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The difficulties of determining the notion of organized crime [PDF]

Temida, 2004
The author emphasizes the most significant difficulties and disagreements in determining the notion of organized crime, which, on one hand, come as a result of a complexity and dynamism of a contemporary organized crime, and on the other hand, may lead ...
Mrvić-Petrović Nataša
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A community‐driven approach to address substance use and create a Great Plains American Indian addiction and recovery research agenda

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Substance use, specifically opioid and methamphetamine use, is of increasing concern among American Indian (AI) populations in the Great Plains. This community‐driven participatory study investigated the impacts of substance use and community‐defined needs in treating addiction.
Brynn Luger, Anna Kihlström, Brinda Sivaramakrishnan, Allison Kelliher, Frankie Kropp, Carmen Rosa, T. John Winhusen, Donald Warne, the CTN0129 participating Tribal communities   +8 more
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An empirical analysis of organized crime, corruption and economic growth [PDF]

, 2017
In a companion study, Blackburn et al. (Econ Theory Bull, 2017), we have developed a theoretical framework for studying interactions between organized crime and corruption, with the view of examining the combined effects of these phenomena on economic ...
A Asmundo, A Liberto Di, A Monte Del, A Monte Del, AL Mazzitelli, BS Sergi, C Ahlin, C Detotto, F Windmeijer, G Becker, J Benhabib, JD Sachs, JJ Chang, Keith Blackburn, Kyriakos C. Neanidis, L Angeles, L Hansen, M Arellano, M Polinsky, Maria Paola Rana, P Fajnzylber, R Bowles, R Levine, R Soares, RJ Barro, V Daniele, Z MacDonald   +26 more
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“Will you be there for me?” Social support from family and friends during cold case sexual assault prosecutions

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract If sexual assault survivors report the assault to the criminal legal system, they often need informal support from family and friends throughout the long and frequently retraumatizing process of investigation and prosecution. This study is part of a long‐term community‐based participatory action research project in a predominately Black ...
Rebecca Campbell, Rachael Goodman‐Williams, Katie Gregory, McKenzie Javorka, Jasmine Engleton   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Weak Role of Prosecutors in Designating Justice Collaborators in Indonesia

International Journal of Islamic Education, Research and Multiculturalism, 2023
Crime is a phenomenon that has infiltrated into communal life. One type of crime resulting from this development is criminal activities carried out in collusion or groups, meticulously planned, and referred to as organized crime.
Nugraha Ardi Setiawan, Setiawan Noerdajasakti, Faizin Sulistio   +2 more
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Mental health service use among Filipino American and Korean American young adults during the COVID‐19 pandemic

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite the heightened mental health challenges amid rising Anti‐Asian sentiment, Asian Americans have significantly underutilized mental health services, a trend that persisted even before the COVID‐19 pandemic. Although considerable efforts have been made to understand how various factors are related to mental health service use in this ...
Michael Park, Eunseok Jeong, Nari Yoo, Yoonsun Choi, Leopoldo J. Cabassa, Miwa Yasui, David Takeuchi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Somewhere We Can Call Home and…Be Normal’: Findings From the Justice Housing Programme Evaluation

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The relationship between homelessness or unstable housing and reincarceration is well documented. The initial month after a person is released from custody is a period of particular vulnerability, with an increased risk of homelessness and return to prison.
Helen Taylor, Lorana Bartels
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Consequences of organized crime for national security [PDF]

Војно дело, 2016
Organized crime is one of the greatest threats to modern civilization, which increasingly tends to assume global significance and threaten human survival, economy, economic and financial systems, the environment, as well as the achievements and values of
Đukić Stanimir
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The Drug Problem and Organized Crime, Illicit Financial Flows, Corruption and Terrorism [PDF]

, 2017
An estimated quarter of a billion people, or around 5 per cent of the global adult population, used drugs at least once in 2015. Even more worrisome is the fact that about 29.5 million of those drug users, or 0.6 per cent of the global adult population ...

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Examining the Impact of Domestic and Family Violence on Young Australians’ School‐Level Education

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian policy and practice increasingly acknowledges the need to respond to children as victim‐survivors of domestic and family violence (DFV) in their own right. As part of this, and in recognition that schools often have the most consistent contact with young people experiencing DFV, there is mounting recognition of the role education ...
Rebecca Stewart, Kate Fitz‐Gibbon, Steven Roberts   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source