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Corruption, Extortion, and the Boundaries of the Law [PDF]
We consider a set-up in which a principal must decide whether or not to legalise a socially undesirable activity. The law is enforced by a monitor who may be bribed to conceal evidence of the offence and who may also engage in extortionary practices. The
Svetlana Andrianova, Nicolas Melissas
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Adaptive Dynamics of Extortion and Compliance
PLoS ONE, 2013 Direct reciprocity is a mechanism for the evolution of cooperation. For the iterated prisoner's dilemma, a new class of strategies has recently been described, the so-called zero-determinant strategies. Using such a strategy, a player can unilaterally enforce a linear relationship between his own payoff and the co-player's payoff.
Hilbe, Christian +2 more
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Privacy as a Defense Against Premature Representation
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Jordan Wallace‐Wolf
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Mapping Organized Crime as a Stakeholder: A Risk‐Based and Responsive Governance Perspective
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Organized crime (OC) can influence firms through coercion, collusion, financial ties, and supply‐chain relationships, yet these interactions remain underexamined in stakeholder theory. This article conceptualizes organized crime as an analytically relevant but non‐normatively legitimate stakeholder and develops a risk‐based framework combining
Giovanni Scirè, Enzo Bivona
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Bribery versus extortion: allowing the lesser of two evils
, 2010 Both bribery and extortion weaken the power of incentives, but there is a trade-off in fighting the two because rewards to prevent supervisors from accepting bribes create incentives for extortion. Which is the worse evil?
Yun, Sungho +6 more
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how a transnational coalition of NGOs, unions, and labor rights organizations drove both private and public regulation on gender‐based violence and harassment in Lesotho's garment sector, and how the resulting regulatory systems coexist despite ongoing tension between them.
Pauline Jerrentrup, Jade Kosché
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Creativity Under Pressure: A Case Study of Drug Cartel Innovation
The Journal of Creative Behavior, Volume 60, Issue 4, December 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines drug cartels as creative, innovation‐driven organizations rather than solely violent criminal enterprises. Building on creativity research applied to terrorist groups, we use a qualitative case study approach—drawing from news reports, official documents, open‐source materials, and academic work—to analyze 10 cases of ...
Isaac J. Moelter +3 more
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, 2019 Systematic extortion involves a long term parasitic relationship between the criminal and the victim. Game theory analysis has provided insight into the choices of individual hypothetical criminal and victim pairs. In this paper we present an agent-based
Badham, J, Elsenbroich, Corinna
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Base Semantics—A Novel Approach for Minimizing Malware Detection Rules
SECURITY AND PRIVACY, Volume 9, Issue 6, November/December 2026.ABSTRACT The rapid evolution of malware variants has increasingly undermined traditional signature‐based detection techniques, which are easily evaded through obfuscation and polymorphism that preserve malicious functionality. This challenge is particularly acute in Internet of Things (IoT) environments, where device heterogeneity, resource constraints,
Khizar Hayat +5 more
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Reform, Informal Sector and Extortion [PDF]
, 2014 Informal economy involving unrecorded, unregistered, extra legal activities employs majority of the workforce in the developing world. Such extra legal existence of informal production is facilitated through extortion by agents of political forces in ...
Mandal, Biswajit +2 more
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