BG45 Posted July 12, 2011 Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 [quote name='arfink' timestamp='1310416360' post='2265868'] Computer forensics is very cool and all, but without a degree in mathematics and/or computer science you'll never get anywhere with that. Modern-day encryption for hard drives is easy to get and surpasses 256bit level encryption in most cases. Even a specially designed CUDA machine at the cost of over a million bucks would take 25 years to crack the basic encryption that ships with my OS. Sure, it's Linux, but in 10 years everyone will have it. Without a leap in supercomputer power that can exceed consumer machines by a factor of at least 20 orders of magnitude or the outright banning of general use computing devices the authorities will never be able to keep up. Thanks for letting me derail you for a bit. And fyi, I'm looking at the possibility of going into information security. Or possibly mechanical engineering, we shall see. [/quote] Not a problem on derailment! And even with a dedicated degree in Computer Security (you could double major with Computer Science at my last school for 4 more courses) it's hard to get a job in a field that uses it without knowing the right people. The minor was good for what it was good for; looking good to get me into this program, even if it didn't help elsewhere. It was fun too, with guys from the Computer Crimes section of the White Collar Crime Center teaching a lot of the classes. On the note of encryption, so true. During the first Gulf War with Iraq, Saddam's phone had higher encryption by far than anything between World War Two and a little beyond the Vietnam War. [quote name='Lisa' timestamp='1310416488' post='2265869'] Dude. That was a little dream-crushing. And I'm not even the one getting his degree. On the other hand, you do sound quite smart and I know nothing about it, so I'll shut up now. [/quote] We're not going to let him work in Advising. Trust me, people don't react well when you crush their dreams. "I'm going to be an FBI profiler!" "Actually there aren't many in the FBI, you see more on the crime drama about them than actually exist; average entry age to the FBI is 32 years old. What are you going to do for about a decade to make yourself more profitable as a hire?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted July 12, 2011 Share Posted July 12, 2011 Pay day loan companies actually harm the readiness of the military. If you have too much debt, the military won't send you overseas because being deeply in debt is a security issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG45 Posted July 12, 2011 Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 [quote name='CatherineM' timestamp='1310438356' post='2266147'] Pay day loan companies actually harm the readiness of the military. If you have too much debt, the military won't send you overseas because being deeply in debt is a security issue. [/quote] Makes sense, I remember when one of the Bureau of Prisons facilities approached my last school to encourage people to apply. They could never get enough applicants who weren't drowning in debt and would be a security risk to hire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG45 Posted July 12, 2011 Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 Mesner (2011) Topic: Payday Loans 1) Predatory lending practices focus almost exclusively on the poverty stricken 2) Loans can almost not be repaid within a year Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG45 Posted July 12, 2011 Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 Leon (2011) Topic: Sex Offenders 1) Plea deals can place high risk offenders into a lower risk category under the Adam Walsh Act. By pleaing down a sexual assault and murder to a lesser charge, it is capable to go in the federal registry as a Teir One: Low Risk offender than a Tier Three: High Risk offender.Levenson et al. (2010) Topic: Sex Offenders 1) Whether a sex offender fails to register has no effect on recidivism rates.Harris et al. (2010) Topic: Sex Offenders 1) Public attitude towards sex offenders is driven primarily by a media created mythos that creates an atmosphere of fear and disinformation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG45 Posted July 12, 2011 Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 Levenson (2011) Topic: Sex Offenders 1) Sex offender recidivism is lower than the average criminal recidivism rate 2) Current laws primarily punish sex offenders for crimes they might commit, instead of those that they did commit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG45 Posted July 12, 2011 Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 Burchfield (2011) Topic: Sex Offenders 1) No assumption in Sex Offender Registration and Notification residency restrictions is backed by actual empirical evidence. 2) Anecdotes of sex offender colonies due to the effects of SORN residency restrictions; in one city they live exclusively under a bridge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG45 Posted July 12, 2011 Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 Barnes (2011) Topic: Sex Offenders 1) Wants a moratorium on residency restrictions after a Minnesota study found that they had no impact on recidivism Socia (2011) Topic: Sex Offenders 1) Residency restrictions in upstate New York do not help rehabilitate sex offenders, nor do they enhance public safety. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG45 Posted July 12, 2011 Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 Tewksbury (2011) Topic: Sex Offenders 1) Sex offenders forced by SORN into poor or rural communities. 2) Not all victims are children, which is what residency restrictions address exclusively. Zgoba (2011) Topic: Sex Offenders 1) Every offender still has access to public transit that can allow them to bypass residency restrictions 2) Residency restrictions are ineffective; most sexual offenders who recidivate use public transit to go to other areas than their neighborhoods to commit the crimes. 3) 700,000 registered sex offenders are in the United States; 100,000 failed to register or have otherwise gone missing from official records Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG45 Posted July 12, 2011 Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 Terry (2011) (Not Tonry) Topic: Sex Offenders 1) Adam Walsh Act provides for: 1a) Juveniles can be listed as sex offenders for life in the new federal registry 1b) Eliminates all mitigating circumstances 1c) Failure to register is now a federal offense Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG45 Posted July 12, 2011 Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 Sample (2011) Topic: Sex Offenders 1) Little evidence that sex offender registration and notification policies reduce recidivism rates 2) Symbolic laws are rarely repealed (e.g. Megan's Law, Adam's Law, soon according to the media in several states Caylee's Law). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG45 Posted July 12, 2011 Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 Bandy (2011) Topic: Sex Offenders 1) Sex offenders concentrated in disadvantaged neighborhoods thanks to SORN residency restrictions. 2) Disclosing offender information has no measurable impact on people's self protection except for how people protect children; most sex offenders do not target children. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG45 Posted July 12, 2011 Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 Doob & Zimring (2011) Topic: Decarceration 1) Imprisonment in the past went down with: 1a) More probation 1b) Parole, which has been done away with in the federal system and many states 2) Challenges now that face a lessoning of mass imprisonment: 2a) State finances 2b) Visibility of penal policy 2c) Scale of imprisonment 2d) Beliefs of the efficacy of imprisonment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG45 Posted July 12, 2011 Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 Liptak (2011) Topic: Prison Overcrowding 1) Supreme Court of the United States rules that California prison overcrowding is still in violation of the 8th Amendment against cruel and unusual punishment 2) Orders a 30k reduction at least in prison population 3) Remember that the correctional officer's union is one of the most powerful lobbying groups in CA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BG45 Posted July 12, 2011 Author Share Posted July 12, 2011 Bahrampour (2011) Topic: Immigration 1) Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has a secure communities program 2) Arrests are run against an immigration database Guillen (2011) Topic: Decarceration 1) Ohio to send low level fellons to prison alternatives Williams (2011) 1) California spends $184 million a year on the death penalty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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