Wage theft, or nonpayment of wages to which workers are legally entitled, is a major contributor to low income, which in turn has adverse health effects. We describe a participatory research study of wage theft among immigrant Chinatown restaurant workers. We conducted surveys of 433 workers, and developed and used a health department observational tool in 106 restaurants. Close to 60% of worke...

This report represents a first exploration of the place of illegality in the art market of Australia. It draws upon qualitative data, including interviews and field observations involving over 300 respondents (dealers, museum personnel, police, insurance representatives, and other) to examine the general size and dimensions of theft and fraud in the art world. The report observes that both thef...

The notion of proprietary certificates [7] was recently introduced in an attempt to discourage sharing of access rights to subscription-based resources. A proprietary certificate is a certificate on a public key – the so-called proprietary key – that contains some information related to another (so-called collateral) certificate and has the property that if the owner of the proprietary public k...

Virtual property theft is a serious problem that exists in virtual worlds. Legitimate users of these worlds invest considerable amounts of time, effort and real-world money into obtaining virtual property, but unfortunately, are becoming victims of theft in high numbers. It is reported that there are over 1 billion registered users of virtual worlds containing virtual property items worth an es...

Male and female subjects (n — 65) witnessed a staged theft in which either an expensive object (high seriousness) or an inexpensive object (low seriousness) was stolen, and subjects either had prior knowledge of the object's value or learned of its value only after the theft. When witnesses had prior knowledge of the object's value, accurate identification of the thief was more likely when the ...

Identity theft is the fastest growing crime in the 21 century. This paper investigates firstly what well-known e-commerce organizations are communicating on their websites to address this issue. For this purpose we analyze secondary data (literature and websites of ten organizations). Secondly we investigate the good practice in this area and recommend practical steps. The key findings are that...