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Organized crime, the quality of local institutions and FDI in Italy: A panel data analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This paper examines the impact of crime on foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows in the Italian provinces. The incidence of organized crime is measured by the number of complaints regarding criminal offences of different kinds traditionally related ...
MARANI, UGO, V. Daniele
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Fetal Pain Perception: Legislative Assertions and Developmental Neuroscience

open access: yesAnnals of the Child Neurology Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pain perception is a conscious experience, but neither pain nor consciousness is defined in the developing human fetus. Emergent consciousness may be regarded as a phenomenon that ultimately arises from an essential minimum of functional neuronal connectivity. Proposed U.S.
William D. Graf   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

The relation between organized crime in criminal law point of view and complicity [PDF]

open access: yesNBP: Nauka, bezbednost, policija, 2014
In the article there are explanations between organized crime in criminal law point of view and complicity in criminal offence. Author explains existence of three forms of basic criminal law aspects of organized crime: 1) notion of organized criminal ...
Škulić Milan
doaj  

Sudan at War With Itself: Civilian Devastation in the Civil War

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A civil war is raging in Sudan between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) along with militia groups. Beginning on April 15, 2023, and continuing at least to this writing (October 15, 2025), civilian noncombatants have been subjected to bombings, beatings, torture, shootings, rape, and murder on a large scale. Since
Daniel Rothbart   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crime and Poverty: Evidence from a Natural Experiment [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper investigates the relationship between poverty and crime. Following a disputed presidential election, fuel supply to the highlands of Madagascar was severely curtailed in early 2002, resulring in a massive - if temporary - increase in poverty ...
Bart Minten, Marcel Fafchamps
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The New Mafia: Vladimir Putin's Inner Circle and Russian Organized Crime [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The purpose of this project was to show the relationship between organized crime and members of Vladimir Putin’s inner circle and the impact of the crossover of organized crime tactics and behavior to officials of the Russian government.
Trummer, India
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National Identity Meaning and Attitudes Toward War, Peace, and the Future of Ukraine

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The link between attitudes and social identity is complex, influencing perceptions, motivations, and actions. Social psychological research mainly focused on the role of attitude in identity formation, particularly in the contexts of social movements and collective action.
Karina V. Korostelina   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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