White-Collar Crime Definitions, Extent, and Consequences S ecti on Hi g h l i g h ts •• •• •• •• •• •• White-Collar Crime: An Evolving Concept Modern Conceptualizations of White-Collar Crime Extent of White-Collar Crime Consequences of White-Collar Crime Public Attitudes About White-Collar Crime Characteristics of White-Collar Offenders A 34 s noted in the introduction, Edwin Sutherland created the concept of white-collar crime more than 70 years ago to draw attention to the fact that crimes are
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The Emerald Research Register for this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/researchregister The current issue and full text archive of this journal is available at www.emeraldinsight.com/0268-6902.htm Anatomy of computer accounting frauds A. Seetharaman, M. Senthilvelmurugan and Rajan Periyanayagam Faculty of Management, Multimedia University, Malaysia Keywords Fraud, Corruption, Financial reporting, Whistleblowing, Internal control, Corporate governance Abstract This paper introduces
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MBA 514 August 14, 2012 Introduction Toni Preckwinkle is the president of Cook County Board of Commissioners. Ms. Preckwinkle is adamant about reducing the populations of the County Cook Jail and the county’s Temporary Detention Center. Ms. Preckwinkle says as she was giving her budget address to a group of commissioners, “detaining defendants in jail while they await trial is very expensive for the county and is detrimental to our communities” (1). For the purpose of this paper the focus will
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of this bias on the error rates of PCA/LDA based verification systems, using both synthetic data with realistic parameters and real biometric data. Results of bias correction in the verification systems differ considerable between synthetic data and real data: while the bias is responsible for a large part of classification errors in the synthetic facial data, compensation of the bias in real facial data leads only to marginal improvements. https://www.eff.org/wp/biometrics-whos-watching-you September
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Causes of Crimes Siwan Abubakar Writing 222 Mrs. Elliott 11/6/13 Abubakar 1 Siwan Abubakar Writing 222 Mrs. Elliott 11/6/13 Causes of Crimes Violent crimes are when criminals use or threaten to use violence against a victim. It is also is four types of aggressive crimes combined together. The four types of crimes are murder, rape, kidnapping and aggravated assault. The meaning of murder is when the criminal takes the victim’s life away. Rape is when the criminal
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decisions about data, Output: display of info, Storage: location of data on computer 4. Information system 5. Hardware/software 6. System software 7. -Application software: software to accomplish specific tasks like word processing or surfing the internet 8. Input/input devices: 9. Peripherals 10. -Data vs. information: data: raw unorganized facts, Info: organized data 11. Output/output devices 12. Types of computers 13. Ethics 14. Data mining 15
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ability of Nollywood industry in the past, and expresses concern on the reverse focus on the negative themes and its negative impact on youth behaviour and the image of Nigeria. The qualitative and quantitative data analysis based on the empirical secondary and primary data were employed. The data collected on both were presented in tabular form and analyzed using simple percentages. Purposive random sampling technique and questionnaire as an instrument were used during the class-meeting. Keywords:
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Tenure and Termination Grand Canyon University: EDA 555 June 4, 2013 The greatest resource we have is our children. Parents entrust teachers to do educate and enrich children’s lives and to do so in a caring, safe, and to do so in a professional manner. There have been situations where sometimes the role of a teacher is misrepresented or compromised. These situations are sometimes not real, or they are a result of lies or hear say, but at other times they turn out to be true. Our
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how it has changed. Next, the topic progresses to the personal computer, proprietary networks, and the BBS , precursors to the internet. Here we can find the origins and intent of the true computer hacker. More importantly even, will be the comparison of the proprietary networks, and the BBS in order to reveal how a generative system, like
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Unemployment From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For payments paid to unemployed people, see unemployment benefits. Unemployed men outside a soup kitchen in Depression-era Chicago, 1931. Unemployment (or joblessness) occurs when people are without work and actively seeking work.[1] The unemployment rate is a measure of the prevalence of unemployment and it is calculated as a percentage by dividing the number of unemployed individuals by all individuals currently
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