Cybercrime in Europe (blog 8)

Technology is used throughout the whole world; many people are dependent on it.   Just as many others Europe use technology, more so than any other place around the world.  European societies are increasingly dependent on electronic networks and information systems.

Cyber crime is becoming more and more popular throughout the years, with the expansion of technology growing more and more of everyday, of every hour, of every second.  Cyber crime is targeted to technology, it covers new crimes specific to the Internet, such as attacks against information systems or phishing.  An Example of the new crime is a criminal creating fake bank websites to solicit passwords allowing complete access to victim’s bank accounts.  Computers are also used as criminal tools to compel more traditional crimes, such as fraud and the distribution of illegal content.  An example of the more “traditional” crime is sharing child sexual abuse material or encouragement to violence on the Internet.  There are now more efficiently highly sophisticated cyber-attacks.

Given the development of the rapid increase of cyber crime in recent years, the Commission has designed a coordinated policy in close cooperation with Europe States and the other Europe institutions.  In February of this year they have developed a Communication of cyber security strategy.  The Commission Communications has set out the new policy: increased law enforcement cooperation, public-private partnerships and international cooperation to try and decrease cyber crime.

Cyber crime is a very difficult crime to tackle, mainly because there are many people who are very sophisticated with technology and always will be.  Europe is trying to slowly put a halt to it, but it should be an eye opener to the rest of us that we need to jump on board and also stop cyber crime.  Europe may be one of the biggest countries to use technology but other countries are not that far behind.  Cyber crime could happen to any of us.

http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/home-affairs/what-we-do/policies/organized-crime-and-human-trafficking/cybercrime/index_en.htm

Lisa Mullins

Soc 202-02

March 26, 2013

4:50 p.m.

Blog 8

Drug lord caught in the uk (blog 7)

The United Kingdom has caught a big drug lord and is now being brought to justice.  Phillip Baron was running one of the largest smuggling operations in the United Kingdom.   Baron was importing three hundred million euros (which is about three point eight million dollars) worth of narcotics into Britain.  Baron was one of the last remaining kingpins of an international network of organized criminal gangs that had surrounded the United Kingdom with a tremendous amount of illegal drugs.  Baron was living the good lavish lifestyle for over fifteen years.  To maintain such a high organized crime he had help with over twenty eight gang members (who have now been brought up on charges as well.)  Most of them have already received a sentence.  Sadly, Baron involved his daughter, Rachel who is thirty into his organized crime. Baron was suspected of manipulating his daughter into moving one million euros in drug money.   Rachel also received jail time but less than the others.

There is no doubt that this needs to be brought to the public eye.  Having the public aware of this can help prevent such a big operation from happening again or at least help it decrease the drug operations.  Many of Barons friend were living a normal lifestyle until he drug them into the operation, knowing that each of them could play a specific part that best suited them.  Most of them were probably pressured or scared into committing these crimes, and it shouldn’t be that way.  We as a whole country should make everyone feel safe and be able to go get help if they feel they are in danger.  Some may have been willing due to the incredible amount of money received.  In the end many bad things occurred from this drug operation, peoples identities were stolen as well as using companies were being used to cover up the operation.  Many people and companies will never get their good “name” or reputation back, or it will be a struggle for them.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/26/druglord-jailed-police-smuggling-operation

Lisa Mullins

Soc 202-02

March 26, 2013

4:03 p.m.

Japanese tourists killed

In Japan Today shook Japan’s nation.  Two of their own were stabbed to death and an eight month old baby was stabbed at a Guam resort where over a million Japanese tourists go a year.  On February 12^th, 2013 Chad Ryan Desoto, 21, had good intentions on stabbing everyone he could find and see, which a grand total of harming fourteen Japanese tourist. His plan was to kill people with his vehicle as well which consisted of eight of the fourteen injured.  Two of the eight stabbed people resulted in fatal injuries.  Desoto rammed his car into a convince store and then got out and started stabbing people.  The eight month old did end up surviving.  Police say that there is no explanation of why this occurred or his reasoning for committing this crime. 

This article did have some downsides to it; there was information but not a whole lot.  The article did not discuss Chad Ryan Desoto history or pass whether he has had criminal history.  The article also did not report on what kind of action was being taking upon his attack.  They did not state whether the Japanese where going to continue to travel and go on vacation there, or if they would have higher security, they did not ensure anybody in this situation or at least did not talk about it.  Although there were downfalls to the article it did discuss a recent crime that happened a few days ago.  They did have witnesses to back up their story and to make the story legit.  The article should hopefully be adding more details on what will happen to the criminal and the actions that will be taken after this.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/3-dead-11-hurt-after-man-goes-on-stabbing-spree-at-guam-resort

Lisa Mullins

Soc 202-02

February 15, 2013

4:29 P.M.

Blog 2 Australian doping

Doping has been a crime that has happened almost everywhere around the country in a lot of sports.  It is considered one of the most major crimes in sports.  Legal action of doping is very serious to the athletes, because they take away their life career that they have worked for.  Doping punishment consist of taking away any right to participate in a sport or even coach it.  The anti-doping law is trying to become stricter and be able to sentence them to jail.  Some say that they feel as if they are being too harsh on punishment and need to become more aware of trying to stop doping from happening.  Many athletes view doping as something that is not serious but it is, doping is a drug, and it may help you in sports but it still does damage to your body that you cannot reverse.  The Australian sport world has recently been shocked to learn that many of their athletes have been doping; Australia has been one of the countries to not fall under the sports cheating world.  As Australian Justice Minister Jason Clare said “It's cheating, but it's worse than that. It's cheating with the help of criminals." The Australian Crime Commission's has been working on this yearlong investigation and found that the connection in drug use and organized crime in many sports.  The nation had its pride of how they were the only ones to participate in clean sports, and now they are completely humiliated.  Many of the players were found to be injecting the illegal drug into their systems.  This major crime is still an ongoing investigation; it has led to many more numerous crimes upon Australia.   Some say it was bound to happen sooner or later. 

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/07/sport/australia-sports-doping-reaction/?hpt=hp_c3

http://theconversation.edu.au/punishing-doping-athletes-isnt-a-long-term-solution-9387

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/feb/07/australian-doping-sport-drugs




Lisa Mullins
Soc 202-02
2/8/13  3:24 pm

crime

Crime will never go away.  We will always have some type of crime but over the past decade. Crime has miraculously gone down and keeps going down over the years.    The United States crime fell for the fifth consecutive year. Murders have gone down about 0.7 percent, robberies dropped 4 percent, aggravated assaults declined 3.9 percent, and forcible rapes were down 2.5 percent. Property crime has also gone down tremendously over the past nine years. Property crime managed to drop by 0.5 percent last year.  Many people may find this untrue, but that is because media presents it that way.  In the later years they had news, but not like the news we have today. We have more of a way to spread the word of brutal killings and tragic crime.  Another reason for crime rates to dwindle down is we don’t have access to as many dangerous weapons as before; we have more laws and stricter laws at that.  Criminologists have more reasons such as the technology improvement, such as surveillance cameras, alarm systems, and various other protecting systems.  They have also found a higher incarceration and a more aging population.   Crime still remains a serious problem.  Most are dealing with gang, drugs, or poverty.  There were 14,612 murders last year, on average one every 36 minutes. That's a small decline from 14,722 the previous year before that but murder has declined by seventeen percent over the past decade.  Having crime decrease over the past years, it is now decreasing at a slower rate stated by criminologist James Alan Fox. 

 http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/29/justice/us-violent-crime/index.html

 

Lisa Mullins 

February 1, 2013

11:48 AM