Identity theft in today's world
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Identity theft in today's world
（Global crime and justice）
Praeger, c2012
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-201) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book accurately identifies the various forms of identity theft in simple, easy-to-understand terms, exposes exaggerated and erroneous information, and explains how everyone can take action to protect themselves.
Identity theft is a classic crime with a modern (and perhaps decidedly American) twist. The rise of technology over the past few decades-and its influence on the processes of modernization and globalization-has created many new opportunities for identity theft both locally and internationally. Moreover, this process has transformed the nature of identity from something largely personal to something almost purely financial. Although identity theft is not a global crime per se, it does pose a pervasive and universal threat that will need to be acknowledged and addressed by many nations throughout the world.
In this text, author Megan McNally examines the concept of identity theft in universal terms in order to understand what it is, how it is accomplished, and what the nations of the world can do-individually or collectively-to prevent it or respond to it.
Table of Contents
Series Foreword
Preface
Introduction
Part I: Identity Theft in a Rational World
1. The Identity Equation
2. The Identity Theft Equation
3. The Universal Script
Part II: Identity Theft in an Irrational Society
4. A Matter of Perspective
5. The Life and Times of IDT
6. Around the Beginning
7. Somewhere in the Middle
8. Just beneath the Surface
9. The End for Now
Part III: Life in Today's World
10. Don't Be a Victim
11. Don't Panic
Notes
References
Index
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