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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 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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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. These models make conflicting predictions about the role that interest groups play in
GREGORY G. BRUNK, LAURA ANN WILSON
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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In the study of organised crime, the traditional view of criminal groups as centrally controlled organisations has been replaced by the notion of criminal networks.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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Co-offending between criminal enterprise groups

Global Crime, 2011
Rather than examining networks of individuals as prior research has done, this study systematically examines the structure and composition of co-offending among types of criminal enterprise groups. Using social network analysis, the authors show that different types of crime groups tend to have unique co-offending patterns as measured by network ...
Aili Malm, Gisela Bichler, Rebecca Nash
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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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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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Psychological Needs Characteristic of Four Criminal-Offender Groups

The Journal of Social Psychology, 1966
(1966). Psychological Needs Characteristic of Four Criminal-Offender Groups. The Journal of Social Psychology: Vol. 69, No. 1, pp. 55-72.
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Interest Groups and Criminal Law: The Case of Federal Criminal Code Revision

Crime & Delinquency, 1984
Although the role played by interest groups in public policy formation has been well documented, systemic empirical research on their impact on criminal justice policy is missing. To begin to fill this gap in the literature this article addresses the following questions: Who has attempted to influence federal criminal code revision efforts?
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