Theft Course Works Samples For Students

I have decided to address my report to the director of Anti-Crime Inc. for the state of Philadelphia. I will be recommending a Business Identity Theft course program. The course objective will aim at training and curbing potential devastating repercussions of a business identity theft, which faces both the employers and employees of not only small-scale businesses, but also medium sized businesses.

A decade ago, it was hard for unauthorized party to acquire and use private personal data of another person, but with the growing technology of computing and networking it is now easier. Personal data, especially credit card, bank account ...

Security and Loss Prevention

The first step will be reviewing the school’s security controls over computer operating system and networks. This is because most identity thieves steal personal information from computer networks by hacking, diverting personal emails to obtain individuals’ emails and using malware programs to steal information. Secondly I will interview university staff to identify potential identity thieves among them. As much as there may be strong security controls around computer systems, they will not deter identity thieves within the organization. Recent studies show that more than fifty percent of identity frauds occur in the victims’ workplace by fraudulent employees who steal ...

Introduction

Medical identity theft and data security breaches have become quite commonplace these days with thousands of reports registered every year. As healthcare management grows increasingly reliant on computerized patient record, more of such issues concerning privacy, security and confidentiality breaches are coming to the fore. The total automation of patient record makes the confidentiality of information vulnerable to unauthorized access and therefore nurses and physicians who have authorized access to the information should be more responsible for keeping the data secure from all kinds of insidious infiltration. Unauthorized access is not the only security challenge facing the healthcare management. ...

Winford Plc is a company that has been awarded a contract by Westriver Borough of operations of the local swimming pool. In order to manage the sales and revenue generated by the services offered, an accounting system, has been developed. The main components of the new system in relation to sales revenue and tickets from vending machines will include principal documentation, the processes involved and the records to be kept (Champlain p.45).

The Principal documentation of the new system will be made up of two parts. The first part is the user documentation. The main purpose of the user documentation is ...

- The sales principal documentation, processes, and records that should be put in place.
In order to achieve maximum benefits the process should be clearly outlined to follow a certain predetermined and generally accepted code. Winford services Plc will adopt a real time system for the entire swimming pool activities from the single visit tickets, seasonal tickets and the vending machines. Real time accounting systems will process and record individual transactions immediately as they occur and therefore there exists no time lags between the transaction occurrence and recording.

The real time ticketing procedure will be initiated in a manual step, whereby ...

Winford Plc is a company that has been awarded a contract by Westriver Borough of operations of the local swimming pool. In order to manage the sales and revenue generated by the services offered, an accounting system, has been developed. The main components of the new system in relation to sales revenue and tickets from vending machines will include principal documentation, the processes involved and the records to be kept.

The Principal documentation of the new system will be made up of two parts. The first part is the user documentation. The main purpose of the user documentation is to assist ...

One of the reported crimes in the world today is identity theft. Identity theft refers to a situation whereby someone steals personal information of another person and uses it without the owner's permission. It is a serious crime, which may cause havoc with individuals reputation, credit history, as well as finances. In most cases, it is complicated to resolve it; hence, demanding patience, money and time to resolve it (Hammond, 2003). There are many ways that an individual can protect his/her identity from being stolen.

These ways include protecting personal information, shopping in secure places, protecting passwords and pin, secure ...

Theft cases, especially stealing mobiles, has been taking place in my community (United Arab Emirates) recurrently causing fear among those individuals who possess these shops that deals with these gadgets. I am not contented with this upcoming problem and that is the reason why I will not rest until I put into practice some solutions that, to me, will help in solving this problem. This is a problem that should be attended to as early as possible, before it becomes a calamity. To me, SARA model will be the appropriate to use for this problem solving. SARA is an ellipsis that ...

As the world continues to thrive in the digital world, developments in technology continue to advance. Humans build their lives around wired and wireless networks, leaving imprints of their personal data available on the internet. In the past years, what is highly noticeable is the rise of various types of computer crimes. With this, the risk of losing personal data or becoming victims of cyber crimes also increases. Not all computer crimes involve damage to the physical property, but rather theft involving software manipulation and breach of human and information privacy. Computer crimes are criminal activities that involve illegal ...

A Case Study on Intellectual Property (George Freestuff Case)

George Freestuff advocates that information including software, games, and movies should be free. He feels strongly against companies who charge too much for such. In response, he and his friends developed Free Range Property (FRP), a program that allows Internet users to share digitized files over the Internet for free.

Ethical Guidelines

Running a site such as the FRP is unethical because it can be considered stealing, that is, taking someone’s property without their permission. In the case of the FRP site, movies, music, and other forms of digital media are being distributed without the owners’ permission. This is against deontological ethics, ...

Virtue Theory

As a human being like Bernard Madoff, he is a businessperson with immoral business conduct. His immoral business conduct is a result of his defective character. He desired for power, fame, money, and abundant lifestyle. All his ambition became a vanity that created a trap and nothing left for him is the difficulty to break free. Moral philosophers categorized his character as vices. Vices are the perfect opposite of virtues. Vices are bad habits of character with its ...

The court that I visited was the Boston Municipal Court which was located at the Government Center T stop on the Green Line. The name of the judge was Honorable Charles R. Johnson. The hearing that I attended was a criminal case involving theft. The defendant was present. He was about 30 years of age and was charged of stealing the money from a grocery store. There was a witness who testified before the court and was the cashier during the time the defendant stole the money. The cashier was a 25 year old girl who was on duty when the crime took ...

Violent crimes involve the use of threats and aggressive force on the victim. Such crimes entail violence as the main idea such as in murder and where it is the goal such as in robbery. When using weapons, such crimes are termed as violent, where in most cases except rape, male are the most venerable victims of violent crimes. Classification of violent crimes in criminology is not a well agreed concept as different legal terms and constitutions are used to define various crimes differently. In United States, there are over 53 jurisdictions into violent crimes and murder (Carey, 2001).

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The employment laws are written to bring a difference in negotiating authority between the employers and employees. These laws were amended for the benefit of the employees, to provide them with healthier working environments, and to keep the cost of the employees low. The contract of the employment between the employer and the employee is the main binding force for the employment rights and duties of the worker. The employment contract represents a relationship of financial dependency and societal subservience. As said by Hogler (2003), the common rule of law states that if the parties do not contract for a particular period ...

Introduction

Identity theft is on the increase. The target of identity theft is usually the high net worth individuals. Corporate executives are exposed to higher risk due to the value of their liquid assets. They need to be educated on the dangers of identity theft and the steps to take to mitigate future losses through this rampant form of fraud. Identity theft is also rampant within an organisation with workers collaborating with outsiders to defraud their bosses. The staff should be aware of the dangers and how to critically buffer the executives and the company as a whole from identity fraud. ...

Stealing is looked down upon in society and more often than not, is always talked about in a negative connotation. Stealing may lead to other offensive acts such as lying or hurting other people. However, when people place emotion above reason they may be able to justify stealing in certain circumstances. Regardless of the reason provided, stealing is wrong and must not be encouraged at any cost. The extent of stealing may be debatable and some acts may not be considered as offensive as others, but the fact remains that stealing is unethical and must ...

Introduction

In compliance with Abacus’ mission statement, which emphasizes the importance of customer service, this Code of Conduct will instruct employees on the unacceptable forms of behavior. Because Abacus is transitioning from the manufacturing industry to a company oriented on customer service, employees are expected to maintain a high level of professionalism, performance, and responsible behavior at the workplace. However, according to Abacus’ belief in the positive discipline approach, the company also informs the employee about their rights, the company’s responsibility in improving problematic behavioral patterns, and the outcomes of such disciplinary actions.

Workplace Performance Expectations

Employees who work in customer relations have the ...

Limitations of the internal control systems

Internal controls are the procedures that the management institutes in the company in order to ensure the operations are running smoothly. The objective of implementing an internal control system is to ensure effectiveness and efficiency in the business, enable management detect, prevent and correct irregularities and ensure the organizational assets are safeguarded from misuse or theft. The internal control system however has some limitations. They are events that occur that will prevent the system from accomplishing the mentioned objectives (Pfister, 2009). The three inherent limitations of the internal control system are:
1) Collusion
One of the crucial ...

Introduction

Huffman Trucking Company has requested a new Election Benefits System which will be used to manage the benefit packages of its employees. The current system that is used by the company includes vision, dental, and medical plans for employees. In the benefits election system, the package that the employee will choose will be stored and managed by the system which has database capability to help in the retrieval, updating, and storage procedures of the system. The records that are stored in the database are either hardcopy or electronic. Whoever method that the records are stored; there is a need ...

a) Categories of Police Corruption:

- Opportunistic Theft: This is a category where the cop who arrests a person for stealing some crime, steals the criminals stuff away secretly or including partners with him. Perusing his case further or letting him go after the bribe.

- ‘Shakedowns’ This happens when an officer is offered bribe which is usually an amount of money or something valuable and he/she accepts it in return of letting the criminal go without going through a criminal violation.

- ‘Flaking’ or ‘Padding’: That is adding something to the evidence or planting something which had not ...

Introduction

Misconduct is an unacceptable behavior that goes against an organizations laws and regulations. Hence, employee misconduct is a violation of the organizations set rules by an employee. On the response to the employee misconduct, the employer should be familiar with how to handle these instances to avoid recurrence. Occasionally, it is important to introduce a disciplinary committee that will deal with employee misconduct. The human resource manager is responsible for employee misconduct handling and taking necessary actions (Dempsey, 2010). There are many types of employee misconduct such as;

- Excessive tardiness or absences
- Insubordination
- Rudeness and abusive ...

(a). Principal Documentation Processes and Records

Karla Kay plc payments should be in such a way that no single person controls the entire transaction alone. The procedure for payment should include a presentation of formal documents to the authority that sanction the payment. The authorities should have a limit on sanction powers such that some payment requires the top management of KK Company to sanction. The records and documents of payments must be properly recorded in the cashbook and maintained. Checks have to be pre-numbered and checked to avoid double payment. Checkbooks should be kept in safe custody. Internal audits of payment are ...

There are several benefits to using business mobility. The first benefit is that it can enhance mobility. It allows activities online can be performed anywhere when they were once lied to a physical location. The second benefit is that it provides access to data immediately, which can add value. The third benefit is that it increases the mobility capacity and the location. A person is going to have the ability to monitor and locate their assets. Therefore, a person will be able to reduce the amount of losses that they could have from theft. (Baltzan, 2012).

The fourth benefit is that ...

1. What key needs in local law enforcement agencies must be met to improve response to computer crimes? How is the issue of computer crime currently addressed, and how do you feel that law enforcement responses could improve? Explain.

The of the key needs in local law enforcement agencies in improving the response to computer crime is keeping pace with the Tech-savvy criminals. There are has been tremendous changes in the computer field. The computing environment is becoming more and more complex. As such, the computer criminals are also coming up with sophisticated ways of overcoming the security mechanism ...

Question 1. Identify the four specific categories of computer crimes. Provide an example for each category and explain the influence on society and criminal justice operations that the crime has under each category.

According to Carter (1995), there are 4 general types of computer crimes. First is computer as target. In this category of crime, the computer is the target and types of offenses under this category include theft of intellectual property. Other crimes falling under this category include theft of market information, unlawful access of government records and trespass. This crime has a great influence on society and criminal ...

Question one

The Crime Control Model is a justice system that focuses on keeping criminals away from the society so that the innocent feel safe. This model proposes that a criminal conduct should be put under tight control and laws be enforced to the later. According to Cole and Gertz (2003), if laws are not enforced, the innocent will fall prey to invasions as criminals breach the laws, the Crime Control model lays emphasis on the ability of investigators and prosecutors, based on their distinctive skills; to press charges against a suspect.

According to Cole and Gertz (2003) Crime Control Model is conservative in ...

The factors of the American culture that caused varying and unrealistic ideas about Native Americans included the fact that the natives were seen as the enemies of progress. Further they were also seen as standing in the way of settlement. These factors led to stereotyping of the natives who as a result were subjected to various atrocities. Such atrocities were aimed at provoking the natives so that they could reiterate. Their (natives) retaliation against the atrocities was then as an excuse to attack the natives. The natives were therefore regarded as savages who had to be christened and modernized. As ...

In the process of setting up a VPN company, several aspects have to be put into consideration. Among the several aspects that are critically examined is the aspect of risk and risk management. In this scope, the area of specialization being in provision of shared secure network has some technical risks associated with the sector. The most common threats or risks most likely to happen are physical damage to the network devices, poor quality cabling, malicious threats posed by an intruder who may penetrate into the local network. Another risk which might occur is theft of the equipment or poor ...

Introduction

This paper explores how human behavior can negatively and positively affect the environment. The body of the paper covers the following topics: 1) An explanation (with examples) of how environmental cues shape behavior; 2) How behavior can be modified to support sustainability and how this can limit any negative impact on the environment; 3) How social norms influence behavior and beliefs about the environment; 4) Two possible solutions that could successfully change behavior and habits in order to lessen negative environmental impact.

How Environmental Cues Shape Behavior

Cavanaugh & Fitzsimons (2009) co-authored a paper entitled “Happy Holidays? How Sights and Sounds of the Holidays ...

The objective of this report is to present analysis on how RFID are being used to improve the efficiency and quality of organizations, their products and services. The report has been divided into three sections namely introduction, which provides a brief discussion on the general relation of information technology to business most particularly the RFID. The methods used to construct this report is through random research of the topic and used the obtained readings to support the thesis. It was concluded through the readings and findings that RFID was able to improve efficiency of companies in term of securing their ...

1. How have phishing attacks compromised major systems?

Phishing attacks aim to steal information from the user’s computer and this is usually done through email messages that mimic those from a legitimate company, but which contain fraudulent information and fraudulent links. Once the link is clicked then the user’s personal information gets stolen. It can also be that the installation of a particular application or the opening of an email may cause Trojans or key loggers to be installed in the computer. These Trojans then work in the background to steal the user’s information.

The stolen information is used to launder money, steal identities, and access ...

This text offers clear and accessible information with reference to its state of the art introduction of the burgeoning area of computer ethics as well as professional responsibility. It covers discussions of lead topics like the social contexts of computing, history of basic computing, techniques and methods of ethical analysis and professional responsibility. This case study also mentions much to do with risks and liabilities, codes of ethics, computer security, computer crime and mostly viruses and hacking. The related issues that emerge from the basic focus o the case include data privacy and protection, intellectual property and ‘open ...

The life-cycle of an information system is composed of seven (7) stages. This includes planning, analysis, design, implementation, testing, training, and maintenance. Planning stage involves identification of the current stage of the organization in terms of Information System implementation and what does the company want to be within a specified period of time. It also involves the identification of the goals and objectives of the company in terms of IT implementation or utilization. This stage is very crucial to the development of an information system because everything starts from the plan. If anything goes wrong in this stage, then there ...

I have chosen to explain the term Phishing as is often used in computer security field. This concept is weighty on the study and eventual work that I will find myself involved in. As an information technology student, with vast interest in computer security, I find it appropriate to explain this terminology and describe it fully in a bid to shed more light and derive deeper understanding of the concept. Having a deeper understanding of phishing will surely translate to better management of security issues in the information and communication technology field.

Many scholars have come up with definitions of the ...

Task 1

Explain the nature and role of accounts. You need to also explain why James and Rebecca need to produce accounting information in order to make financial decisions.

Answer

Accounting is the process of identifying, measuring and reporting economic information to the owners of business and all interested parties (Joel, 2008). Business transactions have financial implication on a business in both short term and long term (Frank & Allan, 2005). Some of the transactions are sale or purchases of fixed assets or current assets, paying of business expenses, and settling current liabilities among other business transactions. Accounting involves identifying, measuring and reporting ...

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Organized crime refers to the criminal activities of gangs who plan their activities before unlashing the crime. They do not just act but do so after planning strategically.
The future of organized crime and drugs is rather bleak, and it will be difficult for criminal justice to be rendered especially in the Americas where organized crime has taken new technological heights, with criminal activities being organized online and not manually. Knowing the faces behind these criminal activities becomes difficult and they have attracted very many people because of their sophisticated use of the technology ( ...

Introduction

Outsourcing is a situation where a company contracts another company to do a specific ob for them. A good example would be a shoe manufacturing company contracting a transporting company to transport and distribute their products for them (Reed 2005). Outsourcing is an activity that has been going on for some time and it is yet to end. Outsourcing takes a number of forms, the two common ones being: the Information Technology outsourcing and the Business Process outsourcing. Generally, outsourcing entails a process of four stages, namely; a) strategic thinking, b) evaluation and selection, c) contract development, and, d) outsourcing governance. Outsourcing has its own advantages and disadvantages, ...

Introduction

Efficient manipulation of information is the key concept towards ensuring effectiveness in the organization operations and facilitating the organization to match up the present competitive nature of both local and global market. This therefore implies that the paradigm of strategic planning needs to change frequently in order support the new and emerging technologies in information technology and information systems. Strategic Information System planning (SISP) is always directed towards assisting the business enterprise or organization in the realization of its business goals and objectives through the identification of necessary portfolio and implementation of computer based application that will aid the ...

Introduction

Over the years the growth and development of the internet has brought many opportunities for businesses and individuals to gather personal information about other users and to direct their advertising at these people. However, the means by which these things are done give rise to many ethical issues. For one thing, there is the question of whether an individual’s browser history is his or her private property, or is it something which others should be allowed to share? Another issue is at what point are companies being simply unethical? At what point are they breaking the law? At ...

Discipline may be described as the ways, means, and avenues or channels used by the managers of institutions, businesses or other corporations to identify, investigate and rectify or correct misconduct or infringements among its staff in order to ensure compliance to the laid down company rules and regulations. Discipline is critical in the work place; it makes an organization to be cohesive and better able to achieve its goals (Imundo 1993). Discipline can be thought of as observance of set rules that guides workplace conduct of employees. Because there must be cases of indiscipline in the organization, disciplinary mechanism ...