Cyber Stalking Is An Actionable Crime

In Congress right now “the Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act” is being debated upon. If the bill was passed it would “...make bullying through an electronic means a federal crime.”(Warnke 26). If the bill is passed different charges upon the bully may be applied depending on how severe the bullying

Imprisonment as a last resort; that is the usual punishment should be a fine or community service, since imprisonment normally has detrimental effects;

Many of the extradition treaties which has been signed by the U.S requires that the offense should be a crime in the U.S as well as the country making the request. In U.S requests for extradition are seen by the state department and the justice department. The limitations to extradition are as follows:-

Whoever transmits in interstate or foreign commerce any communication containing any threat to kidnap any person or any threat to injure the person of another, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both. (2)

costly affair as the crime may be very well hidden or involve convoluted paper-trails. The

Cyberharassment. Cyberharassment differs from cyberstalking in that it may generally be defined as not involving a credible threat. Cyberharassment usually pertains to threatening or harassing email messages, instant messages, or to blog entries or websites dedicated solely to tormenting an individual. Some states approach cyberharrassment by including language addressing electronic communications in general harassment statutes, while others have created stand-alone cyberharassment statutes.

Every day, millions of people use social media to either converse with their peers or to post pictures. There has been much discussion on whether or not individuals should be prosecuted for rude statements made on social media. Individuals should not be prosecuted for derogative statements made on social media. Although some may say that prosecuting cyberbullies for statements made on social media is beneficial, it would have many negative consequences. Prosecuting individuals for statements made on the internet would discourage personal responsibility, be a violation of the first amendment, and squander tax payers' money.

Failure to comply with the law or any of LOTSA’s policies can have severe consequences for

Now, Missouri Law considers Crimes Against Persons to be serious and describes different levels and categories of Kidnapping offenses. For this papers’ purposes, we shall limit the discussion of the three elements of crime to Kidnapping in the First Degree. The first element is twofold, involving an unlawful and unwilling transportation or confinement of an individual, the

Is there a crime shown? What type of crime (from Module 6) would it be? Why?

The code reads, if any person obtains, by any false pretense or token, from any person, with intent to defraud, money, a gift certificate or other property that may be the subject of theft, he/she shall be deemed guilty of larceny thereof; or if he/she obtain, by any false pretense or token, with such intent, the signature of any person to a writing, the false making whereof would be a forgery, he/she shall be guilty of a class 4 felony.

Is there a crime shown? What type of crime (from Module 6) would it be? Why?

Reuters reviewed 185 arms trafficking convictions that took place between 2005 and 2013. In comparison, the average sentence for a convicted bank robber is over 5 years. The review found that that there is a difference in the type of punishment handed out between companies that violated arms embargoes versus individuals. Generally, companies who violate arms embargoes typically pay fines as high as millions of dollars. When it was an individual who sold the arms, the person is generally criminally prosecuted and face jail

4. How the inspector may react to the defenselessness of material misquotes because of extortion.

Mendoza then reached the borrower and told him about the investigation which was taking place and offered him to get it settled in return of 25000 USD.Borrower agreed and then reached FBI to complain about Mendoza. FBI asked the borrower to continue with the transactions; hence the borrower kept Mendoza involved by negotiating the price and then settled for 1000 USD. Borrower paid 5000 in one instance and in the send slot was arrested under the offence of bribing and tipping