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New Dynamics, New Opportunities: Trends in Organised Crime in Ukraine After Russia’s Invasion
LSE Public Policy Review, 2023 Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 reshaped the way organised crime operated within Ukraine and how it interacted with criminal interests in other countries, disrupting some forms of illicit business and generating new ...
Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
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Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2022 This essay introduces the concept of environmental crime in its multiple forms and highlights the ways both the crimes themselves and related legislations compound existing vulnerabilities and generate new ones within communities, most often in the so ...
Virginia Comolli, Alastair MacBeath
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Illicit Economies and Urban Peace: Introduction to the Special issue
Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2021 The Special Issue proposes ‘urban peace’ as a way of thinking about policy responses to the dynamics of crime, violence, and exclusion that are associated with illicit economies.
Achim Wennmann +2 more
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Combating Sex Trafficking: The Role of the Hotel—Moral and Ethical Questions
Religions, 2022 Legitimate companies are key facilitators of human trafficking. These corporate facilitators include not only websites providing advertisements for commercial sex services but also hotels and motels.
Chu-Chuan Jeng +3 more
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Urban Resources and Their Linkage to Political Agendas for Armed Groups in Cities
Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2021 Rapid urbanisation in countries undergoing or recovering from armed conflict has imposed severe strain on public services and governance. It has also been accompanied by increasing policy and academic concern about the vulnerability of cities to armed ...
Antônio Sampaio
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The geopolitical vision of the transnational outer space organization and its impact on fragile states (Iraq after the American in 2003 as a model) [PDF]
مجلة جامعة الأنبار للعلوم الإنسانية, 2022 The current research started from problems identified about the impact of the geopolitical dimension on the spread of transnational organized crime in the era of globalization, and does the fragile geopolitical environment have a conducive effect on its ...
Wedad Hammad Mekhlif
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Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2021 UNTOC created a legally binding instrument governing international cooperation between law enforcement and judicial authorities to share evidence and pursue international criminal actors, and a framework for countries to update their legislation to be ...
Ian Tennant
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Cogent Social Sciences, 2023 Banditry constitutes about 40% of national insecurity in Nigeria. It is a composite crime manifesting in wanton killing, cattle rustling, kidnapping for ransom, levying of illegal tax on farming communities, sexual violence and trafficking of arms and ...
Oluwole Ojewale
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Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2021 This article breaks new conceptual ground by questioning orthodox interpretations of nation state agency in the global drug wars. Specifically, it challenges the David vs.
John Collins, Karen Torres Alarcón
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Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 2021 This article details a correction to the article: Diskul, M.L.D., Collins, J. and Brombacher, D., 2021. Drugs and Development in the Urban Setting—Expanding Development-Oriented Interventions Beyond Illicit Drug Crop Cultivation.
M. L. Dispanadda Diskul +2 more
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