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Organized crime

, 2012
This work is about organized crime in Italy, specifically in Sicily. It focuses on it's history and connects it with social, economic and political development of the island as well as Italy itself.
Šembera, Kryštof
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The Determinants of Organized Crime : An Economic Analysis

Organized crime has become an increasing issue in Sweden, with a vast rise in violent gang activity in recent years. This study examines the economic and socioeconomic determinants of organized crime, focusing on non-titled, externally defined criminal networks - commonly denoted “street gangs”.
openaire   +1 more source

Righting Past Wrongs Through Restorative Justice: Managerial Motivations for Collaboration

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nonprofits are crucial to state collaborations as their embedded nature in communities allows them to gain the trust necessary to facilitate change and enhance strengths. As nonprofits collaborate with the public sector to tackle systemic challenges, understanding managerial motivations for collaboration and implications for social change is ...
Kara L. Lawrence, Nina R. Y. Blau, Paige L. Moore   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unstructured spare time as an international predictor of adolescent crime. [PDF]

PLoS One
Buil-Gil D, Birkbeck C, Enzmann D, Arbach K, Bazon MR, Budimlić M, Cooper DT, Dąbrowska M, Fernández-Molina E, Gentle-Genitty C, Grijalva-Eternod AE, Guzik-Makaruk EM, Haymoz S, Hazel N, Kaakinen M, Kivivuori J, Povh IK, Langeland CL, Manzoni P, Markina A, Meško G, Mišanović SK, Moeller K, Morillo-Puente S, Pocienė A, Podaná Z, Rodríguez JA, Valdimarsdottir M, Westfelt L, Marshall IH.   +29 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Economic Consequences of Organized Crime

, 2017
Summary This thesis deals with the significance of the threat that organized crime poses to society. The aim is to provide an overview of its present forms and economic impact.
Kunt, Lukáš
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Linking Environmental Health and Civic Health: An Analysis of Air Pollution and Charitable Giving

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the effect of air pollution on charitable giving. We suggest that the burdens associated with poor air quality are associated with a dampening of civic and philanthropic engagement. Analyzing 12 years of county‐level data from the United States with fixed‐effects OLS and instrumental variables regressions, we identify a ...
Gregory D. Saxton, Michelle Benson, Chao Guo, Daniel G. Neely, Tahmina Ahmed, Mohammad Maruf Hasan, Shujie Zhang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Changing the narrative: Socioeconomic determinants, not gun ownership, drive global homicide rates across 237 countries and territories. [PDF]

Dialogues Health
Kastle RA, Baxter S, Edomwande C, Cheng AL, Moncure M, Simpkins C.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Nonprofit Governance and Financial Stability: A Study of Government‐Funded Social Services

Nonprofit Management and Leadership, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nonprofit social service providers are essential in delivering vital services, often with public funding. This study adopts a contingency perspective to explore the relationship between organizational governance and financial stability in publicly funded nonprofit organizations. We use a combination of comparative multilevel analysis (CMA) and
Florentine Maier, Michael Meyer, Josef Baumüller, Christian Grünhaus, Franka Walde   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mitigating Health Disparities Through Empathetic Policymaking During Times of Crisis

Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The COVID‐19 pandemic greatly exacerbated the existing disparities and inequities in health and healthcare among historically marginalized populations. Today, these impacts still echo. These persistent structured inequities erode the public's trust in government, lead to failure in public policies, and result in worse health consequences ...
Yali Pang, Brittany Keegan, Robyn D. McDougle   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transnational Criminal Enterprise: a Qualitative Social Network Analysis of the Production and Trade in Falsified Medicines. [PDF]

Arch Eur Sociol
Hamill H.
europepmc   +1 more source