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Huachicoleros: Criminal Cartels, Fuel Theft, and Violence in Mexico
Journal of Strategic Security, 2019 Criminal cartels and gangs dominate the illicit economy in Mexico. These organized crime groups challenge the solvency (specifically capacity and legitimacy) of the state in Mexico. Organized crime in Mexico is involved in a range of activities including
Nathan Jones, John Sullivan
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The Impossible Mission: Global Justice Movement against Transnational Organized Crime [PDF]
, 2012 This article argues that the best counterattack against globally oriented transnational organized crime (TOC) is by a global response. The contribution of participating states and the creation of a collective identity against TOC are both necessary. This
CAYLI, BARIS
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‘Where are the adults?’: Troubling child‐activism and children's political participation
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Children's political participation is a well‐established theme in childhood studies. In this article we offer an original account of child activism that takes into account the entangled and emergent aspect of children as activists. We begin with a historical and a conceptual review, noting the importance of mid‐20th century developments such ...
Sharon Hunter, Claire Cassidy
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On ‘Organized Crime’ in the illicit antiquities trade: moving beyond the definitional debate [PDF]
, 2013 The extent to which ‘organized crime’ is involved in illicit antiquities trafficking is unknown and frequently debated. This paper explores the significance and scale of the illicit antiquities trade as a unique transnational criminal phenomenon that is ...
AV Orlova +24 more
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Can boarding schools help looked after and vulnerable children improve academic attainment?
British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The education of children in statutory care, or at the edge of care, is a serious concern for governments and policymakers. How to promote educational opportunities for these children can involve challenging and often contentious proposals. In this paper, we study one proposal put into practice in England: the provision to children who are in ...
David Murphy +2 more
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Aspekti Publìčnogo Upravlìnnâ, 2019 The article deals with the main problems of the establishment of international cooperation in combating organized crime in Ukraine. The state of the legislative base, the positive and negative dynamics of implementation of the reforms proclaimed in the ...
A. A. Poplavsky
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The Problem of Organized Crime in the South American Tri-Border Area: Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina
International Studies: Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal, 2020 The paper shows mechanisms and manifestations of the challenges for the security in the South American Tri-Border Area (Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina).
Stanisław Kosmynka
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Trust and In-Group Favoritism in a Culture of Crime [PDF]
, 2014 We use experiments in high schools in two neighborhoods in the metropolitan area of Palermo, Italy to experimentally demonstrate that the historical informal institution of organized crime can undermine current institutions, even in religiously and ...
Meier, Stephan +2 more
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British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.Abstract This paper critically analyses how school readiness has been historically and discursively constructed in Early Childhood Education (ECE) policy in England over the past four decades. Using Bacchi's ‘What's the Problem Represented to be?’ framework and Foucauldian concepts of governmentality, the paper explores how school readiness has shifted
Louise Kay
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O crime organizado em Portugal: sua caraterização e ambiguidades [PDF]
, 2013 O estudo do crime organizado é uma preocupação crescente na Europa e nomundo. No entanto, em Portugal pouco ou nada se fala dele ainda que muitas das nossaspolíticas de segurança sejam moldadas pelo risco e ameaça deste fenómeno.
Ana Alexandra Silva Gonçalves
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