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Determinants of extortion compliance: Empirical evidence from a victimisation survey [PDF]
, 2021 This article focuses on the situational-, victim- and area-level determinants of extortion compliance. Extortion, a quintessential organized crime, is one of the most common crimes in Mexico. However, compliance with extortion demands is relatively rare.
Estévez-Soto, P
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Consideration Without Economic Duress: Reframing the Analysis of Contractual Modifications
The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.Prevailing approaches to the contractual enforceability of modifications revise or dispense with the requirement of consideration and invoke economic duress to rule out unfair, inequitable, or bad faith modifications. Enforceability turns effectively on the absence of economic duress. But economic duress is a doctrine of avoidance.
Peter Benson
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Influence of diverse timescales on the evolution of cooperation in a double-layer lattice
Frontiers in Physics, 2023 This paper studies the influence of diverse strategy-updating timescales on the evolution of cooperation, defection, and extortion strategies in a double-layer lattice.
Yajun Mao +4 more
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Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The article presents a sociological study of promise‐to‐marry ‘rape’ cases in India to illuminate the inner lives of intimacies. It argues that promise‐to‐marry cases cannot be understood merely as instances of deceptive sex, wherein the consent of the victim is vitiated by a false promise of marriage as a pretext for sexual intercourse ...
Monika
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Monitoring Quality of Mafia‐Connected Accountants
Journal of Accounting Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We investigate the monitoring quality of accountants with ties to the Mafia in their role as auditors for “clean” firms—those with no known ties to organized crime. Using a proprietary government database, we identify Italian firms with alleged ties to the Mafia through their executives, directors, or shareholders.
Pietro A. Bianchi +3 more
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Growing awareness of social and environmental risks in global supply chains has driven a shift from voluntary corporate responsibility toward mandatory due diligence legislation. These emerging regulatory frameworks require businesses to identify, prevent, and mitigate adverse human rights and environmental impacts, thereby redefining the ...
Axel Marx, Kari Otteburn
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Has Australia lost control of its tobacco and nicotine markets?
Addiction, EarlyView.Abstract Background Australia has adopted two policies that the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends as best practice for tobacco control: it has steeply increased tobacco taxes since 2010 and only allowed access to nicotine vapes for medical use.
Ron Borland +4 more
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, 2015 Cartoon of extortion. Located in the southern Hutchins Hall corridor looking into the inner courtyard.https://repository.law.umich.edu/cartoons/1022/thumbnail ...
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, 1951 Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany 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 ...
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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