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Bribery vs. Extortion: Allowing the Lesser of two Evils [PDF]
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
Fahad Khalil +2 more
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LEGAL ANALYSIS OF THE GENERAL CRIME IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION: STATUS AND TRENDS OF DEVELOPMENT
RUDN Journal of Law, 2019 The current conditions of the ongoing intra-state socio-economic and political-legal transformations inevitably affect the state, structure and dynamics of ordinary criminal mercenary criminality.
Vadim A Avdeev, Ekaterina V Avdeeva
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Pursuing patents for their own sake: How the investment discourse shapes patent quality and quantity
The Journal of World Intellectual Property, EarlyView.Abstract Patent systems worldwide face criticisms over declining patent quality and increasing patent quantity. While most research focuses on strengthening examination rigour, this article turns attention to relatively underexplored patenting incentives.
Li Liu
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Extortion and Informal Sector in a Small Open Economy [PDF]
Informal economy involving unrecorded, unregistered, extra legal activities employs majority of the workforce in the developing world. Such extra legal existence of informal manufacturing and service sectors is facilitated through extortion by agents of ...
Mandal, Biswajit, Marjit, Sugata
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Second Order Bribery and Extortion [PDF]
, 2018 In this paper I explore a constellation of activities that can be referred to as second order cases of bribery and extortion, and my suggestion is that an acquaintance with these activities can yield a richer appreciation of the moral issues surrounding ...
Mellema, Gregory
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Money Laundering and Illegal Trafficking of Waste: Evidence From Italian Provinces
Kyklos, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Money laundering and waste‐related crimes are widely studied by the literature. However, little attention has been paid to the connection between the latter and the former. Using Italian data at the provincial level, the analysis presented here shows that waste‐related crimes also generate illegal proceeds that increase the flows of dirty ...
Emanuele Lucca +2 more
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Offers That Cannot Be Refused: An anthropology of extortion
International audienceWhat makes an offer impossible to refuse? Combining original ethnography with compelling storytelling, this book traces the social life of extortion across Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, China, Ecuador, Guatemala, India, Italy ...
Hoque, Ashraf +17 more
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Legal and Criminological Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Background Information gathered during court hearings is crucial for legal decision‐making in Germany, as it can directly influence the accuracy and fairness of judicial outcomes. Aim This study is the first aiming to explore how legal practitioners (i.e.
Lennart May +3 more
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The Content of Blackmail: Theory and Practice
Сибирское юридическое обозрение, 2016 The article reveals the characteristic details that make up the content of blackmail as a type of extortion. The author concludes that the current version of the rules on extortion artificially narrows the scope of this provision, which can not but ...
Yury A. Nikitin
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the embodied and institutional forms of marginalization experienced by Mexican deportees in Tijuana. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in clinics and social service organizations, it explores how deportees are corporeally stigmatized, denied legal recognition, and pathologized as addicts in need of coercive ...
Carlos Martinez
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