Stealing and Holding Stolen Goods

Hot Products: understanding, anticipating and reducing demand for stolen goods

The Policing and Reducing Crime Unit (PRC Unit) was formed in 1998 as a result of the merger of the Police Research Group (PRG) and the Research and Statistics Directorate. The PRC Unit is now one part of the Research, Development and Statistics Directorate of the Home Office. The PRC Unit carries out and commissions research in the social and management sciences on policing and crime reduction...

handling stolen goods in iranian and english criminal law

handling stolen goods has been recognized as an independent offence in both iranian and english law. committing this offence, tacitly support those actions that are called theft. however, penal policy of iran’s legislator does not provide effective fighting against the handlers of stolen goods. in others words, comparing the two iranian and english legal system, make this issue clear that crimi...

Holding the Government to Account: the ‘stolen Wages’ Issue, Fiduciary Duty and Trust Law

[This article examines whether trust or fiduciary law provides potential ‘stolen wages’ plaintiffs with a strong basis for a claim over money in bank accounts that previous governments held on the plaintiffs’ behalf. It also considers the broader issue of whether governments owed a fiduciary duty flowing from their obligations under general ‘protective’ legislation to prevent such workers from ...

Targeting the markets for stolen goods – two targeted policing initiative projects

Botcoin: Monetizing Stolen Cycles

At the current stratospheric value of Bitcoin, miners with access to significant computational horsepower are literally printing money. For example, the first operator of a USD $1,500 custom ASIC mining platform claims to have recouped his investment in less than three weeks in early February 2013, and the value of a bitcoin has more than tripled since then. Not surprisingly, cybercriminals hav...