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Theorising and illustrating plural policing models in countering armed banditry as hybrid terrorism in northwest Nigeria

Cogent Social Sciences, 2023
Banditry constitutes about 40% of national insecurity in Nigeria. It is a composite crime manifesting in wanton killing, cattle rustling, kidnapping for ransom, levying of illegal tax on farming communities, sexual violence and trafficking of arms and ...
Oluwole Ojewale
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Illicit Economies and Urban Peace: Introduction to the Special issue

Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2021
The Special Issue proposes ‘urban peace’ as a way of thinking about policy responses to the dynamics of crime, violence, and exclusion that are associated with illicit economies.
Achim Wennmann, John Collins, Tuesday Reitano   +2 more
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Colombia, the Drug Wars and the Politics of Drug Policy Displacement – from La Violencia to UNGASS 2016

Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2021
This article breaks new conceptual ground by questioning orthodox interpretations of nation state agency in the global drug wars. Specifically, it challenges the David vs.
John Collins, Karen Torres Alarcón
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Ethnic profiling of organised crime? A tendency of mafia-cation in the Netherlands

Trends in Organized Crime, 2023
This article will explore how the current narratives (and corresponding changes) in Dutch organised crime policing relate to ethnic profiling of minorities in the Netherlands.
Yarin Eski, Anna Sergi
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CORRUPTION PREVENTION IN UKRAINE THROUGH THE PRISM OF ELITE MENTALITY

Baltic Journal of Economic Studies, 2023
The article considers the problem of corruption prevention from the perspective of the elite mentality and proves the necessity of cultivating a national anti-corruption culture in Ukraine.
Оlena Busol, Bogdan Romanyk
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Organised Crime and the ecosystems of sexual exploitation in the United Kingdom: How supply and demand generate sexual exploitation and protection from prosecution

Trends in Organized Crime, 2023
Thinking about organised crime as an ecosystem is not only novel but also offers much potential to add to the theoretical and policy-based literature in this area.
Matt Hopkins, Rachel Keighley, Teela Sanders   +2 more
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The Geopolitical Context of Migrant Routes and Its Impact on Organised Crime in the Republic of North Macedonia

International Studies: Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal, 2022
As a country with a specific geopolitical and geostrategic position, North Macedonia, positioned in the centre of the Balkan Peninsula, is subject to illegal migration and is located at the crossroads of migrant routes leading from Asia and Africa to ...
Toni Mileski, Daniela Pacemska
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Violence, Terrorism, and Identity Politics in Afghanistan: The Securitisation of Higher Education

Social Sciences, 2021
This article investigates the securitisation of the higher education sector in Afghanistan by examining ‘hidden’ non-discursive practices as opposed to overt discursive threat construction.
Christian Kaunert, Arif Sahar
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Reconceptualising organised (cyber)crime: The case of ransomware

Journal of Criminology, 2023
The concept of organised cybercrime has been the subject of much debate over the last decade. Many researchers who have applied scholarly definitions of organised crime to cyber-criminal groups have concluded that such groups are not “organised criminal ...
Chad Whelan, David Bright, James Martin
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Snakehead: the extent to which Chinese organised crime groups are involved in human smuggling from China to the UK

Trends in Organized Crime, 2022
With human smuggling, trafficking and associated areas such as modern slavery consistently in the news over the past decade governments have established and reinforced a narrative whereby evil organised criminals are responsible for driving the numbers ...
J. Whittle
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