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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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Organised crime: the 21st century’s new security challenge
Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2015 Review of the Book: Andreopoulos, George (ed.). Policing Across Borders. Law enforcement Networks and the Challenges of Crime Control Springer, 2013, 183 págs.
Carlos Calderiña Pavón
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A web of harms: serious and organised crime and its impact on Australian interests [PDF]
Overview This report analyses serious, transnational and organised crime and the harms it causes to Australia’s interest, with the aim of reinvigorating a discussion of this critical matter amongst Australians.
Clare Murphy +2 more
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International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines the impact of regulatory controls on Bitcoin's excess returns and volatility. The paper innovates by proxying changes in the regulatory environment using global Google search volume intensity data. The generated regulatory indices accurately identify episodes of regulatory tightening within cryptocurrency markets.
Robert Mullings
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Book review: Financing of Organised Crime / Michael Levi, Ognian Shentov and Boyko Todorov (eds.)
, 2015 Predrag Bejaković
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Organized Crime: A Very Short IntroductionG.A.Antonopoulos and G.Papanicolaou. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2018) 132pp. £7.99pb ISBN 978‐0‐198‐79554‐4Redefining Organised Crime: A Challenge for the European UnionS.Carnevale, S.Forlati and O.Giolo (Eds.). Oxford: Hart (2017) 394pp. £80.00hb ISBN 978‐1‐509‐90470‐9 [PDF]
, 2018 Vincenzo Ruggiero
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Fragile States, Robust Structures: Illegal Police Protection in Buenos Aires [PDF]
Weakness is a quality frequently ascribed to Latin American states. This diagnosis proves faulty since it is possible to find resistant structures inside those states that perpetuate such weaknesses. This article shows that this is the case in regards to
Matías Dewey
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Induced abortion in the world: 2. Present views on pregnancy termination
International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.Abstract Abortion was practiced in most cultures for millennia, but was often disapproved and banned. The 20th century witnessed a progressive conditional legalization, often with limitations for the duration of pregnancy. Legalizing abortion was driven by multiple factors, including a desire to limit population growth, the emergence of movements that ...
Giuseppe Benagiano +4 more
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