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This paper seeks to start a debate on the harms that trusts can inflict on societies (e.g. money laundering, corruption and tax evasion risks, potential to defraud creditors, avoid taxes, etc.), and what can be done about this. The paper takes a global perspective on the risks of secrecy, asset...
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In 2011, German police accidentally stumbled upon a previously unknown right-wing extremist group called the National Socialist Underground (NSU). Further investigations implicated the group in previously unexplained murders of mostly ethnically Turkish individuals and in other crimes targeting...
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Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP) data, this paper offers the first evidence that the 2011 news revelations about crimes committed by National Socialist Underground (NSU) network in early the 2000s resulted in an increase in worries about xenophobic hostility among NSU’s targeted...
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international crimes, before focusing on the impacts of terrorism amnesties on international security and justice issues …
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-white respondents are more reluctant than whites to support targeting or to be targeted. Terrorism risk assessments are highly diffuse …, reflecting considerable risk ambiguity. People fear highly severe worst case terrorism outcomes, but their best estimates of the … risk perception contexts, such as hindsight biases and embeddedness effects, are particularly evident for terrorism risk …
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Camera surveillance has recently gained prominence in policy proposals on combating terrorism. We evaluate this … evidence on crime, we expect camera surveillance to have a relatively smaller deterrent effect on terrorism than on other forms …
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terrorist leaders to influence their followers. From our model approaches to counter terrorism on both the leadership as well as …
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We study the influence of income inequality on terrorism. Using cross-national data for 79 countries for the 2002 … of terrorism. Once endogeneity is properly accounted for by means of an instrumental-variable approach, higher levels of … terrorism is consistent with relative deprivation theory which argues that conflict results from frustration over the actual …
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