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More Amazon than Mafia: analysing a DDoS stresser service as organised cybercrime
Trends in Organized Crime, 2020 The internet mafia trope has shaped our knowledge about organised crime groups online, yet the evidence is largely speculative and the logic often flawed.
Roberto Musotto, D. Wall
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Psychology &Marketing, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Mystery deals, a marketing tactic used to boost sales, involve withholding the exact version of the product a customer will receive until after purchase. While prior research has examined consumers' pre‐purchase reactions to mystery deals, their post‐purchase responses remain underexplored.
Florian Brodschelm +4 more
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Coevolutionary interactions between farmers and mafia induce host acceptance of avian brood parasites [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Brood parasites exploit their host in order to increase their own fitness. Typically, this results in an arms race between parasite trickery and host defence. Thus, it is puzzling to observe hosts that accept parasitism without any resistance. The ‘mafia’
Maria Abou Chakra +2 more
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Buchanan and the Social Contract: Coordination Failures and the Atrophy of Property Rights
Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT James Buchanan advocated that societies should be based on a social contract. He rejected anarchy, seeing it as a “Hobbesian jungle” that calls for government intervention to maintain social order. He also opposed theories of spontaneous order. These views led to debates about the compatibility of Buchanan's works with classical liberalism and
Stefano Dughera, Alain Marciano
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Jurnal USM Law ReviewThe purpose of this study is to find solutions to prevent and eradicate land mafia in Indonesia. This is because the practice of land mafia in Indonesia has been going on for a long time, and is very worrying and detrimental to the state and society. The
Yusuf Saepul Zamil +4 more
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A proposito di Mafia Capitale. Spunti per tipizzare il fenomeno mafioso nei sistemi di common law
Rivista di studi e ricerche sulla criminalità organizzata, 2016 Il presente articolo si può intendere come una continuazione del dibattito su Mafia Capitale iniziato sul II numero di questa rivista da Nando Dalla Chiesa.
Anna Sergi
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Tabula : periodicus Facultatis philosophicae Polensis; rivista della Facoltà di lettere e filosofia; Journal od the Faculty of Humanities, 2011 Data la confusione venutasi a creare nel corso della storia passata e recente, si propone uno studio incentrato sulla questione relativa al termine "mafia". Contrariamente a quanto si potrebbe immaginare, "mafia" oggi è un termine polisemico che non significa solo criminalità organizzata o stragi ma anche lealtà, giustizia, coraggio, potere, intrigo ...
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Racket sociality: investigating intimidation in North India
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article is an ethnographic investigation into acts of intimidation and threats. Theoretically, it dialogues with ‘racket’ – a key analytical term in the sociology of domination, state‐making, and mafias. The anthropology of power, violence, and crime has paid scant attention to the morphology of threats and the ways interpersonal intimidation ...
Lucia Michelutti
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Cahiers de Narratologie, 2019 Le Parrain et Le Parrain II de Francis Ford Coppola constituent l’une des principales sources d’information sur la mafia dont disposent les spectateurs du monde entier.
Rosario Giovanni Scalia
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New record extends the northern limit of distribution of Scytalopus petrophilus (Passeriformes: Rhinocryptidae) in the Espinhaço Range, Minas Gerais, Brazil [PDF]
Check List, 2015 I recorded an individual of Rock Tapaculo (Scytalopus petrophilus) on 15 October 2010, in a rocky outcrop (campo rupestre) formation at Sempre-Vivas National Park, at Bocaiúva municipality, northern Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Pedro Mafia
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