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Serious, therefore organised? A critique of the emerging "cyber-organised crime" rhetoric in the United Kingdom [PDF]

, 2016
This paper, based on discourse analysis of policy documents, departs from a critique of the juxtaposition of the terms "serious" and "organised" in policies against organised crime in the UK.
Lavorgna, A, Sergi, A
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Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright, Irene Rizzini, Malibongwe Gwele, Lynn McNair, Cristina Laclette Porto, Marsha Orgill, E. Kay M. Tisdall, Malcolm Bush, Linda Biersteker   +8 more
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Organised crime and international aid subversion: evidence from Colombia and Afghanistan [PDF]

, 2015
Scholarly attempts to explain aid subversion in post-conflict contexts frame the challenge in terms of corrupt practices and transactions disconnected from local power struggles. Also, they assume a distinction between organised crime and the state. This
Ahmet A., Aikins M., Aranguren M., Batmanglich S., Berdal M., Boucher A. J., Brinkerhoff D. W., Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Working Group on Corruption and Security, Chayes S., Cheng C., Clunan A. L., Cockayne J., Cockayne J., Cordesman A. H., Cramer C., Cremer G., Cubides F., Denisa Kostovicova, Dorronsoro G., Dube O., Duncan G., Escobar M., Felbab Brown V., Felbab Brown V., Filkins D., Forsberg C., Gall C., Gastrow P., George A.L., Giustozzi A., Giustozzi A., Giustozzi A., González F., Goodhand J., Gutierrez F., Human Rights Watch (HRW), International Crisis Group (ICG), Jaramillo S., Jelena Bjelica, Kavanagh C., Kemp W., Kemp W., Lampe K., Maass C. D., MacDonald D., Mansfield D., Marat E., Mariana Escobar, Mashal M., Parsons J. J., Poole L., Rosen L., Schetter C., Shaw M., Singh D. G., Suhrke A., Thoumi T., Tierney J. F., United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic, Von Billerbeck S., Yin R. K.   +61 more
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Journey to crime of 'itinerant crime groups' [PDF]

, 2010
Purpose - Most researchers have found that property crimes have a local focus: offenders tend to operate in the vicinity of their residence. This has led the police to organise themselves to concentrate their resources in highly populated, urban areas ...
Van Daele, Stijn, Vander Beken, Tom
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The Politics of Euro-Balkan Police Cooperation in the 2000s

Contemporary Southeastern Europe, 2021
This article examines the political dynamics of Euro-Balkan police cooperation in the context of recent Balkan history. In the existing scholarship, the process of the ‘externalisation’ of EU-wide law enforcement cooperation outside the Union's ...
Kantokoski, Olga
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Organised crime

, 2017
This chapter describes the emerging focus on situational crime prevention related to organised crime, an area in which repression and a law enforcement approach have been dominant. It focuses on both the theoretical background and critical remarks and shows that applying situational crime prevention to organised crime is less easy than to ordinary ...
Kleemans, E.R., Soudijn, M.R.J.
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National Security vs Criminal law. Perspectives, Doubts and Concerns on the Criminalisation of Organised Crime in England and Wales [PDF]

, 2016
This paper will interpret and critically analyse the new offence for organised crime in England and Wales (Section 45 of the Serious Crime Act 2015) from a criminological perspective in light of evidence found in research in the country.
A Edwards, A Lavorgna, A Lavorgna, A Sergi, A Sergi, A Sergi, A Sergi, A Wright, Anna Sergi, AVM Leong, C Edwards, C Walker, C Walker, Cabinet Office, Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), D Bigo, D Hobbs, D Hobbs, D Hobbs, D Hobbs, D Hobbs, D Hobbs, D Ormerod, D Wall, E Kleemans, ER Kleemans, F Gregory, H Brayley, HA Committee, Home Office, Home Office, J Dietzler, J Jacobs, J Sheptycki, L Campbell, L Campbell, L Paoli, L Paoli, L Paoli, Law Commission, M Cancio Melià, M Levi, M Levi, M Maltz, M Woodiwiss, N Boister, P Campana, P Reuter, P Reuter, PC Duyne Van, R Broadhurst, R Goldstock, R Weitzer, S Mackenzie, T Makarenko, T Obokata, UNODC, UNODC, YC Chang   +58 more
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The Crime-Conflict Nexus and the Civil War in Syria

Stability : International Journal of Security and Development, 2017
There is a strong relationship between organised crime and civil war. This article contributes to the crime-conflict nexus literature by providing a consideration of the role of organised crime in the Syrian conflict.
Christina Steenkamp
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Extortion in the United Kingdom [PDF]

, 2015
Extortion racketeering has been long pointed out as the “defining activity of organised crime” (Konrad & Skaperdas, 1998). Although in recent years this crime has not been among the top listed organised crime threats in the strategic EU policy documents,
Baldovin A., Delange J., Masmano M., Puschner P., Schoeberl M., Schoeberl M., Schoeberl M., Thompson S.   +7 more
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Pickpocketing committed by mobile organised crime groups [PDF]

, 2017
This theoretical paper is published by the EUCPN Secretariat in connection with the theme of the Maltese Presidency. The Maltese Presidency, in line with the Trio’s subject of Organised Crime, focused on two topics, namely domestic burglaries and ...
Verleysen, Cindy
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