1 Crimes related to computer security 1.1 Types of computer crimes • Damages to computer programs or files • Theft of hardware, software • View or manipulate the content that the intruder is not supposed to see. 1.2 Four types of ethical issues [1] • Privacy: The policy of which information could be required to divulge, be public, or be kept strictly private. • Accuracy: Misinformation could mi...

This study has two goals. The first is to use Markov Switching models to identify and analyze the cycles in the unemployment rate and four different types of property-related criminal activities in the US. The second is to apply the nonparametric concordance index of Harding and Pagan (2006) to determine the correlation between the cycles of unemployment rate and property crimes. Findings show ...

The past decade in the United States has been characterized by a widening in the distribution of wage income. While much research has attempted to uncover the causes of these earnings trends, much less is known about their impact upon social and economic factors. This study examines evidence for links between changes in distribution of wage income and criminal activity. Using extreme bounds ana...

There is a broad consensus that the Internet has greatly expanded possibilities for traditional transit crimes such as wildlife trafficking. However, the extent to which the Internet is exploited by criminals to carry out these types of activities and the way in which it has changed how these crimes are carried out remains under-investigated. Based on interviews and investigative cases, this pa...