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The economics of repeated extortion [PDF]
This paper provides a simple model of repeated extortion. In particular, we ask whether corrupt government officials' ex post opportunism to demand more once entrepreneurs have made sunk investments entails further distortion in resource allocations.
Choi, Jay Pil, Thum, Marcel
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Extortion in Colombia 2003 - 2015 [PDF]
Extortion is the crime that has had the biggest growth in Colombia in the past few years, and it is among those that most affect the security perception in the country. Between 2003 and 2014 this crime grew by 136%, affecting all the departaments and 901
Ibarra, Rafael
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Türk-Fransız Hukukunda Yağma Suçu ve İstatistik Bilgilerle Suçun Sosyoekonomik Yönü
Anadolu Üniversitesi Hukuk Fakültesi DergisiYağma suçu, hırsızlık suçunun cebir veya tehdit kullanılarak işlenmesiyle oluşan birden fazla suçu bünyesinde barındıran bileşik bir suçtur. Bileşik bir suç olan yağma suçunun cezalandırılması ile birden fazla hukuki yarar korunmaktadır.
Hamide Şahin Subaşı +2 more
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Home sweet harm: Confinement and tranquilidad in post‐asylum Peru
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how Peru's Community Mental Health (CMH) model contributes to the exclusion and home confinement of mentally ill individuals. Based on the experience of a woman diagnosed with schizophrenia and her mother, I show how CMH's emphasis on community‐based care often fails in practice, as neighbors respond to people with mental
Julio Villa‐Palomino
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Mercy for money: Torture’s link to profit in Sri Lanka, a retrospective review
Torture, 2017 Background: The purpose of this retrospective study is to describe the pattern of bribe taking in exchange for release from torture, during and after the decades-long war in Sri Lanka.
Wendell Block, Block +2 more
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Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
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A Public Philosophy for Public Administration in Times of Democratic Crisis
Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Public administration is at the center of the global democratic crisis. Meeting this challenge requires more than managerial and analytic competence—it requires a public philosophy grounded in the first principles of democratic ethos. We offer such a philosophy, drawing on four seminal thinkers whose concepts reflect the conditions public ...
Curtis Ventriss, Tina Nabatchi
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Moneta e Credito, 2019 Le organizzazioni criminali mafiose italiane ritengono centrale per la loro strategia criminale l’attività estorsiva, praticandola sia nei mercati legali che in quelli illegali.
Giacomo Di Gennaro
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“I Paid A Bribe”—Lessons and Insights From Crowdsourced Corruption Reporting in India
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Preventing and reducing corruption has proven to be an enormous challenge. An important step in this process is to produce and use good metrics to identify where anti‐corruption resources would be most beneficial. Most measures of corruption, however, rely on surveys of perceptions or bribery incidence.
Ina Kubbe +2 more
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In a systematic narrative review of 33 longitudinal corporate crime studies, we identify and describe corporate criminal career dimensions: participation, frequency, crime mix, and duration. Themes and patterns across data sources are assessed, including information collected that informs a corporate criminal career perspective and what ...
Marieke H. A. Kluin +3 more
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