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Crime Proceeds Value Threshold in Extended Confiscation in the Light of the Principles of Legality and Proportionality and Rational Penal Policy

open access: yesKriminologijos studijos, 2022
The article discusses the clause provided in the Lithuanian Criminal Code, which limits the court’s extended powers of confiscation in regard of crime proceeds of value less than EUR 12,500.
Skirmantas Bikelis
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Hidden Costs of Ethical Fashion: Sustainable Development Goals and Garment Worker Exploitation in Bangladesh

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Across garment factories in the Global South, the promise of “ethical fashion” coexists with poverty wages and retaliation. This study examines why the global call for decent work has not improved labor conditions in Bangladesh's ready‐made garment industry.
Md. Rafiqul Islam Rana
wiley   +1 more source

GENERAL CONFISCATION OF BANKRUPTCY VS CRIMINAL CONFISCATION IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF LEGAL BENEFIT

open access: yesRussian Law Journal, 2023
This study aims to obtain information regarding general confiscation of bankruptcy Vs criminal confiscation in the perspective of legal benefit and general confiscation of bankruptcy prior to criminal confiscation in the same perspective, namely legal benefit.
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Fiscal grievance politics: wealth taxation and master‐race democracy in post‐coup Bolivia Politique des griefs fiscaux : impôt sur la fortune et démocratie de la race maîtresse en Bolivie post‐coup d’État

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article analyses a new wealth tax (the IGF) in Bolivia against the backdrop of the 2019 ousting of former president Evo Morales. In doing so, it engages calls for ‘a return to politics’ in anthropology by proposing the notion of a ‘fiscal grievance politics’ as animating elite opposition to the tax in lowland Santa Cruz department. I show that the
Charles Dolph
wiley   +1 more source

Confiscation orders and abuse of process: discretion to prevent "double whammy" under the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Explores the circumstances in which the making of an application for a confiscation order might amount to an abuse of process entitling the court to grant a stay of proceedings. Outlines the facts leading to the Court of Appeal decision in R.
Mitchell, Rebecca, Stockdale, Michael
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EXTENDED CONFISCATION – SAFETY MEASURE REGULATED IN THE NEW CRIMINAL CODE [PDF]

open access: yesChallenges of the Knowledge Society, 2015
Extended confiscation is a safety measure introduced in Romanian criminal law in 2012. Romania's Constitutional Court has ruled several decisions in which a question has been raised of whether the legal provisions on extended confiscation are ...
Mihai Adrian HOTCA
doaj  

Asset Recovery in the German Criminal Justice System: Lights and Shadows of the New Regulation of the Confiscation of the Proceeds Of Crime

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Direito Processual Penal, 2020
In this paper, we intend to examine the highlights of the German Asset Recovery Act (Gesetz zur Reform der strafrechtlichen Vermögensabschöpfung), in force since 1st July 2017.
Ana E. Carrillo del Teso
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‘Enthusiasts’ and ‘Fanatics’: The Decembrists as a Case Study in French Influence on Russian Culture, Emotions and Thought

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
wiley   +1 more source

THE LEGITIMACY TRAP: Street Vending Heterogeneity and Selective Enforcement in San Francisco

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Literature on street vending regulation often emphasizes the challenges in enforcing legal frameworks due to unclear laws or insufficient state capacity. However, it tends to overlook diversity among vendors themselves along crucial parameters such as spatial location, community ties and processes of goods procurement.
Irene Farah
wiley   +1 more source

Can Condoms Be Compelling? Examining the State Interest in Confiscating Condoms from Suspected Sex Workers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Confiscating condoms from suspected sex workers leaves them at risk for HIV/AIDS, other sexually transmitted diseases, and unwanted pregnancy. Yet, police officers in New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles collect condoms from sex workers to use ...
Newcomer, Meghan
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