by DerBingle

Two years ago when hackers broke into the Heartland Payment Systems database they stole one hundred and thirty million credit and debit card numbers. The trail eventually led to a Miami man who confessed to authorities that he and several others were also responsible for the theft of another 40 million card numbers from a number of major companies.

By Nahshon Roberts

The gruesome crime committed on board a passenger bus serves as a warning to all. The hideous beheading in the bus is an indication that video security cameras inside the vehicle could have alerted the bus driver and the other passengers that someone was fighting for his life.

by Susan Eaton

In 1994, Legislation was passed which paved the way for the Violence Against Women Act. This Legislation provided $1.6 billion to enhance investigation and prosecution of the violent crimes perpetrated against women. However, the heinous crimes against women continue to increase each year. Preliminary results for the first half of 2006 revealed that there was a 3.7 percent increase in all violent crimes compared to the first half of 2005.

by Tom Ajava

The old adage is crime doesn’t pay, but one certainly can wonder sometimes about the accuracy of it given the number of politicians that seem to be criminals! Regardless, the fact you are making money from a crime doesn’t mean you don’t have to pay taxes. That’s right. The IRS wants its unfair share of your ill gotten gains!

By Connor R Sullivan

by Galway
Once again the New Year was heralded in with a host of reported stabbings in the UK. Seemingly the policies put forward by the government are proving ineffectual in tackling knife crime in the country. It now appears to be a weekly occurrence that a victim suffers an attack that all too commonly leads to death.

by Scott Hughes

When we talk of crime and victimization, I think we often think of street crime, as in individual acts by individual persons, such as rape and assault. However, corporations perform the most major forms of criminal victimization.

By Dr. Randy Wysong

can’t get too excited about victimless crimes, that is to say crimes in which the only victim is the person committing it. Those who want to self-destruct – provided the consequences are not shouldered by others – have the right to do it. Everyone has the moral responsibility for their own person.

Violent Crime Trends in the U.S.
By Betty Mydland

The nature of violent crime is the loss of life, or the maiming and/or destruction of a life to such a degree that the victim seldom, if ever, recovers fully from the incident.