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Financial Investigations Concerning the Ordering of Precautionary Measures, of Special and Extended Confiscation During Criminal Proceedings [PDF]

Ovidius University Annals: Economic Sciences Series, 2020
The financial investigation is an important process in carrying out the prosecution, particularly concerning economic and financial cases, which involves the collection, obtaining and analysing of data and information necessary for the tracking and ...
Tiberiu-Adrian Toader
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Equity considerations in the proposed wildlife protocol to the Convention against Transnational Organized Crime

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Wildlife trafficking poses a critical threat to global biodiversity, contributes to organized crime, and has disproportionate impacts on underserved and Indigenous communities. Although international legal instruments, such as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, and institutional collaborations,
Chad Patrick Osorio
wiley   +1 more source

Criminal Law as Police Power: Serious Crime, Unsafe Protest and Risks to Public Safety

International Journal for Crime, Justice and Social Democracy, 2018
This article considers the deepening of police power in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, criminal law. It analyses the combined effects of four recent criminal law regimes that not only give the NSW Police Force more powers, but also reflect the ...
Vicki Sentas, Michael Grewcock
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Foreign Aid, Civil Society and Post‐colonial Statebuilding in the Thai‒Myanmar Borderworld

Development and Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Foreign aid is often used to promote good governance and to strengthen civil society, yet it can reproduce the uneven geographies of post‐colonial statebuilding. This article provides a relational and interpretivist analysis of foreign aid in southeast Myanmar between 2012 and 2021, when Western donors backed the country's democratic ...
Shona Loong
wiley   +1 more source

Confiscation and Statute of Limitation of the Criminal Offence of Unlawful Site Development. From the Strengthening of the Notion of Conviction “in a substantial sense” to the Extensive Interpretation of art. 578-bis of the Italian Code of Criminal Procedure

Lexambiente, 2020
The confiscation pursuant to art. 44 of Presidential Decree no. 380 of 6 June 2001 can be ordered despite the expiring of the statute of limitation of the criminal offence of unlawful site development, as long as the offence has been ascertained, under ...
PIERDONATI Marco
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The assets recovery, the mutual recognition scheme and the requests for judicial cooperation related to non-conviction based forfeiture in Portugal

Revista Brasileira de Direito Processual Penal, 2020
The present work seeks to answer the following question: in Portugal, does the mutual recognition regime cover a request for judicial cooperation, from another Member State of the European Union, based on non-conviction based confiscation ?.
Gabriel Marson Junqueira
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Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article asks if clientelism is a form of citizenship in an agrarian society under military domination. It focuses on the efforts made by villagers in central Burma to recover land previously grabbed by force by the military state. A promise of land return during the political transition of the 2010s enabled dispossessed farmers to define ...
Stéphen Huard, Mya Dar Li Thant
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The Right to Information in Criminal Proceedings Regarding the Confiscation of Criminally Acquired Property

Law: Journal of the University of Latvia
The authors of the current article examine the right to information in criminal proceedings regarding the confiscation of criminally acquired property. The paper provides a detailed overview of the legislative development in Latvia, with a focus on the ...
Jānis Rozenbergs, Kristīne Hofmane
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Organized Crime, Corruption, and Economic Growth

Journal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 535-560, March 2025.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we study the relationship between organized crime, corruption, and economic growth on a data set from Italian regions for the period 1996–2013. Our working hypothesis is that organized crime can embezzle part of the public expenditure aimed at productive uses by threatening and bribing public officers. To assess the consequences
Tamara Fioroni, Andrea Mario Lavezzi, Giovanni Trovato   +2 more
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Implementing The Confiscation Of Confiscated Objects For Criminal Acts Of Corruption That Have Impaired Value

Corruptio, 2022
This research discuss the implementation of confiscating criminal acts of corruption that have decreased in value. The author raised this matter because, based on data released by Indonesia Corruption Watch (ICW), there were 533 (five hundred and thirty-three) cases throughout 2021. Based on this data, it was found that the total potential state losses
openaire   +1 more source