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Between Hype and Understatement: Reassessing Cyber Risks as a Security Strategy [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Strategic Security, 2011
Most of the actions that fall under the trilogy of cyber crime, terrorism,and war exploit pre-existing weaknesses in the underlying technology.Because these vulnerabilities that exist in the network are not themselvesillegal, they tend to be overlooked ...
Audrey Guinchard
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War, Crime and Disease

open access: diamondGroundings, 2016
Since 9/11 and the declaration of the War on Terror, terrorism has featured prominently in the 21st century security agenda. As a result, a wide range of counterterrorist measures have been developed in order to provide security in states across the ...
David Pannocchia
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Are civil wars to blame for crime in Central America? [PDF]

open access: greenRevista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2008
The countries of Central America are high up on the list of nations with the highest crime rates in the world. According to the literature, the most common argument is that these high crimerates are a legacy of the armed conflicts of the 1980s.
Ana Sofia Cardenal Izquierdo
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Ending Rape in War: How Far Have We Come? [PDF]

open access: yesCosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2015
The rape of women has for centuries been an endemic feature of war, yet perpetrators largely go unpunished. Women were sanctioned as the spoils of war in biblical times and more recently it has been claimed that it is more dangerous to be a woman than a ...
Lucy Fiske, Rita Shackel
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Deconstruction of organised crime and research of war victimisation [PDF]

open access: diamondTemida
There are many indications that various aspects and factors of large-scale war victimization could be made visible through the collection and analyses of data on organized crime in post-conflict societies.
Simeunović-Patić Biljana   +1 more
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Criminological specificity of war crimes, their difference from crimes against humanity and genocide [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Institutului Naţional de Justiţie, 2023
At the present day sometimes crime of genocide is practically described as a crime against humanity, and the latter is characterized as war crimes. Although some similarity does exist between these kinds of crimes, they have different peculiarities by ...
Alovsat Allahverdiyev
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Battle after Victory: Causes of the Post-War Crime Rate Increase (1945–1950)

open access: yesВестник Кемеровского государственного университета, 2021
The article features the causes of the crime rate increase that occurred in the Soviet Union after World War II. The author studied archival documents of the Chief Department of Gang Prevention, as well as memoirs written by militia officers and common ...
A. D. Popova
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The journal «Bulletin of the Police» as a source for studying the history of crime in Russian Empire during the First World War [PDF]

open access: yesОмский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность", 2022
The paper analyzes the structure and content of the journal «Bulletin of the Police» on the basis of archival materials as a valuable historical source that allows reconstructing data on the dynamics and nature of crime in the Russian Empire during ...
E. E. Shumilova
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“Inter Arma Silent Musae”. Destroying Museums, Historical Buildings, and Monuments during the War in the Ukraine as War Crimes within the Meaning of International Law

open access: yesReview of European and Comparative Law, 2023
The article summarizes the situation related to the armed conflict in Ukraine in the context of the destruction of monuments and cultural objects as a war crime.
Dominika Zawacka-Klonowska   +1 more
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Obedience to authority, cognitive and affective responses and leadership style in relation to a non-normative order: the Milgram experiment

open access: yesRevista de Psicología, 2021
The influence of the context on behavioral and emotional reactions to a war crime situation military cadets (N = 315) is analyzed. The study is based on Milgram’s experience and the tragedy of My Lai.It examines personal and peer obedience to an anti ...
Silvia da Costa   +7 more
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