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Rape as a war crime

Politikon, 2003
This term paper seeks to analyse the use of rape as a war crime and its status in international law today almost ten years after the wars in Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
Andrea Theocharis
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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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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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“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

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, Aleksandra Główczewska   +1 more
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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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Antiquities in a time of conflict: a crime script analysis of antiquities trafficking during the Syrian Civil War and implications for conflict antiquities

Crime Science, 2021
The Syrian Civil War created an opportunity for increased trafficking of antiquities and has resulted in a renewed awareness on the part of a global audience.
Christine A. Weirich
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