By accepting cards, federal entities realise benefits, including more satisfied customers, fewer bad checks and cash thefts, and improved operation...

The Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 ("CARD Act" or "the Act") changed the landscape of the credit card market....

Credit rating agencies (CRAs) are expected to provide investors with an informed and unbiased view on securities' debt risk; the risk that issuers ...

This book discusses the three amendments that the SEC Commission is proposing that would impose additional requirements on nationally recognised st...

This book presents the modelling possibilities of neural networks on a complex real-world problem, i.e. credit rating process modelling. Current ap...

This book examines the Federal Trade Commissions' (FTCs) study on the accuracy and completeness of consumer credit reports. The FTC contracted a re...

The existing credit reporting system does not work for consumers. Too frequently, consumers struggle to access their credit reports, and when they ...

A credit score is a numerical summary of a consumer's apparent creditworthiness, based on the consumer's credit report, and reflects the relative l...

Section 215 of the FACT Act (FACTA)1 requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC or the Commission) and the Federal Reserve Board (FRB), in consulta...

In the first 200 years of New Orleans history, the Crescent City has earned a reputation for sin, temptation, intrigue, lawlessness, ritual-magic, ...

Montaigne Medal Finalist (Eric Hoffer Awards) The stories in Cretacea and Other Stories from the Badlands mostly take place in hot weather, where ...

Enjoyed since Sir John Suckling invented this popular card game in the early 1600s, cribbage is examined here in full-color photos and engaging tex...

One night, Agatha Winter's phone rings. Jasmine, her 13-year-old sister, has run away from home and needs to be picked up at the bus terminal. It's...

Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction. Individual human societies may each ...

In this book, the authors discuss crime issues from an international perspective, with a focus on socio-economic factors and psychological implicat...

In this book, Chapter One begins with a discussion on the use of dogs in the courtroom. Chapter Two explores the research on the criminal narrative...

Scandinavian popular novels and films have seen an efflorescence in the last thirty years. In "Crime and Fantasy in Scandinavia", Andrew Nestingen ...

Forfeiture has long been an effective law enforcement tool. Congress and state legislatures have authorised its use for over two hundred years. Eve...

Although organised crime has been the neglected dimension of the conflict in Iraq, both criminal enterprises and criminal activities have had a pro...

This book presents and discusses information in the study of criminal justice and law enforcement. Topics discussed include capital punishment; juv...

While the link between crime and schizophrenia has been noted for almost a century, it is only recently that research has provided convincing, broa...

Why do we need to focus on crime and violence prevention in children, adolescents and young adults? Because it is vital to start when offending beh...

Fascinating accounts of criminal and police life in major centres of the Maritimes. These are very human narratives of what policing meant in diffe...

"Crime at Mayerling" deals with two of the most sensational crimes committed during the past century. Although separated in time by a hundred years...

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of crime rates, types and hot spots. Topics discussed include a forensic and social...

This is a collection of true Australian crime stories ranging from bushrangers such as Ned Kelly and Mad Dan Morgan through to serial killers, frau...

This is a collection of true Australian crime stories ranging from bushrangers such as Ned Kelly and Mad Dan Morgan through to serial killers, frau...

Legal reform in the name of victims of crime began to appear in state and federal law in the 1960's. It can be seen in victim restitution and compe...

Within the United States Code, is a statutory bill of rights for victims of crimes committed in violation of federal law or the laws of the Distric...

In 2011, U.S. households experienced about 3,394,700 burglary victimisations. Persons age 12 or older who had disabilities experienced 1.3 million ...

The Crimea attracts a great deal of interest. The area is of great emotional value to Moscow. How this came about history teaches us from 1941 up t...

With a wide variety of soil and climatic conditions as well as types of landscape in its territory, the Crimean Peninsula has a very long history o...

This book is a broad comprehensive photographic essay regarding surviving artefacts of the Crimean War, fought 150 years ago between Russia and the...