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Terrorism and crime, particularly organised crime with its close links to terrorism, currently constitute the greatest … culminated in the ousting of regimes. Terrorism and organised crime are, to varying extents, prevalent in all Maghreb states and …, as yet their use has sufficed to contain the threats posed by terrorism and crime. …
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more likely to accept using violence for achieving political goals, consistent with the economic model of crime. We also …
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We examine the optimal disruption of dark (covert and illegal) networks. Of central importance is that an interventionist will generally have incomplete information about the dark network's architecture. We derive the optimal disruption strategy in a stylized model of dark network intervention...
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Community traumatic events such as mass shootings, terrorist attacks, and natural or man-made disasters have the potential to disrupt student learning in numerous ways. For example, these events can reduce instructional time by causing teacher and student absences, school closures, and...
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unprecedented organized crime groups operating principles both national and international, using different forms of crimes. …
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Reacting to the attacks on September 11th and subsequently, governments in both the USA and UK have identified a need to enhance the social control apparatus in order to protect citizens from forms of 'asymmetric warfare' conducted by terrorist groups. These attempts to reform the provision of...
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The economics of crime concentrates on policies in the form of punishments. To adopt such a policy is unwise for … several reasons. On the one hand, there are important instances in which punishment is unable to reduce crime or may even … possibilities and limits of the proposed positive approaches are discussed using terrorism as an example. Die Ökonomik der …
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targeting and better detection. We show that better targeting does not necessarily decrease the overall crime rate, although it … will decrease crime in the group that is targeted. Improved detection rates unambiguously decrease crime. Group … for the possibility that criminal passengers disguise themselves as members of low-crime groups. …
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We examine the optimal disruption of dark (covert and illegal) networks. Of central importance is that an interventionist will generally have incomplete information about the dark network's architecture. We derive the optimal disruption strategy in a stylized model of dark network intervention...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010702949
characteristics of its recruits. Our model best describes smuggling or terrorism activities at borders, airports and other security … checkpoints. When the social costs of crime are high, law enforcement is most-effective when it is unconstrained in its ability to … to models of decentralized crime, eliminating profiling by law enforcement is never optimal. …
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