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Tuesday, 12/4 Agenda
Finish Doing DrugsCyber-Crime
Terrorism Crimes of the Powerful
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Illicit Drug use and other Crime
• Strong correlation (.5-.7) between regular drug use and crime
• Offenders with substance abuse problems commit a high percent of some crimes
• 75% of robberies in one study
• Two-thirds of those jailed test positive for illicit drugs
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Relationships Between Drugs and Crime
• Drug-defined offenses– Possession and Sales
• Drug-related offenses– Drug induced rage assault – Robbery to feed drug habit
• Drug-using lifestyle– Crimes relevant to “lifestyle” – Not cause-effect
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The “Gateway” issue
• Is weed a “gateway” drug for harder drugs?• Is cigarette smoking a gateway to weed?• Gateway implies causality– The use of some drug (nicotine, weed) causes use
of harder drugs independent of other factors such as peer group, low self-control, lifestyle…
– Is it really the weed that causes people to try crack cocaine or heroin? • Danger of “DARE” sorts of messages
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Drug Control Strategies
• “War on Drugs” = $600 Billion over past 25 years– Source Control– Interdiction– Punishment (Deterrence) – Drug Testing
• Different Approaches– Drug Education (non-D.A.R.E.)– Drug Treatment (California’s Prop 36)– Public Health-Harm Reduction Models
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Drug Legalization?
• Pro?– Reduce crime by eliminating “drug-defined crimes”
• Reduce Prison Costs
– Reduce violence generated by black market– Reduce police corruption (?)
• Con?– Increased drug use and social costs
• Before-After Dorito test
– Moral costs
• Practical Problems with Legalization– Which drugs? Who sells? Minors?
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Drug Treatment
• As with criminal rehabilitation programs, cognitive behavioral programs have a track record of success– Cognitive = skill and restructuring
• The effect of Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous is largely unknown– Very resistant to academic research
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Drug Courts
• Started in 1989 in Dade County Florida as a reaction to crowded jails/court dockets– Spread like wildfire thereafter
• Key ingredients– Team approach – Judicial involvement in supervision (court reviews)– Strong treatment component– Quick processing
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Drug Court II
• Most research has been favorable– Reductions in drug use and other criminal activity
• South St. Louis County (Duluth) MN drug court– Reviewed by one of the best bow hunting
criminologists in the country • Significant reductions in felony offending vs. a
comparison group of people arrested for drug felonies prior to the existence of drug court
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UMD: Percent Reporting Nonmedical Drug Use, by Type of Drug, Past 12 Months
Prescription sleeping med.
Prescription sedative
Other illicit drug (besides pot)
Prescription pain med.
Prescription stimulant
Any prescription drug
Marijuana
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50%
5.9%
6.2%
10.4%
16.1%
24.2%
35.1%
49.5%
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Logistic Regression Results(across Models)
IndependentVariable
Dependent Variable
Prescription Stimulantsb
(SE)[Odds Ratio]
Marijuanab
(SE)[Odds Ratio]
Other Prescription Drugsb
(SE)[Odds Ratio]
Other Illicit Drugs
b(SE)
[Odds Ratio]
Low self-control .044**(.018)
[1.045]
.043***(.016)
[1.044]
.056***(.019)
[1.058]
Moral beliefs -.069**(.028)[.933]
-.089***(.027)[.915]
-.105***(.036)[.901]
Deviant Peers .049*(.028)
[1.051]
Grade point average
-.584**(.241).558]
-.471**(.222).[625]
Importance of academic work
.375*(.204)
[1.455]
***p < .01; **p < .05; *p < .10
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Cyber-Crime
• Crime that occurs over the internet using a computer– Cyber markets– Fraud– Development of criminal communities
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Cyber-Markets
• Piracy– Software, Music, Movies, Television Broadcasts, Books…
• Requires minimal skill, but does entail some risks (viruses, lawsuits, etc.)
• Estimates vary, but roughly 1/3 of Americans report pirating• Higher estimates among youth, especially COLLEGE KIDS!
– UMD STUDENTS = 62% pirated in past year, 20% did so “frequently”
• Music and video piracy appears to be declining…why?
• Beyond pirating—use of legitimate (eBay, Craig's list) and illegitimate sites to engage in crime – Sell stolen goods, trade in illicit drugs/sex
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Cyber pornography market• Defining “pornography” has always been
problematic• Other major issues– Access by Minors– Unwanted solicitation– Child pornography
• Federal legislation has had limited success…– Communications Decency act of 1996– Child Online Protection Act (COPA) of 1998– Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) of 2000
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Cyber Fraud
• Traditional Fraud Scams– A friend from Nigeria wished to transfer a million
dollars into your account• Phishing and Pharming scams– Your Ebay account has been compromised!
• Hacking• Major concern with many of these techniques is
identity theft– Use your information to take out loans, get credit cards,
etc.
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Identity Theft
• The unlawful use of another person’s identifying information – Use of name, DOB, social security number, credit
card number…to commit fraud or other crimes– Internet and information age has made this much
easier
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Combating Identity Theft
• State Legislation– “Freeze laws” – stops access to credit reports– Laws to redact fraudulent transactions from credit
reports– Disclosure laws—if your info has been compromised
• New emphasis on information privacy• Risk minimization– Guard SS# and other private info, look at credit reports,
shred sensitive paper, don’t open suspicious email…
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Cybercrime Communities
• Anonymity of cyberspace– Deviant Subcultures have arena to share
information and engage in crime• Child Pornography• Drug Distribution
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Terrorism
• Definitions Vary Widely – The use of violence to influence the political,
social, or religious attitudes and/or behaviors of others
– Premeditated, politically motivated violence, designed to spread fear and perpetrated against civilians
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“START” DATA
• National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Response to Terrorism– University of Maryland
• Convergence of several databases + new additions from media
– What qualifies:• Intend to coerce/intimidate/convey message beyond immediate
victims• Aimed at attaining political/social/religious goal • Context outside of legitimate warfare
– Almost 100,000 terrorist incidents between 1970 and 2010 • 43,000 bombings, 14,000 assassinations, and 4,700 kidnappingsInteractive Chart
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Thinking about Terrorism
• Political/Secular vs. Religious• Organization and Support• Domestic Terrorism• Response to Terrorism
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Political vs. Secular
• Motivations of terrorists – Those with political agenda may be more selective
regarding civilian casualties • Logic = the non-believers are all enemies
• HOWEVER, it is sometimes difficult to separate the religious from the secular
• Osama Bin Laden and the 9/11 attacks had both a religious and political/secular component
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Terrorist “Cells”
• Cell Structure– Chain of command at the top (hierarchy), but
operation in smaller, tightly kit “cells”• Cells independent of each other, somewhat
autonomous • Cells have limited or no contact with leaders of terror
group
– Long history of use• Irish Republican Army
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Types of Terrorism
• Domestic terrorism – U.S.• Left Wing (Weathermen, Eco-Terrorism)• Right Wing (Militias, Timothy McVeigh)
• State terrorism– Against domestic or foreign “enemies” • German atrocities against Jews circa WWII • Assassination of foreign leaders
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Terrorism and the Media
• Scholars have pointed out that there is a natural match – Terrorists depend on media• Use event to coerce larger audience: high visibility
targets, graphic acts, pre-event contact with media outlets, post-event videos
– Media as a natural venue for terrorism• Dramatic, violent, visual, timely (vs. wars which are
protracted, highly complex…) • HIGH RATINGS
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Response to Terrorism
• Difficult balance – Aggressive response detection, deterrence – Concern civil rights, overreaching
• Examples– USA Patriot Act • Warrantless search and seizures, wiretapping, etc.
– Global War on Terror • Interrogation techniques, use of drones to assassinate,
etc.
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Crimes of the Powerful
• Organized Crime• White Collar Crime – Occupational Crime– Corporate Crime
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Organized Crime
• Criminal activity committed by groups with some manner of formalized structure– Primary goal is typically money and power
• Some ambiguity here– Street gangs versus drug cartels– Terrorist groups
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Just how organized is it?
• The Alien Conspiracy Model (foreign criminals)– Highly organized and centralized– Sicilian “Mafia” (La Cosa Nostra) as poster child
• Mafia code (loyalty, respect, discipline), secret oaths, traditions, etc
• Local, ethnic group model– Strong family ties and obligations related to kinship and
ethnicity• Distrust of outsiders and government • Capacity for organization and cooperation among groups • Ability to cultivate good will of local residents
– Influence limited to cities/geographical areas
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Crimes of the organized
• Illegal Industries– Gambling, narcotics distribution, loan sharking, extortion,
insurance scams, fencing… – Violence associated with enforcement
• Legitimate industry – Used to launder money + create monopolies + extort
• Restaurants/food, garbage disposal, garment manufacturing, labor unions, construction…
• Political– Bribery, fixing elections, coercing agents of criminal justice,
etc.
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The Mafia
• Mafia is often used as general term– Usually refers to Italian Americans (Sicilian)– La Cosa Nostra (“our thing” in Italian)
• Fodder for entertainment media (Sopranos, The Godfather, Goodfellas)
• Famous New York crime families (Gambino, Genovese)• Joseph Valachi testimony (1963) before the Senate
– The organization and crime families do exist, but the level of organization often exaggerated
– Does “stand apart” because of its pervasiveness, control over illegitimate markets, and penetration into legitimate industry
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Law Enforcement Methods
• Headhunting– Target heads of organized crime families, use
informants + surveillance to indict – Successful?
• Fairly successful at knocking off “heads” but still organized crime
• Organized Crime Control Act (1970)– Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations
(RICO) Statutes – Prosecutor ability to provide witness protection
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White Collar Crime
• Edwin Sutherland– “A crime committed by a person of respectability and
high social status in the course of his occupation”• Urged criminologists to focus on crimes of the upper class,
as opposed to street crime (still an issue today)• What is “counted” counts
– Sutherland’s study of 70 largest corporations: official records revealed over 980 law violations (fraud, bribery, antitrust)» Much “War Profiteering”
• A BIT better with NIBRS data, but nowhere near as good as “street crime” data
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More recent typology of WCC
• Occupational Crime– Crimes committed by individuals in the course of their
occupation for personal gain• Theft/embezzlement, medical fraud by physicians, therapist having
sex with client…
• Corporate or Organizational Crime – Crimes committed by corporations (and their executives)
for the benefit of the corporation• Organizations include small business and blue collar endeavors
(auto repair shops)
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Occupational Crimes
• Employee embezzlement and pilferage – Collective embezzlement• Savings and Loans crime wave in the 1980s (land flips)
• Professional Fraud– Lawyers, Physicians • How many hours to bill clients• Unnecessary procedures and surgeries,
Medicaid/Medicare fraud
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Organizational Crime
• Many organizational crimes are “blue collar” – Auto repair, appliance repair • 20/20 and 60 minutes stings
– Fraudulent businesses (roofing, blacktop) – Small businesses
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Corporate Crime
• Fraud, Cheating, Corruption– The Enron Scandal
• Not alone—the most egregious of the 1990s/2000s era– Halliburton, WorldCom, Rite Aid, Adelphia…
• Enron = cooking books to artificially inflate the value of their stocks (overstate earnings, hide losses), manipulation of California’s energy market to drive up costs– Accounting firm (Arthur Anderson) complicit the fraud – 31 people indicted (Jeff Skilling, Ken Lay)
– The “Great Recession”? • Housing bubble (mortgage industry) + mortgage backed sec
urities + bailout…
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Corporate Crime II
• Other financial– Price Fixing / Collusion (gas prices)– False advertising (bait and switch)
• Corporate Violence– Unsafe work conditions (miners, asbestos)– Unsafe products (contaminated food)• FORD PINTO CASE • PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY (Dalkon Shield)
– Pollution
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Cost of WCC
• Cost MUCH higher than street crime– $17 billion vs. roughly $400 billion– 16,000 homicides vs. 100,000 unnecessary deaths
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What causes WCC?
• Lenience?– Double standard embedded in culture—not “real”
criminals• Weak/absent regulations –rely on “ethics” and self-regulation• Difficulty in proving crime (complex, good lawyers, lack
resources to prosecute)– SEC over 10 years, 600 cases referred for prosecution, and less than
1/3 resulted in convictions with less than 1/6 resulting in jail or prison time
• Weak punishment civil settlements with no admission of wrongdoing– Fines often less than 1% of corporate PROFITS for a year
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Irony
• Conservatives cry out for punishment for street crimes, but believe that much corporate “crime” can be cured by self-regulation
• Liberals decry harsh punishment, especially for non-violent offenders, but believe that WCC could be reduced greatly through prison time– Corporations more “rational” than individuals?
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Psycho Corporations
• Psychopaths:– Insensitive, Manipulative, Superficial charm,
Above-average intelligence, Absence of psychotic symptoms, Absence of anxiety, Lack of remorse, Failure to learn from experience, Egocentric, Lack of emotional depth
– Corporations are not supposed to be compassionate or think of long-term consequences