Bureau of Justice Statistics

The Bureau of Justice Statistics refers to the federal agency that is responsible for the administration, regulation, oversight, compilation, and also for the provision of criminal statistics that is compiled via specified research; the research carried out by the Bureau of Justice Statistics involves the findings that are furnished through different means, for instance the criminal investigation and the case analysis of the convicted felons, and also the rate by which a huge expanse of criminal activity usually take place.

Additionally, The Bureau of Justice Statistics is under the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice, which is the department of federal agency that is responsible of undertaking all manners of criminal activity that do exist on a national level, for instance those crimes that occur on both foreign as well as interstate levels; the Bureau of Justice Statistics also undertakes the analysis as well as the investigation of the statistics that are rendered by federal trials, as well as State trials

The Department of Justice is a federal agency that is within the Executive Branch of the government that is obliged with responsibility of supervision of all sub divisions, agencies, as well as department that exist under the United States Department of Justice. Among the most basic objectives of the Department of Justice is the regulation as well as the administration of legal activity, the statutory legislation, and the lawful behavior regarding the Federal government.

After visiting the Bureau of Justice Statistics website, a topic that interests me is identity theft cost. I managed to pull down it statistical data as follows.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) has a sober report that is new to finding identity theft cost of Americans being $10 billion more last year than all other property crimes that are measured by the National Crime Victimization Survey.

Identifying theft cost Americans $24.7 billion in 2012, losses for household burglary, motor vehicle theft together with property theft totaled only $14 billion.

This Bureau of Justice Statistics report measures direct as well as indirect losses that are tied to identifying theft. In direct losses, most of the $24.7 billion comprised of the money thieves got through misusing victim’s personal information and account information. Indirect losses constitute other costs that are associated with identity theft .for instance legal fees as well as bounced checks.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics last report on identity theft for the year of 2010, it measured only direct losses and it put them at $13.1 billion. Despite the fact that that report didn’t measure indirect losses, a research firm known as Javelin Strategy and Research also found that this year identity thefts are on the rise indeed.

The following are some main statistical data points from the BJS report:

85% of theft insistences involve fraudulent use of the existing accounts, instead of using somebody’s name in opening a new account.

Those people whose names were used in opening new accounts were likely to experience financial hardship, emotional distress, as well as problems in their relationships, than those whose existing accounts were tampered with.

50% of identity theft victims lost $100 and even more.

Those Americans in households and making $75,000 or even more were more likely to encounter identity theft than the lower-income households. 

Majority of victims spent a day or even hours in resolving the issue, identity theft can also be one drawn-out nightmare. For instance, a dramatic ID theft occurred after a man by the name David B. Dahlstrom lost his wallet in Utah in 1985. In the next 17 years, a German immigrant, Yorck A. Rogge masqueraded as Dahlstrom. In 2007, the real Dahlstrom was denied a credit card and also received an insurance claim regarding an accident he never knew about.

In recent years, identity thieves have started targeting smart phone users and also those people who use social media yet they are not cautious about that use (experts told Reuters in 2012)

Javelin Strategy & Research found that that year somebody whose information is currently revealed as part of an online data breach is 9 and 12 times more likely to have their identity stole.

Objective 3.1 of data collection; Students should be in a position to write reviews of literature that express findings from criminological research. Like for instance the way have reviewed literature from Javelin Strategy & Research

References

E. Ann Carson (2016) Bureau of Justice Statistics

Kelli B. Grant (2010) Identity Theft, Fraud Cost.