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Empathy and attitudes toward protecting migrants from criminal violence
Abstract Migrants in Latin America are increasingly vulnerable to organized crime violence while en route to their destination. Public opinion regarding how to address this problem varies. While many residents of countries along migration routes support policies protecting migrants from organized crime, others oppose them. What explains this variation?
Rebecca Bell‐Martin +1 more
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A safe asset in early modern Castile, 1543–1714
Abstract This article shows how public offices in the early modern period became investment assets in Castile (Spain). Moreover, it demonstrates that offices fulfilled all the conditions for being viewed as safe assets. In particular, through the combination of qualitative sources with a novel hand‐collected database, it shows that offices did not ...
Víctor M. Gómez‐Blanco
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The Carolingian cocio: on the vocabulary of the early medieval petty merchant
The word cocio (i.e. petty merchant or broker in classical Latin) was a rare term that after a long absence in written Latin reappeared in several Carolingian texts. Scholars have posited a medieval semantic shift from ‘merchant’ to ‘vagabond’. But this article argues that this consensus is erroneous.
Shane Bobrycki
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The law of treason has been criticised for being based on ‘outdated’ statutes which are inflexible and unsuitable for modern needs. However, a historical examination of the evolution of treason in Britain and its empire suggests that the law was often adaptable.
Michael Lobban
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Jimeno, Myriam Crimen Pasional. Contribución a una antropología de las emociones Bogotá: Colección CES, Universidad Nacional de Colombia ...
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Con esta investigación se ha hecho un análisis minucioso de lo que implica el crimen organizado, sus definiciones, ámbito de ejercicio de las actividades, estructura de una organización, componentes de la organización, funciones de cada uno de los integrantes de una organización criminal.
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<p>Reseña al libro <em>“The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One: How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry”</em>. William Black. University of Texas Press, 2005.</p>
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A partir de "El asesinato considerado como una de las bellas artes", de Thomas De Quincey, y de "Pluma, lápiz y veneno", de Oscar Wilde, se indagan los efectos que el concepto de "lo sublime" (tomado en las consideraciones de Burke y Kant) produjo en el debate acerca de la autonomización de la critica durante el Siglo XIX.
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RESUMEN La seguridad pública está formada por diferentes acciones que son la prevención, las investigaciones criminales, la persecución de los delincuentes, el tratamiento de las víctimas de los delitos, la impartición y administración de la justicia, el tratamiento penitenciario y la reinserción social. En lo que concierne al desarrollo de la sociedad,
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