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The Smuggling of Tobacco Products in Europe: Criminogenic Potential Capacity

Baltic Journal of Law & Politics, 2019
The article sets out the results of a research of the criminogenic potential capacity of cigarette smuggling. The article provides an analysis of the criminological connotation of the criminogenic potential capacity of tobacco products smuggling and ...
Filippov Stanislav
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Crossing America’s Borders: Chinese Immigrants in the Southwesterns of the 1920s and 1930s [PDF]

, 2017
Today, when we think of the film Western, we think of a genre dominated by Anglo-American heroes conquering the various struggles and obstacles that the nineteenth-century frontier presented to settlers and gunslingers alike—from the daunting terrain and
Gates, Philippa
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Why Should we Worry about Nigeria's Fragile Security?

The Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the multifaceted implications of Nigeria's persistent security crisis, highlighting its domestic, regional and global consequences. It examines the humanitarian toll, economic disruption, poverty, food insecurity and the erosion of social cohesion within Nigeria. Regionally, it analyses how Nigeria's instability exacerbates
Onyedikachi Madueke
wiley   +1 more source

Decision Evolution and Governance Optimization in Duty-Free Quota Abuse Smuggling: A Multi-Agent Risk Avoidance Perspective

Mathematics
The pervasive misuse of Duty-Free Quota Abuse Smuggling has seriously undermined fiscal and market order. This study breaks through the traditional model’s assumption of complete rationality and establishes a Multi-Phase Dynamic Decision-Making Model for
Yuqing Guo, Mengjie Liao, Jian Zhang, Yuan Ni   +3 more
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Investigation System Reform in Settling Smuggling Crime

SHS Web of Conferences, 2018
Indonesia has governed smuggling crime in the provisions of Articles 102, 102A and 102B of Law Number 17 of 2006 about the Amendment to Law Number 10 of 1995 about customs. To lower the smuggling rate, sanction reformulation is required in the attempt of
Ramadhani Deaf Wahyuni, Supanto, Hartiwiningsih   +2 more
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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
wiley   +1 more source

Winston Churchill and France: A Certain Ideal

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines relations between Winston Churchill and France. It argues that Churchill was sympathetic to France and, in particular, unusual among Englishmen of his generation in being sympathetic to its political system, but also that this sympathy did not make Churchill consistent in his relations with France.
Richard Vinen
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Import Smuggling in the Philippines: An Economic Analysis [PDF]

This study attempts to generate an estimate of import smuggling using Philippine data on import trade. Through the development of microeconomic model, it tries to explain the level of smuggling activity in terms of factors impinging on the trader’s ...
Alano, Bienvenido Jr. P.
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
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Pass‐Through of Cocoa Prices Along the Supply Chain: What's Left for Farmers in Côte d'Ivoire?

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Most cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire are trapped in a cycle of poverty and farming practices that degrade the environment. This paper aims to provide an in‐depth understanding of the price formation process for cocoa at each stage of the supply chain in the world's largest cocoa‐producing country.
Kathrin Kaestner, Gunther Bensch, Colin Vance   +2 more
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