Cengage Advantage Books: Business Law 13th Edition by Roger LeRoy Miller

Exercise 10

Cyber Crime. Cyber crime costs consumers millions of dollars per year, and it costs businesses, including banks and other credit-card issuers, even more. Nonetheless, when cyber criminals are caught and convicted, they are rarely ordered to pay restitution or sentenced to long prison terms.
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(a) One group should argue that stiffer sentences would reduce the amount of cyber crime.
(b) A second group should determine how businesspersons can best protect themselves from cyber crime and avoid the associated costs.