illicit drug abuse continues to be a growing problem worldwide and a serious hazard to humanity. the crimes associated with drug abuse include sale or possession of drugs; property crimes or prostitution to support drug habits; and violent crimes reflecting out-of-control behavior. in fact, an offender drug use is involved in more than half of all violent crimes and in 60 to 80 percent of child...

Policy makers have several complementary approaches at their disposal with which to address crime and violence. Sector-specific approaches—such as criminal justice, public health, and conflict transformation/human rights—have a role to play, as do cross-sectoral approaches, such as crime prevention through environmental design and citizen security. The criminal justice approach is the most wide...

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My research interests span the areas of systems security, cyber-crime analysis, big-data security analytics, and machine learning for security. In systems security, I particularly focus on the analysis and detection of advanced and persistent threats, web application security, and web-borne malware defense. In cyber-crime analysis, I focus on malicious sites/URLs, exploit kits, and ransomware. ...

Description: Who are the cybercriminals and what can we do to stop them? From the #1 cybercrime expert, a revolutionary new approach to. Fighting Computer Crime A top computer crime expert explains why current computer security methods fall dangerously short of the mark and what we can do to fix them. Based on his 30 years as a cybercrime fighter, during which he interviewed more than 200 perpe...

Organized crime threatens multiple facets of the United States, including the economy and national security. In fact, the Organized Crime Council was reconvened for the first time in 15 years to address this continued threat. Organized crime has taken on an increasingly transnational nature, and with more open borders and the expansion of the Internet, criminals endanger the United States not o...

An economic perspective has yielded invaluable insights into the analysis and design of information security mechanisms. Systems often fail because the organizations that defend them do not bear the full costs of failure. This simple insight has profound consequences for a growing number of industries, and it extends to dependability as well as security. For instance, utilities reduce direct, m...