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The Culture Of Mass Incarceration: Why "Locking Them Up And Throwing Away The Key" Isn't Working And How Prison Conditions Can Be Improved, Melanie M. Reid Dec 2015

The Culture Of Mass Incarceration: Why "Locking Them Up And Throwing Away The Key" Isn't Working And How Prison Conditions Can Be Improved, Melanie M. Reid

Melanie M. Reid

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A Comparative Approach To Economic Espionage: Is Any Nation Effectively Dealing With This Global Threat?, Melanie M. Reid Dec 2015

A Comparative Approach To Economic Espionage: Is Any Nation Effectively Dealing With This Global Threat?, Melanie M. Reid

Melanie M. Reid

In 1996, Congress passed the Economic Espionage Act (EEA) to help thwart attempts by foreign entities from stealing U.S. companies’ proprietary information and trade secrets. The EEA focuses on the state-sponsored targeting of U.S. trade secrets and technology misappropriated with the intent to benefit a foreign government or an instrumentality. Currently, any and all U.S. technology that is vulnerable and profitable is being targeted. However, few cases have been filed using 18 U.S.C. Section 1831 (EEA). This article identifies the United States’ and other countries’ responses to economic espionage and who are the leading offenders. The article then evaluates this …