PICT3001 (PICX3001) Assessment: The Portfolio Instructions · Gather 5 news articles for each week’s topic, starting week 4 and finishing on week 11. · Copy-paste them into a Word document, use the...

PICT3001 (PICX3001)
Assessment: The Portfolio
Instructions
· Gather 5 news articles for each week’s topic, starting week 4 and finishing on week 11.
· Copy-paste them into a Word document, use the same Word document throughout the semester.
· At the end of the week, write no more than 150 words about what you learned from the 5 news reports.
· At the end, you should have a total of 40 news pieces, and eight150 word blurbs.
· Before submission, you will write a mini-essay of between 1,000 and 1,500 words on one of the topics you researched (e.g. Mafia States – Week 9).
· You will submit everything as one document.
· You can use the template below or your own.
Portfolio Template
PICT3001 Transnational Crime
Assessment 3.
Portfolio
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Week 4 Cyber Crime
Short analysis
The above story entails the internet worm of 1988 and the way it inhibits the analysis of the program. This was the first worm, which was spread with the help of internet. This cyber virus quickly spread at breakneck speed, bringing systems to a standstill. "Right now, it is known that people being attacked." Although the worm exclusively targeted machines running a specific version of the UNIX operating system, it quickly spread due to its many attack routes. Morris was a brilliant scientist related to computer who had conventional his bachelor's degree from Harvard in June 1988. Morris was well known at Harvard for his technological skill, particularly in UNIX; he was also a joker (Lallie et al. 2021). He began building software that could propagate slowly and covertly throughout the Internet after being admitted into Cornell that August. To avoid detection, he downloaded it from his Cornell terminal in Ithaca, New York, by hacking onto an MIT computer.
Week 5 Drugs and Guns
Short analysis
From the above analysis it is stated that the illegality of drug trafficking is maintained by Portugal decriminalized of drug use. As an outcome of Portugal's reform, the nature of the penalties for personal possession and consumption of narcotics has shifted from criminal to administrative. However, the user must still rely on illegal marketplaces to get narcotics. In contrast to decriminalisation, legalisation entails the passage of legislation that permits and provide for governmental control of drug manufacture, sale, and use. In most situations, criminal consequences, such as those involving minors or motor vehicle operation, complement administrative control.
Importantly, decriminalizing personal possession is simply one component of wider health-focused drug policy reforms that include a greater emphasis on harm reduction and treatment. Portuguese improvement permits drugs to be handled as a health issue rather than a criminal justice issue by accepting the reality of drug use rather than perpetually expecting that it would disappear as an outcome of oppressive law.
Week 6 Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation
Short analysis
There are various crimes in many states, which are related to the human trafficking. Most States have laws under the criminalization abduction kidnapping in general illegal sequestration. Slavery, rape, forced pregnancy in human and degrading treatment drug trafficking are all the common crimes are related to the human trafficking. This human trafficking contains illegal activities that should be people as the products (Wijkman and Kleemans 2019). The main aim of this crime is to traffic the person and explode the person while involving the exploitation of the migrant. According to the above analysis, the vulnerable population is all the victims of human trafficking, which are the social and legal protection at a little amount. Women account for 70% of victims, and the danger for women may be amplified in regions where significant gender prejudice is prevalent.
Week 7 People Smuggling
Short analysis
According to the scale of the problem of people smuggling, it was analysed that according to the fifth consecutive year, there has been a forcible increase in the displaying of people number worldwide exceeding around 42.5 million. As an outcome of persistent conflict in different parts of the world by 12 stuffs by the end of the year 2011 15, 0.2 million refugees and 10.4 million were under the mandate of UNHCR and 4.8 million by Palestinian refugees. The current Refugee crisis has taken place because of the displacement of a president number of people (Markovic et al. 2019). In addition, it is estimated that more number of people was the red refugees are displacing from one place to another and it has the high profit and low risk for the traffic rules. Primarily, migrant smuggling is the process of illegal entry of a person into the state of which the person is not a national resident in the country.
Week 8 Mafia States
Short analysis
It is analysed from the above image that there is a decline in the activity of economic because of the covid-19 is unprecedented in the history of the world. It affects the productive and real sectors of the economy, which makes it more person and witness towards the aftermath of 2008 crisis. The economic crisis of 2008 was a slow burn and including events such as Macro Economic development played out over months. An economic meltdown is an unanticipated occurrence that can happen at any time and has no predictable pattern.
It can happen as an outcome of financial deregulation, such as during the Great Recession of 2008, or as an outcome of an unanticipated catastrophe, such as the Covid-19 epidemic (Acemoglu et al. 2020). The globe is now undergoing a coronavirus pandemic, which has infected around 4.8 million individuals and resulted in approximately 318,000 fatalities. There are around 96,000 cases in India alone, with approximately 3,000 individuals dying. Social isolation and adequate cleanliness are the only ways to keep this illness at bay.
Week 9 State Crime
Short analysis
It is stated from the other image that neoliberals is contemporarily used to state the Reform policies of market orientation such as eliminating the control over the prices and deregulating the capital markets and lowering the trade barriers. It can be done especially with the help of austerity and privatization tilting the influence over economy. New liberalism is opening stated as the procedure of believing it means of Sustainable economic development and achieving the human progress action.
It can be...