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Turkish State Criminality against Kurds and Victimization through Impunity

open access: yesState Crime, 2022
This article explores the long-lasting effects of impunity on victims’ everyday lives. Drawing on Rojas Baeza’s medico-psychiatric definition of impunity, the article discusses how impunity creates different traumatic consequences in a victim’s life and ...
Sanya Karakas
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A Comparative Study of Impunity for Criminals in Iranian Law and International Documents; Cases and solutions [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهشنامه حقوق تطبیقی, 2020
The article seeks to enumerate the cases of impunity of offenders in Iranian law and international documents, and to examine ways to deal with it; Assuming that this phenomenon cannot be considered acceptable, we decided to state the cases of impunity in
Ali Mansour Lakouraj, asghar abbasi
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The politics of impunity: a study of journalists’ experiential accounts of impunity in Bulgaria, Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Mexico and Pakistan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Definitions of impunity regarding crimes against journalists have thus far been too narrow. Therefore we propose a new approach to understanding impunity as also being grounded in journalists’ lived reality and perceptions to better understand the ...
Alley R   +11 more
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Numbers of environmental injustice: The measurement of impunity in Mexico

open access: yesÍconos, 2022
The Global Environmental Impunity Index Mexico 2020 develops a methodology for measuring environmental impunity levels. Environmental impunity is defined through a thick approach following green criminology and refers to the lack of investigation ...
Juan Antonio Le Clercq, Celeste Cedillo
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More Offenders, More Crime: Estimating the Size of the Offender Population in a Latin American Setting

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2021
Research that has examined the high levels of crime experienced in Latin American settings has suggested that macrostructural variables (such as social inequality), and factors associated with development and institutional capacity, offer explanations ...
Spencer P. Chainey, Dennis L. Lazarus
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Homicide impunity in Brazil between 2006 and 2016

open access: yesRevista de Saúde Pública, 2020
OBJECTIVE To describe the level and temporal trends of homicide impunity in Brazil. METHODS This is an ecological study that calculated two impunity indexes by dividing the total number of homicides committed in a 5-year period by the number of ...
Felipe Souza Nery, Paulo Nadanovsky
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Passive government, organized crime, and massive deforestation: The case of western Mexico

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, 2021
The mountains of western Mexico contain one of the highest numbers of conifers and hardwood species for the country. The extraction of those species represents about 82% of the national timber production.
Carlos Ignacio García‐Jiménez   +1 more
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International Guidelines Against Impunity: Facilitating Accountability [PDF]

open access: yes, 1996
Reasons for a consistent pattern of compromise when it comes to impunity for international crimes and human rights violations are discussed.
Morris, Madeline H.
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Measuring Impunity in Latin America: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges

open access: yesÍconos, 2016
Impunity is increasingly being recognized as a phenomenon that is at once often both the cause and effect of some of the most serious problems in Latin America as well as in other parts of the world.
Juan Antonio Le Clercq   +2 more
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