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Incarceration is a crucial part of the scholarly analysis of crime, but what happens inside penal institutions largely … seizures, random mandatory drug test results, various measures of harm, violence, and causes of death. I first document a large … increase in NPS availability and an alarming correlation with the steep rise in harm and violence behind bars. I then evaluate …
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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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ICL and its adequacy to deal with conflict and violence ignores the factors and forces — including specific international … conflict and violence emanates. In uncritically celebrating ICL and equating it with a pacific international rule of law, ICL … systemic forces underlying instances of violence, including political-economic forces shaped by international legal …
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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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This Article argues that despite the benefits of illicit enrichment for thwarting corruption, this offense violates fundamental human rights of the accused and therefore must be replaced by alternate enforcement mechanisms. Part I demonstrates how illicit enrichment surfaced as a mechanism to...
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The response to the trafficking of women is primarily dominated by the discourse of criminal law both internationally and nationally. By contrast, in the refugee law context, women are constructed as victims in a ‘culturally relative', patriarchal society. This paper explores the tensions...
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from the ways in which the new criminal process has already expanded executive power, licensed state violence, and …
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This paper quantifies how much of violent crime in society can be attributed to football-related violence. We study the … identify causal effects, we leverage time-series and cross-sectional variation in crime register data, comparing the number of … holidays. Our main finding shows that violent crime increases by 21.5 percent on a match day. In total, professional football …
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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 …
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Recent contributions using police recorded calls-for-service and/or crime data to estimate impacts of COVID-19 … lockdowns on the incidence of domestic violence (DV) have reported relatively modest effects. This may reflect a low reporting …
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