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Tort Law and Criminal Law in an Age of Austerity
McBride, Nicholas - 2015
In this paper, I consider how tort law and criminal law - conceived as interlocking and overlapping systems for protecting and upholding the legal rights people have against other people - should operate in a society where there are not enough public funds available to run those systems properly...
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Special Studies in Criminal Law, Volume 1 (Estudios De Derecho Penal Especial : Tomo I)
Luna-Osorio, Andrés-Hernando - 2012
The book contents four studies of the special part in the Colombian criminal law. The first of them it's relates about genocide and its apology, the second relates to crimes against humanity, the third it's about war crimes, and the and final study explains the sexual offenses and sexual...
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Strategic aspects of voluntary disclosure programs for corruption offences : towards a design of good practice
Nell, Mathias - 2007
Even though high penalties for corruption offences have a deterrent and preventive effect, they also entrap bribe-takers and bribe-givers in their corrupt relationship. Moreover, pending penalties can be misused to make threats against opportunistic behavior and can thus stabilize risky bribe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009425286
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Strategic aspects of voluntary disclosure programs for corruption offences : towards a design of good practice
Nell, Mathias - 2008
Even though high penalties for corruption offences have a deterrent and preventive effect, they also entrap bribe-takers and bribe-givers in their corrupt relationship. Moreover, pending penalties can be misused to make threats against opportunistic behavior and can thus stabilize risky bribe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009746173
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Terrorism and International Criminal Law : Questions of (In)Coherence and (Il)Legitimacy
Saul, Ben - 2012
A decade after 9/11, the international field of counter-terrorism is now thick with law. But that does not mean that the law is coherent or legitimate. The birth of new rules, institutions and processes can be anarchic. New norms overlay older, pre-existing legal forms and regimes, generating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014175984
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Modern day slavery : what drives human trafficking in Europe?
Hernández, Diego; Rudolph, Alexandra - 2011 - Rev. November 2011
At a time of increased attention on the international agenda for human trafficking, this paper examines the determinants of human trafficking inflows to 13 European countries based on official records. By employing a fixed effects zero-inflated, negative binomial gravity-type model, we address...
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International Criminal Law : An Ideology Critique
Krever, Tor - 2013
The article engages in an ideology critique of international criminal law texts and discourse, drawing on a theoretical framework developed by critical legal studies scholars in order to interrogate, in a different jurisprudential context, the assumptions undergirding contemporary international...
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Structure of a Transnational Criminal Network : 'Los Zetas' and the Smuggling of Hydrocarbons
Garay, Luis - 2017
Mexico is currently one of the most important hotspots of criminal activity with effects in the Western Hemisphere. In this criminal dynamic, the Sinaloa Cartel, The Gulf Cartel, “La Familia Michoacana”, “The Knights Templar” and “Los Zetas” are some of the most relevant criminal...
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Crime at 1990 World Football Cup : A Panel Data Analysis
Campaniello, Nadia - 2008
negative impacts generated by these events. In particular there is limited understanding about the impact of crime on hosting … cities. Increased crime can be a long term impact that persists after the event. This paper investigates the relation, if any …, between the fact that an Italian city hosted the 1990 World Football Cup and its crime rates. Analysis aims at better …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012722973
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Cryptocurrency or Usury? Crime and Alternative Money Laundering Techniques
Masciandaro, Donato - 2018
The article presents a novel dynamic setting to compare old – usury – and new – cryptocurrency – money laundering techniques and uses it for calibration to shed light on their relative role as an effective device for the criminal organizations to clean their illegal revenues. The...
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