Addressing Street Prostitution
Street Prostitution, 2nd Edition focuses on the problem of female street prostitutes and provides practitioners with information regarding prostitutes, their clients, and pimps and panderers. It also explains the transaction and the environment associated with the problem, and describes links between prostitution and drugs.
Collaborating Toward Successful Interoperable Communications
Law Enforcement Tech Guide for Communications Interoperability: A Guide for Interagency Communications Projects provides strategies, best practices, and recommendations for public safety agencies that are seeking to develop or are already engaged in interagency communications projects. It explores current and emerging technologies in voice and data communications and provides planning tools to help achieve interoperable communication initiatives.
Exploring Crime and Safety in Schools
Indicators of School Crime and Safety, 2006 presents data on crime and safety in schools from the perspectives of students, teachers, principals, and the general population. The annual report examines crime occurring in school as well as on the way to and from school.
Examining Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate Partner Violence examines fatal and nonfatal acts of violence committed by intimates—current or former spouses, girlfriends, or boyfriends—since the National Crime Victimization Survey was redesigned in 1993.
Surveying Criminal Victimization
Criminal Victimization in the United States—Statistical Tables presents 110 tables with detailed data on major variables measured by the National Crime Victimization Survey. Topics include theft and violent crimes, with data on victim and crime characteristics, victim-offender relationship, victims' perceptions of substance use by offenders and of offender characteristics, whether crimes were reported to the police and reasons why or why not, and police response time for reported crimes.
Preventing Identity Theft, The Nation's Fastest Growing Crime
On May 10, 2006, the President established the Identity Theft Task Force, which among other things considers steps agencies should take when responding to a data security breach that poses subsequent identity theft risk. According to a bulletin from the Bureau of Justice Statistics—Identity Theft, 2004—an estimated 2.6 million households were affected by identity theft during a 6-month period in 2004. The Identity Theft Resource Center defines identity theft as "a crime in which an imposter obtains key pieces of information such as Social Security and driver's license numbers and uses them for their own personal gain." Identity Theft is an evolving crime that has surfaced rapidly, and Weed and Seed community members should be aware of resources and prevention methods available to them.
- Free Annual Credit Reports from the three major credit reporting agencies—Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion. One free credit report per reporting agency may be requested annually. The site also offers tools to help monitor credit files and provides methods to guard against identity theft.
- The Federal Trade Commission offers a helpline that provides information and reports consumer complaints on a variety of business fraud. Information brochures on financial crimes—including telemarketing and identity theft—are also available in English and Spanish.
- AVOID Identity Theft: Deter, Detect, Defend provides information about identity theft, what to do if you think your identity has been stolen, and how to safeguard personal information.
- Tips on Preventing Identity Theft, from the National Crime Prevention Council, educates consumers about what they can do to prevent identity theft.
- The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention supports three programs that address the problems of online identity theft and young online users:
- i-Safe—A curriculum for kindergarten through grade 12 designed to educate students about all aspects of internet safety, for use by teachers in the classroom.
- NetSmartz—An online educational resource to help teach youth how to be safer both on- and offline, for use at home, at school, and in the community. Includes activities, games, Internet safety pledges, and real-life stories.
- Web Wise Kids—A program that educates parents about how to teach their children the dangers of inappropriate online usage, including the risk of identity theft, for use in either hands-on computer lab or lecture-demonstration format.
- i-Safe—A curriculum for kindergarten through grade 12 designed to educate students about all aspects of internet safety, for use by teachers in the classroom.
