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The Gold Standard of Gun Control - Book Review of Joyce Malcolm, Guns and Violence : The English Experience

Kopel, David B. - 2007

Guns and Violence tells a remarkable story of a society's self-destruction, of how a government in a few decades … managed to reverse six hundred years of social progress in violence reduction. The book is also a testament to the amazing …

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Elusive Facts About Guns Violence : Where Good Surveys Go Bad

Cook, Philip J.; Ludwig, Jens - 2014

number of instances in which a private individual uses a gun to defend against crime. In each case the apparent bias in …

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Echo Epidemics : Control Fraud Epidemics Generate 'White-Collar Street Crime' Epidemics - Comment on: Mortgage Origination Fraud and the Global Economic Crisis: A Criminological An...

Black, William K. - 2010

“Control fraud” drove the crisis. Control fraud occurs when those that control a seemingly legitimate entity use it as a “weapon” to defraud. In finance, accounting is the “weapon of choice.” Regulators, criminologists, and criminologists have documented the pervasive role of control...

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Criminalizing the Problem of Unexplained Wealth : Illicit Enrichment Offenses and Human Rights Violations

Boles, Jeffrey R. - 2016

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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Trafficking in Women and Forced Migration : Moving Victims Across the Border of Crime into the Domain of Human Rights

McSherry, Bernadette M. - 2010

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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Shedding Light on Money Laundering and on the Financial Flows of Transnational Crime : Some Empirical Facts

Schneider, Friedrich - 2019

findings on the proceeds of transnational crime worldwide, as well as a breakdown of the different types of crime proceeds … we provide knowledge about money laundering and the size of financial flows of transnational crime, which could be the … basis for a more effective fight against transnational crime organizations …

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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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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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Fixing the Boundaries of the Concept of Crime : The Challenge for Human Rights

Guinchard, Audrey - 2008

The law of crime stands i ... …

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Wildlife Crime and CITES Trade Bans – Applying the Principles of Gladwell (2013)

Martin, Rowan - 2018

In the relationship between crime and punishment, Malcolm Gladwell hypothesises that, past a certain point …, intensification of law enforcement stops having any effect on criminals and may even make crime worse. This is very relevant to a … topical issue that has commanded global media attention in recent years – that of wildlife crime (illegal killing and …

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