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, who frequently encounter identity‐challenging situations as they interact with explicit and implicit models of race and …
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used to investigate the impact of prison overcrowding, race, crime and unemployment on the above variables. Racial …. Unemployment does not have a significant influence, nor does the crime rate influence inflow, but it does have a significant …
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. Clarifies the concepts of forfeiture and confiscation. Outlines the 1998 Prevention of Organised Crime Act (POCA) and considers …
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Purpose – The author seeks to explain the assaults made recently on the democratic process in many parts of the world. Design/methodology/approach – The democratic mechanism is broken into operational segments in order to identify the variety of dysfunctions or attacks involved. Findings –...
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paper aims to examine the capacity of civility to curb economic excess in the absence of distributive justice. Design … a curb on economic excess in the absence of a concept of distributive justice, even though this takes a different form … writings are relevant to modern discussions of social justice even when it is civility and not justice that is Collingwood …
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Purpose – Wicksell's contributions to welfare economics are viewed as largely aligned with Pareto efficiency and James … modern Swedish socialist economy. The purpose of this paper is to examine Wicksell's approach to economics, particularly his … understanding of “justice” as a way to understanding the evolution of two such divergent traditions. Design …
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Economists of the Public Choice School have argued that compensation payments to victims of crime will increase the … crime rate. This proposition is examined by estimating crime supply functions for rape and aggravated assault in which the … shows that victim compensation does ot increase the supply of crime.  …
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economic crime suspicions, which were recorded in the national police information system in 2007, and whose pre … were 1,590 economic crime suspicions and one‐seventh was related to the construction industry. Results indicated that …
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Theories of crime and delinquency tend to be discipline‐specific and are dominated by psychological, sociological, and … design of effective policies for dealing with the problem of criminal activity. From an economic perspective, crime is … all. This article examines the correlations between economic variables and a broad measure of crime, the property crime …
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