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Writing economic crimes into being: The case of swindling
Journal of Economic CriminologyEconomic crimes are – often – abstract crimes. Even for a somewhat well-trained accounting expert, these crimes are ambiguous, hard to detect and difficult to interpret. The abstract character of economic crimes is a problem in need of a solution.
Alexander Paulsson +3 more
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Ten Economic Facts About Crime and Incarceration in the United States [PDF]
, 2014 Crime and high rates of incarceration impose tremendous costs on society, with lasting negative effects on individuals, families, and communities. Rates of crime in the United States have been falling steadily, but still constitute a serious economic and
Benjamin H. Harris +3 more
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The EU's Strategy for Sustainability: A Landmark Turn With the European Green Deal?
European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While the European Green Deal (EGD) has been widely recognized as a milestone in the EU's sustainability strategy, scholars disagree on the nature of the policy change it represents. Critics highlight its limited social and environmental ambitions, despite its portrayal as a “man on the moon” moment.
Ekaterina Domorenok, Franco Gatti
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Turning the Corner on Mass Incarceration? [PDF]
, 2011 For the first time in forty years, the national incarceration rate is flattening out, even falling in state prisons. For the first time in three decades, the number of adults under any kind of correctional supervision—in prison or jail or on probation or
Cole, David
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When Rare Is Not Small: Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Initiatives and Therapy
Exploration, EarlyView.In the precision‐medicine era, rare diseases must not be sidelined in translational infrastructure. The Mr. Cai Lei—led “Ice‐Breaking Team” turns an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patient community into a sustainable ecosystem, realigning philanthropy, data, and research and development to reshape rare‐disease pipelines and guide precision therapies ...
Yang Liu +6 more
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ACTUAL PROBLEMS OF CRIMINAL PROCEDURE FOR THE CRIMES IN BUSINESS AND OTHER ECONOMIC CRIMES
Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2013 Thepaper deals with problems of criminal law and criminal procedure for the crimes in the sphere of economic and business activity in the context of the reform by Russian legislators from 2003 to the present time, based on the current trend towards ...
S. S. Semchenko
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Fire and Materials, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this article, the relationship between the level of deprivation, measured by the Indices of Multiple Deprivation decile (IMD decile) determined by the UK Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, and the number of different types of accidental dwelling fires (ADFs) in populations across the different IMD deciles is examined ...
M. Taylor +4 more
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Criminal Choice, Nonmonetary Sanctions, and Marginal Deterrence: A Normative Analysis [PDF]
, 1990 This paper develops a normative model of optimal sanctions in the Becker Tradition which emphasizes the role of marginal deterrence. The paper complements Shavell's 1987 American Economic Review paper, the essential difference being that Shavell's model ...
Wilde, Louis L.
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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Status of Women and Girls in Southern Arizona 2010 [PDF]
, 2010 With the publication of the Status of Women and Girls in Southern Arizona report in the spring of 2009, the Women's Foundation of Southern Arizona achieved one of its major goals of establishing a comprehensive and accessible resource to provide data and
Ami Nagle
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