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Some aspects of popularization of a social antihero [PDF]

open access: yesSociološki Pregled, 2008
The paper analyses the development and social significance of social heroes with particular view of those conditions in a social system which enables and facilitates mutual approximation, and symbolic and functional alternation of diverse categories ...
Pavićević Olivera
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Guns and Criminals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The first systematic effort to understand where, how, and why criminals acquire, carry, and use guns was by Wright and Rossi (1986). Key findings were that criminals rarely acquired firearms through conventional retail markets, that much criminal gun ...
Rayburn, Rachel L.   +3 more
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Analysis of the relation between intelligence and criminal behavior

open access: yesJournal of Health Sciences, 2012
Introduction: One of the cognitive aspects of personality is intelligence. A large number of previous studies have shown that the intelligence within the criminal population is decreased, particularly in its verbal aspect.
Dragan Jovanovic   +4 more
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Britain and the 'hand-over' of Italian war criminals to Yugoslavia, 1945-48 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
This article focuses on British policy towards the treatment of alleged Italian war criminals at the end of the second world war and, in particular, those requested by Yugoslavia for extradition.
Pedaliu, Effie G.H.
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White-Collar Criminals in Modern Management [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This is the originally published version of the article. Publishing journal is practicing Open AccessCriminal behavior among executives is a complicated challenge in human resource management. Based on a sample of 305 convicted white-collar criminals in
Gottschalk, Petter
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An experimental study of prosocial motivation among criminals [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
-This is the author's version of the article:"An experimental study of prosocial motivation among criminals"Experimental Economics, December 2014, Volume 17, Issue 4, pp 501-511.The fact that criminal behavior typically has negative consequences for ...
S. Birkeland   +3 more
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Conventionalists, Pioneers and Criminals Choosing Between a National Currency and a Global Currency

open access: yesJournal of Banking and Financial Economics, 2021
The article analyzes how conventionalists, pioneers and criminals choose between a national currency (e.g. a central bank digital currency) and a global currency (e.g.
Guizhou Wang, Kjell Hausken
doaj   +1 more source

Negotiating with the Bandits and Endless Security Challenges in Katsina State, Nigeria (2019-2020)

open access: yesJSW (Jurnal Sosiologi Walisongo), 2021
The paper assesses the context of armed banditry, cattle rustling, and kidnappings in Katsina State. The activities of the criminals have been on the rise and the security situation deteriorated after negotiation between the State Government and the ...
Muhammad Abdullahi Maigari   +2 more
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Crenças essencialistas sobre policiais e delinquentes

open access: yesPsicologia: Teoria e Pesquisa
O objetivo deste artigo foi descrever crenças esssencialistas em um experimento no paradigma do transplante de cérebro. Participantes brasileiros (101) e espanhóis (138) foram submetidos a um experimento mental de desenho 2 (país) x 2 (direção do ...
Marcos Emanoel Pereira   +3 more
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Criminals interpreting for criminals: breaking or shaping norms?

open access: yesJoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation, 2014
The concept of norms has been applied in Interpreting Studies to achieve a greater understanding of the principles regulating this activity in close connection to each particular context and its specific features.
Aída Martínez-Gómez
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