Once the “guilty mind” and “guilty action” have been established, then an action is considered a criminal act as long as it violates a law. Laws referred to asgovern those actions most people would generally agree are wrong, such as murder, rape, and theft. While laws that aremalum ...
CRIMINAL procedureThe act of criminalising conduct has been understood by many theorists as a form of communication. This paper proposes a model, based on speech-act theory, for understanding how that act of communication works. In particular, it focuses on analysing how and where wrongfulness can...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic-controlled Washington city council on Monday withdrew a bill aimed at overhauling the city's criminal code, which Congress had been set to overturn in a move that President Joe Biden had vowed not to block. "The bill has been pulled ...
Synthetic identity theftis a type of fraud in which a criminal combines real (often stolen) and fake information to create a new identity for fraudulent accounts and purchases. Synthetic identity theft allows criminals to steal money from credit card companies and lenders who extend credit to them...
Mr. Hemmingway may want to watch out for the speeding Wienermobile. Oscar is not happy. ___ August 12, 2011The Law of A&E's Reality TV TroublesReality television tends to get lots of people into lots of trouble. From going to the slammer for failing to pay taxes on reality winnings...
The Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) is a tool provided under the Bank Secrecy Act for monitoring suspicious activities not ordinarily flagged under other reports.
A data leak is whensensitive datais accidentally exposed physically, on the Internet or any other form including lost hard drives or laptops, allowing cyber criminal can gainunauthorized accessto the sensitive data without effort. When sensitive data is posted on the dark web following a cyberattac...
Dude, you’re standing until you sit, you’re sober until you get drunk, and you’re not a criminal until you break the law. You’re not a mass murderer until you kill lots of people. Mass murderer or 2nd Amendment Asshole? Who knows?
When you start talking to a new person that is interested in you it is natural for them to want to keep in touch. So what’s with the disappearing act every now and then? If a person really likes you they won’t contemplate the chance that you’ll forget about them ormove on. They...
On the other end of the hacking spectrum, the cybersecurity community depends on ethical hackers—hackers with helpful rather than criminal intentions—to test security measures, address security flaws and prevent cyberthreats. These ethical hackers make a living by helping companies shore up their ...