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Criminalization of Participation in an Organized Criminal Group

2023
Abstract This chapter looks into Article 5 taking the role as one of the core articles of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) that promoted some level of harmonization and cooperation. It aims to criminalize participation in an organized criminal group as defined in Article 2(a).
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The mobility of criminal groups

Global Crime, 2011
This article reviews evidence from past research that addresses diverse themes and theories regarding shifts and patterns in the mobility of criminal groups. Our main objective is to identify push and pull factors that will help us understand how and why criminal groups, organisations or general organised crime patterns are present across a variety of ...
Carlo Morselli, Mathilde Turcotte, Valentina Tenti   +2 more
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CRIMINAL AND LEGAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ORGANIZED GROUP AND CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION

2022
Over the past two years, Ukraine has seen a negative trend in the level of organized crime. In order to reduce the level of organized crime, a number of measures have been taken, namely in 2020 the Strategy for Combating Organized Crime was approved, international experience in combating organized crime is being actively introduced, and the Criminal ...
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Interest Groups and Criminal Behavior

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 1991
The fundamental origins of legal codes are little understood. According to pluralists, laws are beneficial public goods that evolve from open political competition. An economic model sees laws as the product of selfish motivations and illegitimate lobbying pressures.
GREGORY G. BRUNK, LAURA ANN WILSON
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Criminal Group Responsibility

2017
During the Japanese occupation, the widespread and almost daily commission of war crimes by members of the Tokkeitai and Kempeitai resulted in a unique post-World War II approach to the prosecution of war crimes: If a war crime was committed within the framework of the activities of a group of persons in such a way that the crime could be ascribed to ...
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Criminal groups and transnational illegal markets

Crime, Law and Social Change, 2004
In the study of organised crime, the traditional view of criminal groups as centrally controlled organisations has been replaced by the notion of criminal networks. However, little use has been made of concepts and theories of social networks that have developed in other social sciences.
Bruinsma, Gerben, Bernasco, Wim
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Article 5 Criminalization of Participation in an Organized Criminal Group

2023
This book offers a comprehensive, article-by-article legal commentary on the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime and its Protocols on trafficking in persons, smuggling of migrants, and trafficking in firearms and ammunition.The Convention- often referred to by the acronym UNTOC- was approved by the UN General Assembly on 15 ...
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ASPECTS ON ORGANIZED CRIMINAL GROUPS [PDF]

CONTEMPORARY LEGAL INSTITUTIONS, 2014
The author presents the concept of organized criminal group as defined in regional/international documents and in internal regulations, the incrimination of criminal groups in the Romanian legislation and some of the problems generated by the amendment to the criminal legislation and the entry into force of the new Criminal Code on the issue.
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Interest groups in the criminal justice process

Journal of Criminal Justice, 1981
Abstract This article reviews recent research about interest groups in criminal justice policy making and considers the state of knowledge in this area. Portions of major studies by Downs, Berk et al., and Berk and Rossi are discussed. These studies came to varying conclusions about the nature and importance of interest group influence.
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