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Cybercriminals are using social networking websites like Facebook to gain backdoor access to business computer networks, reports USA Today. The intrusions can expose a company to theft of its most sensitive data. Such attacks illustrate a dramatic shift underway in the Internet underground. Cybercriminals are moving aggressively to take advantage of social networks in workplace settings, an unanticipated chink in corporate defenses. (more…)
Victim Rights Advocate
Nevada
gaylefarley@sbcglobal.net
Former Chair
Nevada Board of Parole Commissioners
Nevada
Xtexn@aol.com
More than 100,000 people disappear every year in the U.S. But there are few national tools to help anxious relatives locate their loved ones.
Casey King, 30, was juggling a newborn baby and two older children when her husband Jody went missing last April. She had no doubt something was wrong. Jody, 28, adored his children—and it was hard to believe he would disappear voluntarily a few weeks after the birth of their third daughter.
But convincing law enforcement, public officials, and others was a different matter.
Policy Analyst, Corrections Statistics Program
Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice
810 7th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20531
PH: 202-353-2132
FX: 202-514-1757
christopher.mumola@usdoj.gov
Press office contact, Kara McCarthy. She can be reached at Kara.McCarthy@usdoj.gov or at 202-307-1241.
A reporter looks at day-to-day practices in American courtrooms, and finds them wanting.
Last year in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., two juvenile judges were indicted on charges of taking millions of dollars in kickbacks in exchange for sending children to a private prison. But this shouldn’t have come as a surprise to anyone who had studied the daily procedures in their courtrooms.
Time Magazine reports that dozens of prisoners in Britain have found a sinister use for Facebook: after being locked up for offenses such as murder and assault, inmates are taunting and terrorizing their victims through status updates and group wall posts. Barry Mizen, whose 16-year-old son Jimmy was murdered in 2008, says his family endured months of personal attacks on a Facebook page that was created after Jimmy’s killer, Jake Fahri, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison last March. (more…)
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ACJS Annual Meeting
“Beyond Our Boundaries: The Inclusivity of Criminal Justice Sciences”
February 23-27, 2010
San Diego, California
In a series called “True Crime,” published between September 27 and December 18, 2009, the paper sought to depict the truth about crime in their city through an innovative mapping project.
Read the case study. Click here and the document will download to your desktop.
Learn how to create your own crime database. Click here and the document will download to your desktop.
Contact reporters, editors and computer reporters for additional information. Click here and the document will download to your desktop.
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