WK 6 ASSIGNMENT ************* DRAFT Thesis **********

Identity Theft

By

American Public University System, November 11, 2018

Charles Town, West Virginia

, Thesis Professor

Introduction

Identity theft can be regarded as the crime from which a person does an acquisition if another person’s personal information or even financial details. This is often accompanied with an evil intent of taking or in short assuming the personal identity of a different person through their own use. Such use may include executing various transactions or even making purchases using other people’s information or identity. Identity theft may regard fully be executed through diverse means across the whole world. Most cases of identity theft as mentioned above are mostly deliberate are done within identity criminals with an intent of conducting evil businesses in the name of the victimized persons. Besides, there are various illegal methods that are utilized in obtain personal identity of another individual through the identity theft (Ron, 2013). Most victims who fall under the culprits of identity theft merger from well off or upper-class family where the criminals may utilize the better wealth of their respective victims.

Identification and Operationalization

There are various and diverse ways in which the identification of the individual may be achieved as well as their identity operationalization. Generally, identity theft literally occurs when the unauthorized individual acquires your personal information through a personal identification means such as your name, address, social security number commonly abbreviated as SSN (Anna, 2013). Despite the presence of high rates of cases that relate with the identity theft, there have been counted number of information which is essentially known concerning the individuals who may indulge themselves in such a type of crime. This therefore implies that there is minimal data found by the authorities that may help analyze such identity theft criminal in the world. Nevertheless, such an information ought to be utilized efficiently in terminating these kinds of criminals in the world.

The variables concerned in this respective study include the data of people who have been suffering under the suffrage of identity theft throughout the world. Despite lack of enough evidence to literally and practically personalize such individuals, there is still hope that if the victims revealed their encounters with such people, their sources may significantly help in escalating the core potholes of these criminals hence sentencing them appropriately (Robert, 2016). The measurements of the statistics used to analyze these studies were obtained from a world perspective. The calibrations used to determine the victims of the identity theft were extracted from the realism perspective of the individual perspective.

Sampling Plan

The sampling plan of the study was acquired from the American population. Here, the study team interviewed various victims in the United States of America who had suffered the victimization of identity theft. The sampling plan could be based on the information released by the 2018 Identity Fraud. The identity theft according to this nutshell of the Identity Fraud enters the new era of complexity from Javelin Strategy & Research which was conducted in 2017. The research outlines that around 16.7 million individuals were declared victims of identity fraud. This record of population was higher than the previous record which was accounted in the year 2016. According to this population study, it is prevalent to conclude that these identity theft criminals engage themselves in complex identity fraud schemes which may be regraded to have optimal record figures of victims in their own wake within this respective field. This population figure may be numerically analyzed to be 30% of the United States consumers were identified out of data breach in last year showing an increase of 12% from 2016 (Simon, 2018).

Justification of Case Study

From above population study, it is evident that the identity theft has hit the attention of United States of America. This has emerged from the fact that this phenomenon has become a rampant computer crime in the United States of America. This has made this thematic issue to become an economic crisis. Through a statistical assessment which was recently executed, there are varied cases of individuals having fallen under the trap of identity theft. These have been essentially denoted from the recent reported cases of identity theft (Earl & Michael, 2014). Despite so many cases being filed, less concentration on the identity theft have been put on this respective issue across the world. This therefore exhibits the major reason why individuals are still becoming victims of the identity theft in day-to-day living.

Data Collection and Sources

The consumer sentinel network which has been maintained by the Federal Trade Commission. This secondary source generally keeps the trace of the consumer fraud as well as the identity theft grumbles that have been arising all over the world. The complaints highlighted in this consumer sentinel network generally get assorted by the federal, state as well as local law enforcement agencies as well as some of the private organization. Such secondary sources can be essentially utilized as the secondary collections within this perspective study of identity theft across the whole world (Herth, 2014). Cyber-crime agencies have also been used in exhibiting the secondary collection of information that is needed to exhibit the identity theft suffrage of the respective victims under question. These cybercrime organizations include McAfee as well as the center for strategic and international studies.

Summary of Analysis Procedures

As mentioned above the procedures consumed in analyzing this study were both primary as well as secondary depending on the terms utilized for identification of the required data. The secondary analysis was consumed from the above identity theft agencies that are used to analyze the extent of identity theft in the whole world. In addition, the primary information was also assessed in this respective survey. Here, the various victims of identity theft were accessed and questioned on their grievances concerning their respective personal experience with identity theft. Such an extraction of information helped boost the already acquired secondary information on the thematic issue hence emerging with the relevant and valid conclusion of the cases of identity theft (Heather, 2017).

Limitations of the Study and Bias Discussion

In this respective study, there are various shortcomings of the research study that were experienced in the overall research. Essentially, there were various limitations that were experienced concerning the design methodology which greatly influenced the interpretation of the perspective findings within this research study. Some of the quantitative research design shortcomings that were literally experienced include the fact that there was no statistical significance outcome from the rich people who had suffered under the victimization of the identity theft as they did not see a significant difference in leverage of their respective wealth from their own experience (John, 2014). Such shortcomings may have significantly the final conclusion of the research findings. Nevertheless, the findings arrived at should be utilized to mitigate some of these cases of identity theft.

References

Anna Davies (2013), Identity Theft, pp. 125.

Earl R. Babbie & Michael G. Maxfield (2014), Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology, pp. 84.

Heather Vescent & Nick Selby (2017), Cyber Attack Survival Manual, From Identity Theft to the Digital Apocalypse, pp. 562.

Heith Copes (2014), Advancing Qualitative Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice, pp. 200.

John W. Creswell (2014), Research Design, Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Method Approaches, pp. 225.

Robert M. Ryerson (2016), What’s the Deal with Identity Theft, pp. 263.

Ron Cantor (2013), Identity Theft, Taylor and Francis Group, pp. 102.

Simon Kadwilly-Kelly (2018), Identity Theft & Fraud, pp. 156.