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Are civil wars to blame for crime in Central America? [PDF]
Revista 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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Criminological specificity of war crimes, their difference from crimes against humanity and genocide [PDF]
Revista 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)
Вестник 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]
Омский 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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Review 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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Revista 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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The criminal act of aggression in international and criminal law of Serbia [PDF]
Војно дело, 2015 Among the international criminal acts, the crime of aggression stands out by its meaning, nature and character. This is a crime against peace and international security.
Jovašević Dragan
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Taliban insurgency and transnational organized crime nexus
Masyarakat, Kebudayaan dan Politik, 2020 Afghanistan has been demolished by more than three decades of the ongoing war since the war against the Soviet Union started in 1979. The Afghanistan-Pakistan region provides a geographically secure location and a space of opportunity for organized crime
Mohammad Ayub Mirdad
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The Crime-Conflict Nexus and the Civil War in Syria
Stability : International Journal of Security and Development, 2017 There is a strong relationship between organised crime and civil war. This article contributes to the crime-conflict nexus literature by providing a consideration of the role of organised crime in the Syrian conflict.
Christina Steenkamp
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Cascades Across An ‘Extremely Violent Society’: Sri Lanka
International Journal of Conflict and Violence, 2016 In the “Peacebuilding Compared” research project so far, violence is seen as cascading across space and time within and between war-torn societies. This article illustrates the cascade lens as a framework for hypothesis generation.
John Braithwaite, Bina D'Costa
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