Extortion experiences of recent adult immigrants from Latin America: self-reported prevalence, associated costs, and current mental health [PDF]
Injury EpidemiologyViolence across Latin America is an increasingly important factor influencing migration to the US. A particular form of violence that is experienced by many Latinx migrants is extortion.
Laura Vargas +9 more
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Cultural Transmission and Extortion
Games, 2018 This paper explores the role of cultural transmission in extortion. Extortion is modeled as an asymmetric contest where individuals from one group attempt to take from individuals in another group. Using a model of cultural transmission, this paper finds
Garret Ridinger
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Concern about the possibility of being a victim of extortion and symptoms of anxiety, depression, and stress in Peruvian adults: a model of structural equations [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychiatryIntroductionExtortion has become a growing problem for public security in Latin America, especially in Peru, where an increase in the rate of victims of extortion has intensified citizens’ fear.ObjectiveThe objective was to explore the relationship ...
Oscar Mamani-Benito +9 more
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Extortion or cost-reduction: why do firms pay bribes?
Journal of Applied Economics, 2019 Do firms bribe government officials to reduce their costs or do bribe payments arise because of extortion from government officials? Using three of the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance surveys of firms across several countries and ...
Kevin Sylwester
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Individualistic attitudes in Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma undermine evolutionary fitness and may drive cooperative human players to extinction [PDF]
Royal Society Open ScienceInarguably, humans perform the richest plethora of prosocial behaviours in the animal kingdom, and these are important for understanding how humans navigate their social environment.
Erdem Pulcu
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القذف والابتزاز الإلكتروني بين الشريعة الإسلامية والقانون الكويتي [PDF]
Al-Maǧallah Al-Qānūniyyaẗ, 2023 هدف البحث إلى توضيح التكييف الفقهي لجريمة الابتزاز وأنها نوع من الإكراه بغير حق، وسعت إلى بيان المسؤولية المدنية والجزائية عن جريمة الابتزاز، وأثر المباشرة والتسبب عليها، كما تستهدف الدراسة طرق الوقاية من جريمة الابتزاز في الفقه الإسلامي والقانون الكويتي،
ريم أحمد محماس سيف الدوسري
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Characteristics and manners of corruptive acts described in feuilletons, records and short stories by Branislav Nušić [PDF]
CM. Communication and Media, 2023 Branislav Nušić - whose descriptions of corruption and corruptive conduct of individuals and authorities of his time are presented and analyzed in this paper - humorously and accurately depicted situations, manners and character of the participants in ...
Joković-Pantelić Milica
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UPAYA PENINDAKAN PEMBERANTASAN PUNGLI OLEH SATGAS SABER PUNGLI
Jurnal Litigasi, 2020 The extortion phenomenon has become part of the daily lives of Indonesian people. The practice of extortion is very easily found in almost all public service institutions from the lower level to the central level. It is important to understand that
Gustitia Arleta
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Neerlandica Wratislaviensia, 2023 This article deals with the topic of anonymous extortion letters. Anonymous extortion letters are a challenge for linguists and criminal intelligence services and raise a whole range of questions that ultimately allow a creation of the psycholinguistic ...
Anna Witczak
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Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2022 Based on Charles Tilly’s definition of state-making, this article develops the concept of legalized extortion to understand the expansion of the state’s fiscal capacity towards informal street vending.
Francesco Ginocchio
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