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Colombia elites and organized crime [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Colombia's elite has always been made up predominantly of Colombian nationals. The country's economic and political elites overlap to a large extent, and the wealthy exert political power.

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Material Deprivation, Psychological Distress, and Substance Use Among Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Adolescents: The Mediating Roles of Social Relationships

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Previous research on the mediating role of the quality of social relationships between material deprivation and adolescent health has predominantly utilized samples from mainstream populations to examine mental health outcomes, neglecting the critical need to explore behavioral health outcomes, such as substance use, particularly in ...
Zewei Liu, Ji‐Kang Chen
wiley   +1 more source

Losing the Monopoly of Violence: The State, a Drug War and the Paramilitarization of Organized Crime in Mexico (2007–10)

open access: yesState Crime, 2015
This article examines the phenomenon of drug-related violence in Mexico and the causal factors that enabled the upsurge in the numbers of drug-related homicides during the period 2007–10 — the first 4 years of the so-called “war on drugs”.
Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Tree of Life Synagogue Attack: A Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol‐18 Examination of Pre‐Attack Warnings and Post‐Attack Contagion and Copycat Effects

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This is a retrospective case study of an antisemitic lone actor terrorist who completed the deadliest attack against the Jewish community in American history. The analysis through the lens of the Terrorist Radicalization Assessment Protocol (TRAP‐18) finds that 72% of the warning indicators were present, including four proximal warning ...
Molly Amman, Julia Kupper, J. Reid Meloy
wiley   +1 more source

Crime and Prices [PDF]

open access: yes
The impact of organized crime on inter-regional price disparities in Russia is estimated for each year from 1992 to 2000, and over the panel of 1993-2000, using a sample of 70 Russian regions, and that of 50 regions from the European part of the country.
Gluschenko, Konstantin
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Modern socio–economic organized crime

open access: yes, 2009
Defining organized crime is not easy because it is continually changing; altering its activities and methods to the prevailing social conditions. Statistics obtained by the Polish Central Bureau of Investigation show the number of groups responsible ...
Jaroch, Waldemar
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Measuring Consumer Aversion Toward AI in Marketing Communication and Assessing Its Relationship to Brand Perceptions and Purchase Intention

open access: yesJournal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Some consumers exhibit aversion toward artificial intelligence (AI), particularly when it is embedded in persuasive marketing communication (MarCom). Here, we developed and validated a measure of consumer aversion to AI in MarCom and examined its downstream consequences for brand perceptions and purchase intention.
Louvins Pierre   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Regional cooperation against transnational organized crime: challenges and opportunities in the Western Hemisphere

open access: yesFrontiers in Political Science
Transnational Organized Crime represents a critical threat to the political, economic, and social stability of the Western Hemisphere. This article analyses the dynamics of the criminal organizations that constitute this phenomenon, including their ...
Jaime Cubides-Cardenas   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Political Psychology Behind Consumer Decisions: The Complex Relationship Between Political Ideology and Political Consumerism

open access: yesJournal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Political consumerism (PC) refers to consumers boycotting or deliberately buying (“buycotting”) products or brands for political, moral, or ethical reasons. This paper presents three studies that consider the intricacies of the relationship between political ideology and political consumerism.
Lara J. Greening   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

CRIMA ORGANIZATĂ TRANSNAŢIONALĂ – PERICOL REAL PENTRU ECONOMIA NAŢIONALĂ

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Moldaviae: Stiinte Sociale, 2008
Following the growing public interest, national government interest or international corps interest for the transnational organized crime cases, this article introduces us in the most spreading areas of the phenomena.
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