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From Custom to Court: The Evolution of Mediation in European Legal Systems
Conflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article traces how European mediation has repeatedly rebalanced three variables—(1) the source of mediator authority, (2) the degree of institutionalization, and (3) the operative meaning of voluntariness—from antiquity to the present. Using three periods—Proto‐Mediation (c. 500 BCE–c. 1750), Classical Mediation (c.
Viktoriia Hamaiunova
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Crime Distribution & Victim Behavior During a Crime Wave [PDF]
The study of how crime affects different income groups faces several difficulties. The first is that crime-avoiding activities vary across income groups.
Rafael Di Tella +2 more
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to provide evidence of the impact of civil liberties and political rights on corporate innovation, through the lens of institutional theory. Moreover, the research also analyses the moderating role of the CSR committee in the relationships between civil liberties and innovation, and political rights and innovation.
Isabel Gallego‐Álvarez +1 more
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FEAR OF CRIME IN ISTANBUL CITY CENTER [PDF]
The mapping of crime and delinquency has been around for many years and the idea that delinquency is caused by environmental factors has long been debated.
Nilgun Ergun, Funda Yirmibesoglu
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Entering the black hole: the Taliban, terrorism, and organised crime
, 2014 Cooperation and imitation among crime and terror groups in recent years has given rise to a crime-terror nexus. A linear conceptualisation of a crime-terror spectrum, suggests that complete convergence of crime and terror in a failed state can give rise ...
Phillips, Matthew D., Kamen, Emily A.
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Ethical Behaviour and Corporate Financing. The Case of ‘Legality Rating’
Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The financial crisis has heightened awareness of ethical and legal issues in the business context. Corporate ethical behaviour is increasingly measured through sustainability ratings. Since 2012, in Italy, the introduction of a sustainability rating, namely the legality rating (LR), has served as an innovative ‘label’ for socially responsible ...
Federica Doni +3 more
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Teen Births Keep American Crime High [PDF]
The United States has a teenage birth rate that is high relative to that of other developed countries, and falling more slowly. Children of teenagers may experience difficult childhoods and hence be more likely to commit crimes subsequently.
Jennifer Hunt
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International crime survey, 1989
, 2007 The international crime survey 1989 was intended to supply comparative data for 14 countries on crime and victimization Victim of: theft of-from vehicles/ vandalism/ robbery/ pickpocketing/ thefts/ sexual harassment or violence/ assault / frequency of ...
Dijk, J.J.M. van, Ministerie van justitie * Den Haag, Wetenschappelijk onderzoek- en documentatiecentrum, WODC, Mayhew, P., Research and planning Unit Home Office * n/a, Killias, M., University of Lausanne * Lausanne, Switzerland (primary investigator)
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using an integrated framework that combines the natural resource‐based view with contingency theory, this study examines how environmental management control systems (EMCS) build multinational firms' environmental capabilities and balance their environmental and economic performance while accounting for cross‐country contextual conditions.
Kimitaka Nishitani +4 more
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Understanding international crime trends: The legacy of preschool lead exposure
This study shows a very strong association between preschool blood lead and subsequent crime rate trends over several decades in the USA, Britain, Canada, France, Australia, Finland, Italy, West Germany, and New Zealand. The relationship is characterized
Nevin, Rick
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