Site Map - Crime

10/31/2007 - Links between community policing and the decline in crime throughout the 1990s and early 2000s are examined in this report.

10/31/2007 - A new handlbook helps explain reporting requirements.

10/29/2007 - In an article in the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Special Agent Brian Parsi Boetig explains how, in employing those methods, interrogators can use “criminological theories of deviance” to help gain confessions. For example, the “rational choice” theory posits that people do what’s in their self-interest.

10/29/2007 - Federal agencies are data mining personal information for a variety of purposes, from detecting fraud and abuse in government programs to finding evidence of criminal activities.

10/29/2007 - Research firm Gartner has estimated that ATM and debit-card fraud resulted in $2.75 billion in losses in the 12 months ending in May 2005. Most, it says, resulted from phishing and keystroke-logging attacks that capture account information and PINs. However, research from TowerGroup, a global financial-services advisor, estimates these losses to be much lower, with less than one percent of fraud losses coming from phishing. Most losses, it says, are from stolen cards and card skimming.@ Criminals Exploit Consumer Bank Account and ATM System Weaknesses is $95 through the Gartner Web site. Turning Phishing into Cash: Criminal Convenience at the ATM? is available from TowerGroup for $1,750; a summary is at SM Online.

10/29/2007 - A bill (S. 1408) that would set national standards requiring businesses to report data security breaches to its customers has been approved by the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee. tracking system for all radiation sources in the United States.

10/29/2007 - Success against al Qaeda has given way to nonsectarian crimes.

10/29/2007 - Progress in solving crimes and improving law enforcement is looked at this NIJ report.

10/29/2007 - Learn about the different methods of obtaining confessions in this article.

10/24/2007 - The bipartisan legislation will criminalize threats to damage a computer network.

10/12/2007 - The first national measure of all types of arrest-related deaths shows that 2,002 suspects died while being arrested or while in custody from 2003 through 2005.

10/11/2007 - Oklahoma raid shows value of DEA's Mobile Enforcement Teams.

10/05/2007 - Cities such as New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., have a reputation for high crime.