tell you why and how people break into computers‚ what sorts of trouble they cause‚ and what kind of punishment lie ahead for them if caught. Hackers and Crackers break into computer systems for any of
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Computer crimes are criminal activities‚ which involve the use of information technology to gain an illegal or an unauthorized access to a computer system with intent of damaging‚ deleting or altering computer data. Computer crimes also include the activities such as electronic frauds‚ misuse of devices‚ identity theft and data as well as system interference. Computer crimes may not necessarily involve damage to physical property. They rather include the manipulation of confidential data and critical
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In Trinidad and Tobago we are presently faced with an alarming number of acts of violence and crime. Whatever the precise cause of the problem‚ the harsh consequences are that as a nation we are losing our young people‚ particularly to a life of crime and violence because most of our crime are being carried out by young peoples particularly males. In the fight against the increase in acts of crime and violence in Trinidad and Tobago we as a nation must take the initiative to address the issues of
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Crime trend Part 2 According to my crime trend: Career Criminals My crime trend does not seem to exist in Virginia. According to US legal “Parole has been abolished” (Us Legal‚ 2010). With parole being abolished this does not give felons a chance to become career criminals. By abolishing parole Virginia has cut down crime in their state significantly. According to the Lexington prosecutor the number of repeat offenders has risen from 1996 to 1999 about two percent each year. They are recommending
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1: What is a cybercrime in your own words? Cybercrime‚ also called computer crime because the use of a computer is used as tool to help people meet their illegal ends. Some cybercrime examples are committing fraud‚ trafficking in child pornography and intellectual property‚ stealing other peoples identity‚ or violating privacy of others. 2: What is the extent of cybercrime in the United States? Cyber crimes here in the United States are becoming very dangerous and serious‚ this could include
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Pauline Roberson Social Problems 24/Aug/2014 Loyd Ganey Crime in America Crime in America has decrease opposed to the crime rate in the 1990’s. However it still purposes a serious problem here in the United States. Rapes were down 2.5 percent‚ robbery was down 4 percent‚ and murder was down 0.7 percent (Friedan‚ 2012). Reason for this decline is due to the aging population‚ increase in the amount of people in jail and the changing
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not kill human beings. Even if criminals have committed horrible crimes‚ the government does not have the right to execute them. Taking those people into prison is a good solution; because this is a deserved punishment for their crimes and this kind of punishment is much more humane than capital punishment. This type of punishment is strong enough to make scare in criminals’ minds. Furthermore‚ most criminals have committed crimes when they cannot control themselves or they cannot think about the
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Understanding Crime Statistics 1. The level of recorded crime may decrease due to the enormous pressure and expectations put on police departments by society to keep crime down. Increased and improved police resources and harsher custodial sentences is what Police departments claim to be the reason for the reduction in crime. However this being said it has been suggested that Police departments may have altered crime statistic figures‚ in order to meet new Home Office efficiency targets
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One such influential psychological theory of crime is by Bowlby (1969)‚ who emphasized that crime is the product of attachment insecurity with the mother. Bowlby identified that the type of attachment relationship in childhood leads to the development of a cognitive framework known as the internal working model which consists of mental representations for understanding the world‚ self and others. A person’s actions and interactions are guided by this internal working model and influences their contact
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