And most people won’t even know their identity’s been stolen until it’s too late and they become a victim to identity theft. Identity thieves can cause a lot of harm to their victims, such as stealing their personal information; several negative effects identity theft has on its victims are using your identity for criminal activities, financial loss, and it can even put people in physical danger. The most important effect identity theft causes is that criminals can use your identity to commit crimes. Such as drug smuggling or crossing state lines they can commit fraud to gain government benefits. And by using their identity to commit these crimes can seriously damage someone’s reputation.
Desmond LeSure Professor Bolton ENGL 1020 19 April 2012 “Is the Three-Strikes Law fair and ethical?” There are individuals who were known as habitual criminals who constantly repeated the cycle of committing a crime, getting arrested, and eventually getting released. In 1993, Americans noticed that this was very costly to the public because the process of arresting and trying these criminals was expensive. American tax payers were beginning to become concerned with this issue and wanted something to be done about habitual offenders. Society is pushing the issue that it was more logical to keep repeat criminals in jail and not release them to commit more crimes. Politicians listened to society and executed a law that would put an end to
White collar crimes and Ponzi schemes seem to be happening more often than not in today’s business world. Our text describes White Collar Crimes as a violation committed by individuals and corporations of fraud, bribery, theft and conspiracy to commit (Melvin, S. P. Z Pg. 555(2011) and Ponzi as a fraudulent investment to make investors or profit holders to pay for their own return on their initial investment. Much like they think they are making money on a product that is being sold to customers, clients and consumers but actually, the people who put in initial investment money is just getting back the same thing they put in or other investors are paying for other investors shares and no one is making any profit. However, since the Sabine-Oxley Act came into play in the early 2000’s investors and shareholders have been protected by these types of schemes and avocations.
Customs officers are expected to do their job and put a stop to the drug trafficking but the temptation of making some extra money may be extremely strong. Money is the root of all evil and a lot of people are very selfish. For an example, they know the effects drugs have on a society as a whole but if the price is high enough, they may turn their head and allow the drugs to be brought in. Not only is this wrong, it is damaging to everyone. “It is believed that the loss of the drug trafficking industry in Mexico would cause that country’s economy to shrink by over 63 percent” (DrugAbuse.net, (2012), para.
Dillard’s can’t afford any negative publicity regarding such issues. Dillard’s has to be aware of the potential devastation of laws suite involving discrimination of any type. There should be a training program set up for employees in order to educate and avoid potential litigation. Foreign trade can be a very risky business. Among all the risks involved with international trade, the political ones are more difficult to measure.
Most probably, their management team has not been fulfilling the factors to succeed in a business, or they do those factors, but not with full potential. It is possible that the corporation has a hard time searching for diamonds that can cause a high price of using the equipment, but a return that can not attain the cost of searching for it. Eventually, the corporation loses money, and then most likely the stock will go down. In additional, the corporation would require a major effort to make a comeback, and gaining investor’s trust. The corporation could be having difficulty to persuade investors to buy shares of their stock, or they have internal problems that have not been solve by the company.
When you put politics and offenses together it could have several negative effects on our country and its’ people. * When people involved with offenses become involved with people who make laws and policies which our country lives by the representatives of the people in order to prohibit being symbolizing the people, this makes them corrupt. When a policy maker becomes corrupt, our system and what it all stands for fails. Corruption in political within our system is just one issue that organized crime can make. * Describe the legal limitations associated with combating organized crime, including a * * critique of major federal laws and strategies that support this effort.
Another risk that the firm faces is legal. Just like employees can file lawsuits against the company other stakeholder groups such as suppliers and customers can also take legal action against the company. The unionization of employees is a risk that can affect the employee relations of the company. A union can ask for exorbitant pay raises which could force Walmart to raise its payroll expenses which would lower the profitability of the firm. A union also has the power to shut down the operations of the firm if the employees go on
In the wake of the current financial aid scandal some pretty serious accusations and findings have been released to the public’s attention. This scandal is like many we see today filled with lies and deception. This though is not my moral argument. As the scandal continues to unfold, implementations are being made in order to reduce corruption and bring back structure to the system. The question of whether or not to get rid of the “preferred lender” list is the problem.
Illegal Immigration Making or Breaking Elections In the last decade, illegal immigration has become a national concern as it continues to nuisance our economy, breach social problems and risk our country’s security. Aside from these crucial qualms that loom above our governments platform, there is a hidden consequence of our permeable borders that goes unnoticed. The outcomes of our country’s crucial elections are falsifier. Some illegal aliens have eagerly participated in voter fraud which misrepresents our democracy; but others that merely occupy a space within our borders, affect apportionment and electoral votes only by their presence in the United States. Illegal immigration has become a controversial issue between politicians and