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Organized Crime, Corruption, and Economic Growth

Journal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 535-560, March 2025.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we study the relationship between organized crime, corruption, and economic growth on a data set from Italian regions for the period 1996–2013. Our working hypothesis is that organized crime can embezzle part of the public expenditure aimed at productive uses by threatening and bribing public officers. To assess the consequences
Tamara Fioroni, Andrea Mario Lavezzi, Giovanni Trovato   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Post-housing first outcomes amongst a cohort of formerly homeless youth in Aotearoa New Zealand. [PDF]

J R Soc N Z, 2023
Fraser B, Chun S, Pehi T, Jiang T, Johnson E, Ombler J, McMinn C, Pierse N.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Local News Deserts and Community Social Capital Erosion

Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The disappearance of local newspapers across the United States has sparked growing concern about its implications for community life in rural America. This study examines the societal consequences of local news deserts, focusing on three critical dimensions of community social capital: crime, civic engagement, and political polarization. Using
Tess Haddock, K. Aleks Schaefer, Brian E. Whitacre, Trey Malone   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Long term outcomes and causal modelling of compulsory inpatient and outpatient mental health care using Norwegian registry data: Protocol for a controversies in psychiatry research project. [PDF]

Int J Methods Psychiatr Res, 2023
Hofstad T, Nyttingnes O, Markussen S, Johnsen E, Killackey E, McDaid D, Rinaldi M, Dean K, Brinchmann B, Douglas K, Gröning L, Bjørkly S, Palmstierna T, Strømme MF, Blindheim A, Rugkåsa J, Hofmann BM, Pedersen R, Widding-Havneraas T, Rypdal K, Mykletun A.   +20 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Ne bis in idem and Tax Offences: How Belgium Adapted its Legislation to the Recent Case Law of the ECtHR and the CJEU [PDF]

, 2019
Francis Desterbeck
openalex   +1 more source

MONEY LAUNDERING ON THE BACKGROUND OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS - A ROMANIAN REALITY [PDF]

The purpose of most illegal activities (especially those in the economic field), whether illegal as specific to organized crime networks (cigarette smuggling, alcohol; traffic of weapons, nuclear material, drugs, human beings; trade in protected species ...
Iulian Gheorghe Ionita
core  

Public health impacts of legalizing recreational cannabis use in Canada and the US. [PDF]

World Psychiatry
Hall W, Fischer B.
europepmc   +1 more source

Characteristics of Sexual Homicide Offenders Focusing on Child Victims: A Review of the Literature. [PDF]

Trauma Violence Abuse, 2023
Page J, Tzani-Pepelasi K, Gavin H.
europepmc   +1 more source

A Review of Money Laundering Literature: The State of Research in Key Areas [PDF]

, 2020
Tiwari, Milind, Gepp, Adrian, Kumar, Kuldeep   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Do Intoxicated Offenders Deserve Harsher Sentences? Questioning Veritas in Vino

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Criminal courts increasingly treat intoxication as an aggravating rather than a mitigating factor in sentencing. This shift, seen in Australian law and other jurisdictions, raises the prospect of unjust outcomes. We examine this trend through the lens of desert‐based justifications for punishment, setting aside questions of deterrence and ...
Mary Jean Walker, Daniel B. Cohen
wiley   +1 more source