News tagged with white collar crime

Cybercrimes (via cell phones) up in 2011

Addicted as we are to our online life and our mobile devices, it's no surprise that a growing number of cyber-criminals are lurking out there with us.

Technology / Other

created May 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The 12-step path to white-collar crime

Adelphia Communications, Barings Bank, Enron, HealthSouth, HIH Insurance, Hollinger International, Tyco International, WorldCom/MCI, Xerox... the white collar crime list goes on. But, did the executives at these companies ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 2




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Corrupt UK?

Corruption is a much greater problem in the UK than previously recognised and needs to be responded to by enforcement, transparency and accountability, according to a University expert.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Federal probe of eBay may turn on quest for rival's 'secret sauce'

With eBay Inc. and Craigslist entrenched in a scorching legal feud last year, a Delaware judge observed that eBay's "curious" decision to partner with the San Francisco online classified ad power back in 2004 was "an opportunity ...

Technology / Business

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Brain basis for crime?

Adrian Raine, a Penn Integrates Knowledge professor in the Departments of Criminology, Psychiatry and Psychology, presented a collection of his work on neurocriminology that broadly attempts to connect criminal, psychopathic ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Feb 28, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 6

Narcissistic students don't mind cheating their way to the top

College students who exhibit narcissistic tendencies are more likely than fellow students to cheat on exams and assignments, a new study shows.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 30, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Internet fraud's U.S. price tag put at $550 million

U.S. citizens reported losing more than $550 million in 2009 in Internet fraud, falling prey to a variety of increasingly sophisticated scams, according to a report by the Internet Crime Complaint Center.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 15, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Technology, sour economy breed, feed Internet scams

Ute Schnetzinger thought the bride was demanding. Only later did the Richardson, Texas, florist learn she was bogus.

Technology / Internet

created May 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Reports of Internet crime jump 33 percent

(AP) -- Reports of Internet-based crime jumped 33 percent in 2008, according to a group that monitors web-based fraud.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 30, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Exonerations correct only a small fraction of false convictions

(PhysOrg.com) -- Criminal justice scholars often say that the true number of innocent people convicted of crimes is unknown—in fact, unknowable. A new University of Michigan study challenges that belief in one important context.

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Middle class relaxing with marijuana

A variety of middle-class people are making a conscious but careful choice to use marijuana to enhance their leisure activities, a University of Alberta study shows.

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 14, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (21) | comments 5

Top 10 Internet Crimes of 2006

What Internet crimes to people complain to the government about?

Technology / Internet

created Apr 20, 2007 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (63) | comments 0


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