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Parenting as Civic Action: A Relational Framework for Citizenship

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article conceptualizes parenting as a form of civic action. Identifying a relational turn in theories of citizenship, we propose an analytical framework for examining civic meanings in everyday parental acts. Foregrounding the intersubjective and intergenerational nature of state–citizen relations, the framework expands existing theories ...
Lauren Erdreich   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Corruption as the cause, not the effect, of organized crime?

open access: yesJournal of Economic Criminology
This analysis uses known corruption cases, serious enough to be prosecuted by governments, to develop an empirical description of the nature of corruption and its connections to organized crime. More than 200 cases from the U.S.
Jay S. Albanese
doaj   +1 more source

Transnational Organized Crime and Destabilization in Democracies, Russian Organized Crime as Case Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
Transnational organized crime has been prevalent during the last century, but it recently has been recognized as a threat to the world order. Governments throughout the world, along with the intergovernmental organizations identified this phenomenon as a
Yasar, Muhammet Murat
core  

Towards Sustainable Urbanization and Zero–Carbon Urban Life: A Case Study of BRICS Countries Between 1992 and 2020

open access: yesNatural Resources Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Urban factors play a critical role in efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to climate change. In this regard, this study aims to examine the impact of urbanization and its components (e.g., urban population growth [UPG], population in the largest city [ULC], population in urban agglomerations [UPA] of more than 1 million, and ...
Korkmaz Yildirim, Tunahan Haciimamoglu
wiley   +1 more source

Brazilian spotlight on INTERPOL's I‐Familia: Policy, practice, and international missing persons identification

open access: yesJournal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract The disappearance of individuals is a global humanitarian and public security issue that requires coordinated national and international responses. INTERPOL's I‐Familia database is a global DNA database that uses kinship matching to support identification of missing persons (MP) and unidentified human remains (UHR) when a direct DNA profile ...
Aline Minervino   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

The analysis and containment of organized crime and transnational organized crime: an interview with Ernesto U. Savona

open access: yes, 2015
This interview with Ernesto Savona was conducted in 2014. It discusses Savona’s background, influences, career and current thinking and activities. After graduating in 1965 in Palermo, he has worked at Rome “La Sapienza”, Trento and Cattolica del Sacro ...
Calderoni, Francesco
core   +1 more source

Aligning Transnational due Diligence: The EU Deforestation Regulation and Brazil's Fragmented Beef Governance

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Transnational due diligence regulations, such as the European Union Regulation on Deforestation‐Free Products (EUDR), are reshaping sustainability governance by transforming voluntary norms into binding global rules. Yet, their effectiveness depends on how well they align with domestic governance systems and on the power asymmetries that ...
John James Loomis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

CRIMA ORGANIZATĂ TRANSNAŢIONALĂ – PERICOL REAL PENTRU ECONOMIA NAŢIONALĂ

open access: yesStudia Universitatis Moldaviae: Stiinte Sociale, 2008
Following the growing public interest, national government interest or international corps interest for the transnational organized crime cases, this article introduces us in the most spreading areas of the phenomena.
USM ADMIN
doaj  

Risk Scenarios for European Rearmament

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the European Union has launched a flurry of initiatives to ramp up European defence spending. Efforts to bolster European defence have further intensified in response to the United States' increasingly hostile stance towards its erstwhile European allies.
Mette Eilstrup‐Sangiovanni
wiley   +1 more source

Crime and Social Control in Terms of Globalization

open access: yesПроблеми на постмодерността, 2017
Many studies show that regardless of local characteristic in terms of globalization criminal networks are transnational, and local and regional crime are under control of organized crime.
Valentina Zlatanova
doaj  

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