Essays on Financial Gain

Section 1

Property crime entails taking of property without involving threat or force against the victim. It includes motor vehicle theft, shoplifting, arson, larceny, burglary, as well as vandalism. Motor vehicle theft is among the common forms of property crime. There are several criminal motivations for motor vehicle theft. These include financial gain, commercial, spare parts, object to commit other crimes, as well as transportation. In most cases, those who are involved in motor vehicle theft are motivated by the financial gain (Stauffer & Bonfanti, 2006). In fact, they need money to meet their gambling, drug and alcohol addiction. Financial gains tend ...

Abstract

A Cybercrime is a crime performed through the use of or against digital technologies . The crimes are perpetrated using a computer, computer networks or other information communication technology. The target or victim of the crime is computers or network services. The victim may be random or specifically targets. Typically, the criminal is seeking to gain personal profit or financial gain, but may also be seeking to cause physical damage or make a statement as a form of protest. Cybercrimes began to arise with the introduction of computer systems and have grown and advanced with technology. The investigation of cybercrimes ...

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Sinkholes are a problem across the globe, especially in urban areas. Sinkholes can cause damage to roads, collapse structures, and destroy property. The biggest way to prevent a sink hole is to learn what factors are included in the formation a sinkhole is, how a sinkhole forms, and wheatther or not the sinkhole was naturally formed or if humans created the situation that caused the sinkhole in the first place. While it is not possible to actually prevent natural sinkholes, there are several ways that sinkholes which are created from human activity may be prevented, or at least ...

Organized crime is something between conventional crime and terrorism. It has similarities with the both as well as differences from the both. Perpetuity is the first feature which differentiates organized crime from the conventional one. While the activity of conventional criminals stops with these criminals’ arrest or death, the activity of organized criminal groups usually continues even if one of the members disappears from the scene. Besides, organized crime has more possibilities to diversify their activities. While conventional criminals specialize in one type of crime, criminal organizations can be engaged in different types because their members have more power ...

The chapter under consideration is devoted the problem of white collar crimes, their history and the present-day state of affairs. The issue of white collar crimes is a complicated one because there is certain confusion what kind of offences can be referred to these crimes. Besides, due to the poor coverage of the problem for the public, white collar crimes are thought to be infrequent and, therefore not so important as the conventional crimes which are often associated with violence and direct offence. Moreover, many people sincerely believe that imprisonments for white collar crimes are unnecessary and even unwarranted. ...

Ethics and business finance

1. How does ethics factor into thinking about finance as a method? What key questions do managers need to ask as they perform a financial analysis of a project? Finance is one of the most important methods of any business practice and ethics is a crucial element of all this. The recent situations regarding capital greed and financial impropriety have all shown us that no holds barred capitalism without any sort of ethical considerations is extremely damaging to society as a whole. This means that when conducting financial transactions, ethics needs to be at the forefront of any sort of decision making. The ...