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Hidden power : the strategic logic of organized crime

open access: yes, 2016
What should we make of the outsized role organized crime plays in conflict and crisis, from drug wars in Mexico to human smuggling in North Africa, from the struggle in Crimea to scandals in Kabul?
Cockayne, James
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Organised crime and public sector corruption [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Foreword: In 2006, the Australian Government introduced the Anti-money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006 (Cth) which increased regulatory controls over businesses potentially able to facilitate organised criminal activities such as ...
Elizabeth Rowe   +3 more
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Defining Reconciliation Studies: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reconciliation studies (RS) has become increasingly influential in understanding alternative views to ending conflict and dealing with the aftermath. As a discipline or field, however, it is not well defined. The actual usefulness of reconciliation (as a concept), or of RS (as a discipline), is debated, and due to its growing usage, it is ...
Colleen Alena O’Brien
wiley   +1 more source

On the Interaction of Individual and Collective Crime [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper shows that increasing the sanction on collective crime may increase its prevalence. This situation arises when individuals can commit crimes both individually and as part of a collective.
Tim Friehe, Florian Baumann
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From Custom to Court: The Evolution of Mediation in European Legal Systems

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article traces how European mediation has repeatedly rebalanced three variables—(1) the source of mediator authority, (2) the degree of institutionalization, and (3) the operative meaning of voluntariness—from antiquity to the present. Using three periods—Proto‐Mediation (c. 500 BCE–c. 1750), Classical Mediation (c.
Viktoriia Hamaiunova
wiley   +1 more source

The Illicit Sale of Prescribed Opioid Medications in Edmonton

open access: yesPain Research and Management, 2005
Darcy Strang, Saifee Rashiq
doaj   +1 more source

Insufficient Study Of The Organized Crime As One Of The Reasons Of Its High Latency

open access: yesAstra Salvensis, 2019
Today there is no special research methodology, different from the studying of general crime, giving a full picture of the organized crime. Confrontation to the organized crime is possible only with condition of a clear idea about it, about the formation
Talgat AKIMZHANOV   +4 more
doaj  

Do CSR Committees Moderate the Relationship Between Democratic Societies and Firm Innovation? An International Overview

open access: yesCorporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to provide evidence of the impact of civil liberties and political rights on corporate innovation, through the lens of institutional theory. Moreover, the research also analyses the moderating role of the CSR committee in the relationships between civil liberties and innovation, and political rights and innovation.
Isabel Gallego‐Álvarez   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Theoretical And Legal Basis To Conception Of Organized Crime In Modern Conditions

open access: yesAstra Salvensis, 2019
Article considers questions of the definitions which are completely reflecting content by the form of crime, all-recognized by scientists and practicians, opening an essence of organized crime.
Talgat AKIMZHANOV   +4 more
doaj  

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