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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Marketplaces, crucial sites for low‐income populations as sources of affordable goods and social interaction, are at a critical juncture. They are experiencing decline due to the rise of shopping centres and neglect by public authorities, while at the same time being rediscovered as tourist attractions, sources of profit and tools for urban ...
Francesca Ru
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Tax Crimes as Criminal Acts previous to the Crime of Money Laundering
Revista Facultad de Jurisprudencia, 2018 For Latin American countries, the character of a “prior crimes” of tax crimes has become relevant, representing one of the main criminal acts that provide the basis for money laundering. This document explores the implications (weaknesses to be overcome) of this specific legal scenario for the development and strengthening of the criminal justice ...
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract Foregrounding the role of finance, this article examines the historical production and future trajectory of the urban water crisis in Mombasa. Drawing on archival research and contemporary fieldwork, it traces how principles of full cost recovery—institutionalized during the colonial period and later reworked through postcolonial ...
Joe Williams
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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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TAX EVASION IN ROMANIA - THE INFLUENCE OF THE VAT GAP ON THE DEGREE OF TAX REVENUE COLLECTION [PDF]
Analele Universităţii Constantin Brâncuşi din Târgu Jiu : Seria EconomieCurrently, tax evasion is the most important component of the mechanism of economic-financial crime, and the EU space is faced with an impressive dynamic of the export and import of economic crime, combating this phenomenon becoming the primary goal ...
GUIU MARIAN-ROMEO
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Taking Stock: Elite Studies and Social Change
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article provides a systematic synthesis of contemporary elite sociology through the analytical lens of change and stability. We distinguish between two types of change: change within elites, referring to transformations in elite composition, circulation, or internal characteristics; and change by elites, designating processes whereby ...
Lena Ajdacic +13 more
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Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics”
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordinary citizens become heated; why certain issues provoke particularly strong emotions; and how this affective potential is weaponized by ...
Linus Westheuser +2 more
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The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article connects cultural taste to capitalist mechanisms of redistribution through the concept of political economy of taste. Building on Bourdieusian scholarship on recognition struggles and drawing on Mike Savage and Nancy Fraser, it examines how public performances of taste reshape representations of working‐class culture and how these
Simone Varriale
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Análisis crítico de la política criminal y del tipo de injusto del delito fiscal en el perú
Thēmis, 2013 In Peru, successive governments have designed their tax collection policy on the basis of the formal sector without addressing the issue of the informal sector, because of the lack of a plan on criminal tax policy.
Roger Yon Ruesta +1 more
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Opportunities and Alliances: The Relational Dynamics of Criminal Collusion in Latin America
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Mexico and judicial wiretap analysis in Argentina, this paper shows that collusion between state actors and violent non‐state actors operates through fluid and competitive relational networks rather than stable hierarchies or fixed institutional arrangements.
Eldad J. Levy, Javier Auyero
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