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    Identity theft is when an individual conjure up image from using another person background and began to imitate their existence. When this occurs the thief pretends to be another person and fools others into believing him. Identity theft is a white-collar crime that in many circumstances have no geographic boundaries, thus the criminal activity become a cross jurisdiction issue between different law enforcement agencies. When it comes to identity theft crimes law enforcement agents have a hard…

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    Identity theft is any unauthorized use of someone else’s personal identity to fraudulently obtain money, goods, or services; to prevent the payment of debt; or to avoid criminal prosecution. In 1998, under the authority of the Identity Theft and Assumption Deterrence Act, identity theft became a federal crime with prescribed prison sentences for using identity theft to commit crimes. In addition, increased penalties apply for those who exceed, misuse, or abuse privileged access to personal…

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    Identity Fraud The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate and explain one of the various White-Collar crimes known as identity fraud. Another purpose of this paper is to inform about identity fraud and how many people are affected by it and also to notify the reader on how to prevent identity fraud. Identity fraud can be defined as a crime where an individual stole someone else’s personal information like a credit card and also use it to buy merchandises charging that specific credit card.…

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    George Sand’s Indiana and Mikhail Lermontov’s A Hero of Our Time interrogate the conflict between individual and collective identity in the nineteenth century through presenting the individual as a site of ambiguity and hybridity that disrupts the supposed coherence and homogeneity of the collective identities cultivated by national and colonial power relations. Collective identity attempts to bound and border individuals within binary categories, presenting groups defined by national, ethnic,…

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    Gender identity creates a distinction in order to create a sort of understanding between the “inherently untidy experiences” of sex (2549). In other words, a recognizable and common western boy is a boy because he commonly doesn’t wear skirts. Butler identifies…

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    Gender identity is defined as a personal conception of oneself as male or female. This concept is intimately related to the concept of gender roles, which is defined as the outward manifestations of personality that reflect their gender identity. For a lot of people, the terms “gender” and “sex” are used interchangeably, but that is incorrect. This idea has become so common in societies that are hardly questioned. When we are born we are assigned a sex. For many people that is not a problem…

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    2. Assess how you would investigate identity theft. Unit 3. Having personal information on one’s identity stolen for fraudulent purposes, known as identity theft, is one of the fastest growing crimes in the United States. The criminals that conduct this type of crime are also the most difficult to apprehend and incarcerate because they usually never make personal contact with the victims. Everyday activities such as selling an old computer, filling the car up with gas, going out to eat, or…

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    Medical Identity Theft Out of all the places we should feel our identities to be most secure, the individualized, private rooms where we discuss our latest health concerns should be one of them. Unfortunately for some, that is not always the case. Although identity theft is more popularly known as the act of an individual taking one’s personal information for financial gain, it can also occur within the healthcare field (American Optometric Association). Not only do individuals fall victim to…

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    Gender Identity Disorder In today’s society, there are very clear-cut pictures of how males and females should act. Gender roles are certain norms associated with sex that involve social and behavioral aspects. As young children, we do not necessarily understand those stereotypes or gender roles (Bradley and Zucker, 3). Weather they are enforced by the parents or not. Many young children go through “phases” or periods of time in which they like to act on tendencies of the opposite sex. However…

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    SUNY schools rather than private schools. Does all of this affect my ideologies? My upbringing and how I identify with the world, both have been taught to me, and also have been forced upon me by different factors. Each of these elements of my identity has a binary opposite related to them. If were not a female I would be a male. If I were not heterosexual I would be queer, or if I were not cisgendered I would be transgendered. If I were not white, I would be…

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