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Unravelling the organisation of ivorian cyberfraudsters: Criminal networks or organised crime?
Journal of Economic CriminologyThis article delves into the organisation of Ivorian cyberfraudsters, known as “brouteurs”, who engage in romance scams and sextorsion, and it questions the various structures through which these fraudsters operate. The study's findings are based on data
Cristina Cretu-Adatte +5 more
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Journal of Cybersecurity and PrivacyRansomware attacks pose a serious threat to computer networks, causing widespread disruption to individual, corporate, governmental, and critical national infrastructures.
Sarah Alhuwayshil +2 more
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Journal of Economic Criminology, 2023 This article has two main objectives. First, to interrogate the concept and/or conception of ‘economic crime’ (framed as a singular thing). We argue that current policy, and subsequently, social scientific (or criminological more specifically) framings, tend to arbitrarily ‘carve up’ the objects of study that interest us, in turn creating a ‘conceptual
Nicholas Lord, Michael Levi
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Chinese Trade Competition and Rural Mexican Migration
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT China's accession to the World Trade Organization in 2001 reshaped global trade, reducing U.S. demand for Mexican manufactured goods and weakening Mexico's manufacturing employment. This study estimates how this trade‐induced decline affected migration and employment decisions among rural Mexicans.
Zachariah Rutledge, Joaquin Mayorga
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Organised crime in Australia 2015 [PDF]
, 2015 Provides the context in which organised crime operates in Australia and gives an overview of each of the key illicit markets and the activities which fundamentally enable serious and organised crime.
Australian Crime Commission
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Gait recognition based on attention convolutional networks and part-based feature representation
Franklin OpenGait recognition systems are often affected by factors such as changes in viewing angle, clothing, carried items, and complex backgrounds, leading to significant intra-class variations in gait features and consequently reducing recognition performance ...
Lu Wang
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Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Cultural capital influences a wide range of social and economic outcomes, yet quantitative measures suitable for policy analysis remain limited. We develop county‐level cultural capital indices for the US based on Bourdieu's framework of objectified, embodied, and institutionalized cultural capital.
Pratyoosh Kashyap +2 more
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European Journal of Risk RegulationLaundering the proceeds of crime presents a fundamental threat to competitive markets, security and the well-being of European consumers. This paper examines the new European Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA), created as part of the 2024 EU AML ...
Branislav Hock
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The origin of a product, if associated with good quality, can contribute to building a positive collective reputation, leading to a potential price premium. However, it is conceivable that a producer markets a product by evoking symbols, images, words, and values typical of places other than where it was designed or produced, creating a ...
Annalisa Caloffi +2 more
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Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões +2 more
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