hat have abounded. Due to the ineptness of Congress and their bureaucratic red tape, would rather concern themselves with street crime rather than with the white-collar crime that is overwhelming our police agencies. This report also states that there are organizations that our trying to fight these bills, because they feel that "Our free enterprise system would come to an end," and "Our prisons would be filled with "honest businessmen." As it turns out, these statement made by these groups were found to be baseless and unfounded. Our free enterprise system is still here, and these so called "honest" businessmen (of course if these "honest" businessmen were not involved in criminal activities, they would not be in prison), are not over crowding our prison systems. Then we have the purists who feel that there are many loopholes in any bill that is introduced and disagree with the term of computers. Most any bill that is passed will have some degree of loopholes, and when we find them, we would make an attempt to close them. Bequai (1984) states that "the threat of computers are two-fold. First, there is the cost of these crimes, and as the professional criminal begins to use this technology, the problem will escalate dramatically. There is justifiable concern can open the floodgates of government regulation." The cost of these crimes although at that time was small compared to other white-collar crimes where now it has escalated to a much higher level. This is a growing problem, and this seems at that time, that Congress was not concerned about it. As of this writing, there has been more reaction from Congress to pass more laws concerning computer crime, that it may be possible that the floodgates have been opened.According to Durkin (1997), "child sex abuse is widely recognized as an especially serious problem in the United States." Due to the Internet, our fast growing technology, the deviant behavior of pedophiles, and s...
