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Extortion in the United Kingdom [PDF]
, 2016 Extortion racketeering has been long pointed out as the “defining activity of organised crime” (Konrad & Skaperdas, 1998). Although in recent years this crime has not been among the top listed organised crime threats in the strategic EU policy documents,
Bonino, Stefano
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Character of the national legal fight against corruption
Studia Humanitatis, 2019 Corruption is a mimicking antisocial form of distribution of social wealth. Economic opportunities will always be less than the growing appetites of consumers.
Timoschuk Alexey Stanislavovich +1 more
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Extortion, firm's size and the sectoral allocation of capital
, 2014 Extortion of firms is a typical activity of organized crime such as Mafia. We develop a simple principal-agent model to find the Mafia-optimal extortion as a function of firm’s observable characteristics, specifically firm’s size.
BALLETTA, Luigi, LAVEZZI, Andrea Mario
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PHENOMENON OF THREAT IN LINGUISTIC THEORY AND FORENSIC PRACTICE
Теория и практика судебной экспертизы, 2014 The paper argues for a need to take on board the basic principles of «natural language» communication, as a universal approach that helps to reveal the latent semantics of written text (including the intention of threat). The author di!erentiates between
A. Baranov
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Bribery vs. extortion: allowing the lesser of two evils [PDF]
, 2007 Rewards to prevent supervisors from accepting bribes create incentives for extortion. This raises the question whether a supervisor who can engage in bribery and extortion can still be useful in providing incentives. By highlighting the role of team work
Yun, Sungho +2 more
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, 1951 Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Fort Worth butcher, Eugene Wesley Sapp, charged with extortion after threatening over the phone to blow up the home of oilman Lou Wattenbarger unless he paid him $2 ...
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Social Architecture of Modern-day Political Extortion
, 2012 What is the social architecture of modern-day political extortion rackets? Sociometrics will be created using the book Heist by Peter Stone. Sociometrics offers a set of analytical tools that enable social researchers and criminal investigators to map ...
McFadden, Joseph
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Topical issues of corruption counteraction
Russian Journal of Economics and Law, 2014 Objective: to give answers to the topical issues of corruption counteraction. Methods: the methodological basis of research is the overall dialectic method of cognition, as well as general scientific, special and private methods of research.
V. V. Sverchkov
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Criminal governance and extortion in informal economies: fear as a mechanism of territorial control in Lima. [PDF]
Front SociolEspinoza Escobar JH +2 more
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Evaluation of the effect of unilateral and bilateral inferior oblique myectomy on fundus torsion in primary and secondary inferior oblique overaction. [PDF]
North Clin Istanb, 2023 Yilmaz OF, Oguz H.
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