CYBER CRIMES Now a day in this world cyber crime is on the rise. Everywhere you look everyone uses a computer for messaging‚ banking‚ keeping in contact with families‚ gaming‚ and many other things. Cyber crime is presenting big problems for criminologists nowadays‚ 1.) it is rapidly evolving‚ new things being built every day. 2.) It is difficult to detect through law enforcement channels‚ 3.) planning or coordinating its control demands technical skills that match those of the perpetrators. There
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MANILA‚ Philippines—Liking and sharing libelous material on Facebook and retweeting similarly defamatory content on Twitter would make a netizen liable under the Cybercrime Prevention Act‚ Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago warned on Saturday. These are some of the punishable acts prescribed by the new law that makes Republic Act No. 10175 violative of the constitutional provision on free speech‚ said Santiago‚ a former trial court judge and magistrate-in-waiting to the International Court of Justice
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cyberstalking‚ cyber threats and many more (Singapore Children’s Society‚ 2010). The sudden rise in suicide cases among the younger generations
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What Is Cyber Law? A group of petitioners in Philippines‚ consisting of lawmakers‚ bloggers and students‚ have sought a temporary restraining order (TRO) on the country’s implementation of its Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012--making it the sixth filed against the controversial legislation. According to GMA News Online on Monday‚ the petition centered on the definition of online libel stated in the law‚ specifically sections 4‚ 5 and 6‚ which the petitioners say are "unconstitutional due to
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dilemmas associated with relying on police statistics as a measure of crime. When the annual crime statistics are reported‚ they can generate many emotions within society. These feelings can be conflicting depending on whether the crime statistics show an increase or decrease in crime fields. When crime rates are down the community feels relieved‚ protected and safe‚ restoring confidence in the legal system‚ however when crime rates are high‚ there is a sense of community fear‚ insecurity and a
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discussed. Also in this paper the discussion on how crime‚ twin studies‚ adoption studies‚ and testosterone studies are linked to genetics will be discussed. This essay will show some of the strengths and weaknesses of the evidence that is linked to genetics and crime. I will also be giving my feelings on whether or not I agree with police departments using these findings‚ or if they should dismiss such findings. The link between genetics and crimes is a very contentious topic when it comes to
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ON THE ECONOMICS OF ORGANIZED CRIME By Vimal Kumar and Stergios Skaperdas Department of Economics University of California‚ Irvine Irvine‚ CA 92697 Revised: February 13‚ 2008 Prepared for inclusion in: Garoupa‚ Nuno (ed.)‚ Criminal Law and Economics ABSTRACT: The core function of organized crime is the selling of protection. Protection can be real‚ against third-party crime‚ or manufactured by the organized crime groups themselves. Mafias and gangs emerge in areas of weak state control‚ because
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Theories of Crime Abstract This thesis explores the relatively new criminal phenomena of computer crime‚ or as it is more commonly termed‚ hacking. The foundation for the examination is based on how well traditional psychological theories of crime and deviance explain this new behaviour. Dominant theories in each of the categories of psychoanalytic‚ learning and control are discussed. The thesis concludes that for the most part‚ traditional psychological theories are deficient with regard
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Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 is the first law in the Philippines which specifically criminalizes computer crime‚ which prior to the passage of the law had no strong legal precedent in Philippine jurisprudence‚ While laws such as the Electronic Commerce Act of 2000(Republic Act No. 8792) regulated certain computer-related activities‚ these laws did not provide a legal basis for criminalizing crimes committed on a computer in general. The initial draft of the law started in 2002 from the former Information
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exploitation‚ cyber stalking‚ and obscenity. Few challenges include overlapping effort‚ lack of funding‚ overlapping jurisdictions‚ and priority. The purpose of this paper is to explain in detail the greatest challenge law enforcement agencies investigating exploitation‚ cyber stalking‚ and obscenity‚ the specific challenges with overlapping of jurisdictions and solutions for overcoming these challenges‚ and to discuss if states should have the ability to work with one another when a cyber- crime is carried
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