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Beyond Social Services

The website is to connect with the youths and to tell them about the delinquency among disadvantaged young people and their families and to move them beyond their problems. The website also want to develop young people who respect the law, value education and seek to become responsible persons.

Beyond Social Services also run a range of preventive, restorative and developmental programmes and services that are designed to fight delinquency among children and youths. They also believe that youth offending is the product of young people’s environment and not inherent in them. With appropriate support, young people from disadvantaged and troubled backgrounds can escape the cycle of poverty, violence and crime and be contributing members of our community.

National Addictions Management Services

The National Addictions Management Service (NAMS) was incorporated in Aug 2008. Located at the Institute of Mental Health (IMH), NAMS includes the Specialist Outpatient Clinic C (SOC C) as its outpatient arm, and the inpatient Serenity Centre, which provides residential detoxification and rehabilitation. NAMS treats problem gambling and other behavioural addictions (internet, gaming, etc), and substance addictions (alcohol and drugs).

NAMS MISSION

1. Provide high quality, accessible and affordable care that is evidence-based and localised to suit our population.
2. Educate and engage the public on addiction prevention and treatment.
3. Reduce stigma and barriers to seeking treatment.
4. Raise standards of care through training and education.

National Crime Prevention Council

The National Crime Prevention Council (NCPC) is a non-profit organisation committed to promoting public awareness of and concern about crime and to propagate the concept of self-help in crime prevention. The Council comprises representatives from the commercial and industrial sectors, as well as from the public sector and the Singapore Police Force (SPF). The NCPC is incorporated as a charity and depends entirely on donations and sponsorships to run its programmes and activities. It is registered as a society with the Registry of Societies. 

Objectives of the council are: 

• to raise the level of the public awareness and concern about crime
• encourage self-help in crime prevention
• examine, develop and recommend crime prevention measures suitable to the public
• coordinate efforts of organisations in crime prevention

Various Penalties For Cyber Crimes

The most frequent type of online wrongdoing is identity fraud. This takes place when anybody creates a web page (or sends a mass email directing people to their web page) in the hopes that the victim will provide his or her personal information, like bank card data or SSN. The person or agency responsible for the fraud then uses your credit card for transactions, or in the case of bank-based cards, empty your account. This could also occur if you unconsciously acquired a computer virus from a web page or e-mail add-on. You'll want to be cautious prior to getting any type of attachment from an unfamiliar site, and find some type of virus protection on your system. Additionally, keep clear of all unsolicited business enterprise proposals from those you do not recognize. These are nearly always a hoax, and people found in charge of developing and releasing viruses may get jail time.

• Theft of telecommunications services is generally a misdemeanor and carries a fine with minimal jail time. Illegally intercepting communication is a Class D felony punishable by 1 to 5 years in prison and a fine.

• The penalty for illegally accessing a computer system ranges from 6 months to 5 years. The penalty for the unofficial modification on a computer ranges from 5 to 10 years.

Various Cyber Crimes That Has Been Committed

Cybercrime can take the form of cyber stalking, where they follow you around into various chat rooms and harass you online. This can also be things like a hacker taking control of your computer or someone stealing your identity online. Everything can be destroyed by cyber criminals. They can wipe entire hard drives, steal your entire life and everything about it and essentially just mess with your entire world.

How can you protect yourself from becoming a victim of cyber crime?

To prevent criminals from reaching your personal computer it is important to have a good antivirus protection program in place as well as a firewall. Ensure you use spyware programs and of course that you keep up on all the security updates for these programs as well.

Protect your personal information. Although many now have pictures and their entire lives posted on blogs and other sites, they are playing in dangerous waters. Criminals can locate everything about you from something as simple as your email address. So, simply put, minimize the information you provide online. Don't give out vital information like your Social Security Number or anything else unless you trust the source and their use for that information.

When shopping online, always ensure that you are using secure sites for your e-commerce transactions and payments.

Password protect everything, and do not use the obvious birth date or mailing address or any other simple to guess password. Pick up instead a program like roboform that will generate randomized letter and number combinations that are not associated with anything in your life.

Crimes Committed

Some of the many crimes that are regularly committed with the facilitation of the Internet are child pornography, fraud, the sell and purchase of illegal guns or drugs, or other material that are protected by copyright. In the worst cases, cyber crimes can result in child abduction and molestation, and physical harm to victims. These heinous crimes have forced lawmakers and legislators to look long at hard at the state of crimes in relation to the Internet, and what laws are in effect to protect and prevent such crimes from harming those at risk. 

Computer crimes can be broken down into three categories:

1."Hacking" into someone's computer for the purpose of stealing by taking complete control over the information contained within, or gaining control over someone's computer in an effort to sabotage information or mess up the flow of information or crash the server.

2. Criminals use computers as ways to keep up with illegal contacts, such as drug dealers. A person who steals identities may use the computer to store stolen passwords, credit card info, and other sensitive information in furtherance of an illegal act.

3. The other way in which criminals utilize the computer to further illegal acts is through the act of communication. Email accounts on a computer can be used to set up any number of unlawful acts.