Describe the information stolen by identity thieves. What are some of the difficulties faced by victims of this crime?

What will be an ideal response?


Personal information stolen by identity thieves includes first, middle, and last names; family members and employers; phone, physical addresses, e-mail addresses, websites; birthday, medical information, physical description, educational records; social security, driver's license, passport numbers; and bank, credit card, frequent fliers, and investment accounts. The consequences of wrongful access to personal information can be devastating, and they go beyond the money victims lose to identify thieves. The more than 9 million annual identity theft victims spend an average of 600 hours over two to four years and $1,400 to clear their names (V. Johnson 2005, 257, n. 7). Victims may also lose job opportunities; be refused loans, education, housing, or cars; and be arrested for crimes they didn't commit (FDA 2005). In extreme cases, victims are blackmailed or stalked or even murdered.

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The exfiltration stage of the kill chain involves:

A) weaponizing an attack payload and delivering it to the target B) downloading tools and moving laterally from the target network to other hosts C) compromising the host machine and installing malware D) reading company websites and identifying social network participation of likely targets

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What is commercial robbery?

What will be an ideal response?

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Which of the following statements regarding the criminological problem is true?

a. restorative practices are based on empirical evidence of what works to reduce recidivism b. restorative justice does not believe the community is important in offering supportive relationships with offenders c. advocates of restorative justice do not believe in individual differences d. restorative justice is built on one theory

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The graph above represents the supply and demand for labor in a purely competitive market. The price of labor that an individual firm in this market would take as given is:


A. 0a
B. 0c
C. Higher than 0a
D. Higher than 0c

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