Essays on Crime Prevention

A Seattle boy Dade “Zero Cool” Murphy (Jonny Lee Miller) is arrested and charged, at the age of 11, with crashing 1,507 systems in one day and causing a single-day 7-point drop in the New York Stock Exchange. And because of that he was banned to own or operate a computer or touch-tone telephones until…

Based on the various hypothesis, theories, and strategies supplied by the likes of Shaw & McKay (1931), Sampson & Groves (1989), C. Ray Jeffrey (1971), Jane Jacobs(1961), Oscar Newman (1972), Cohen and Felson (1979) , and Paul and Patricia Brantingham (1981), it seems that environmental criminology focuses not only on the criminal event itself, but…

Introduction A. Thesis: Biometric technology is used for a variety of many things, but its mostly dedicated to identify and verification methods. B. Biometric Technology has been used before the 20th century starting the in the 14th century in China using handprints and foot prints to identify each other. Body Paragraph 1 A. Main Idea:…

Crime must be punished, but the methods as to how to punish crime can prove to deliver very different results. Randall Collins says in his book the Sociological Insight that the modern punishment of crime characterized by courtrooms has a ritualistic purpose for the non-deviants of a society rather than for the offenders (1992). Collins…

Implementation of an Organization-wide Security Plan Looking at the network diagram provided I determined that the user, workstation, LANA, LANA-to-WAN, and system/application domains involved in the company should be redesigned to implement better access controls to provide multi-layered security. The most important access control implementation would be the user domain where the company should put…

There has been an increase in global technology over the past few years. The increase in technology allows us to have access to many things from almost maneuvered, such as the Internet. People can find information right at their fingertips faster and easier than ever before. However, with this increase in technology comes an increase…

Fingerprints can identify us and only us. Everyone’s fingerprints are different; there are no two alike. That’s why they prove so useful when identifying dead bodies or fingerprints at a crime scene. Police use them at crime scenes; banks use them to identify checks. There are so many different uses for fingerprints. Fingerprints are read…

Case Study: When Hackers Turn to Blackmail 1. The introduction of Sunnylake hospital case The use of information technology in business presents major security challenges, poses serious ethical question, and affects society in significant ways. Especially, the computer crime is a growing threat to society and is caused by the criminal or irresponsible actions of…

In his essay Panopticism. Focault gives support to the basic statement refering the panopticon. that communicating is cardinal to knowledge. Within the panopticon. there is no communicating among the captives or those who view them. He breaks down our societal or economical systems and explains societies outlook on the jurisprudence system. He answer the “why’s”…

Biometric SystemsAs defined in Computer Security Basics by O’Reilly ; Associates, Inc. Biometrics is the use of a persons unique physiological, behavioral, andmorphological characteristics to provide positive personal identification. Biometric systems that are currently avaiable today examine fingerprints,handprints, and retina patterns. Systems that are close to biometrics but arenot classified as such are behavioral systems…