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OPINION: Maritime Crimes in the Gulf of Guinea: Trends, Gaps in Response, and Solutions

ABUAD Journal of the Humanities-AGIDIGBO
Catalysed by the Somali civil war and state fragility, piracy re-emerged in the Gulf of Aden around 2000. Originally formed to deter illegal foreign fishing, these Somali militias transitioned into a lucrative kidnapping-for-ransom enterprise.
Oluwafunmi AMAO, Olusegun Paul ADESANYA
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The Defence of Joint Illegal Enterprise

, 2010
In Smith v Jenkins (‘Smith’),1 the High Court recognised a defence of joint illegal enterprise to liability in the tort of negligence. It affirmed the existence of this defence in a series of cases, the most recent and important of which is Gala v ...
Dr James Goudkamp, Goudkamp, James
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Real-time anti-poaching tags could help prevent imminent species extinctions

, 2015
This research was funder by Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council - Grant Number: BB/G023913/2.At an estimated $7–10 billion annually, the global trade in illegal wildlife parts is comparable in economic value to human trafficking, and ...
O’Donoghue, Paul, Rutz, Christian
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Subordination of related party claims in insolvency: A suggestive framework for Asian regimes

International Insolvency Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Related party loans, due to their inherent nature, warrant a higher threshold for scrutiny when compared to loans extended by unrelated parties. Why were these monies advanced as loans, carrying higher priority in insolvency, rather than being invested as share capital?
Aditya Jain, Dhanya Jha, Rebecca Parry
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The economic dimensions of transnational organised crime in Southern and Western Africa

International Review of Social Sciences Research
This article explores the economic dimensions of transnational organised crime (TOC) in Africa, focusing on the Southern and Western regions. TOC in Africa, while driven by traditional motives such as power and financial gain, has evolved into a ...
Tolulope Lembola Ojolo, Shanta Balgobind Singh   +1 more
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Organized crime : policing illegal business entrepreneurialism

, 2010
Organized crime in the twenty-first century is a knowledge war that poses an incalculable global threat to the world economy and harm to society - the economic and social costs are estimated at upwards of L20 billion a year for the UK alone (SOCA 2006/7).
Dean, Geoff, Gottschalk, Petter, Fahsing, Ivar A.   +2 more
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Green swans and blue skies: Climate change and insolvency risk for financial institutions

International Insolvency Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This lecture in honour of the late Gabriel Moss QC and Ian Fletcher QC examines the challenge of climate‐related financial risk. Prudential regulators and central banks recognize that the systemic nature of climate‐related financial risk makes it an emerging vulnerability relevant to cross‐border insolvency resolution.
Janis Sarra
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FORENSIC ACCOUNTING AS SOLUTION ON ECONOMICS CRISIS OF FRAUD

Acta Economica, 2010
What have the contemporary accountants with a temporary financial and economic crisis? Is it possible that absence of effective legal, professional and ethical rules caused our economic crisis?
Изток Колар
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Against Dualism: Border Regimes, the International Order, and Domestic Social Relations

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this response to Will Kymlicka, I reflect upon whether dualist politics – a separation of the domestic and the international – hinders our understanding of how to create inclusive and solidaristic societies. Using the example of border regimes, I suggest that the structure of the international order, of which such regimes are part ...
Clara Sandelind
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mexicano en el siglo XXI Fragmentation, Failed Condition and Dispossession: the case of the Mexican State in the 21st century

Revista Kavilando, 2018
The concept of accumulation by dispossession orchestrated by criminal organizations is an ideal reflection to explain theft, fraud, depredation, pillage, punishment and enclosure of territories to force populations to cultivate drugs or to take ...
Odín Ávila
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