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-based arguments for evaluating anti-terrorism laws, those faced with arguably excessive laws are left with little upon which to hang …
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Much of the international legal debate about defining terrorism has focused on the ideological disputes, or technical … mechanics, of definition, rather than on the underlying policy question of why-or whether-terrorism should be internationally … existing sectoral treaty offences, war crimes and crimes against humanity. This article argues that terrorism should be defined …
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In this article we analyses threats to international security posed by international terrorist organisations and main approaches to combating their criminal activities at the national and international levels. We offer own concept of responsibility of international terrorist organisations under...
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An important challenge in the crime literature is to isolate significant causal effects of police on crime. Following a … hideous event induced a geographical allocation of police forces that can be presumed exogenous in a crime regression. Using … negative effect of observable police on crime. The effect is local, so that the costs of police presence are almost seven times …
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Appearing in the annual "International Practitioner's Notebook" edition of the ILSA Journal of International and Comparative Law, this article briefly addresses three issues related to modern counterterrorism operations. First, it examines whether there are limits on the force that can be used...
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This article is a much revised and expanded version of a working paper that I posted a year or so ago. This revised version argues that the war on terror has accelerated the development of a new criminal process and that this new process has increasingly displaced traditional methods of...
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precursor crimes of terrorism, exploring the functions and implications of these new expanding offences in different … jurisdictions. In response to new forms modes and sources of terrorism, attempts to pre-empt potential attacks through precursor … leading academic and practitioner experts in counter-terrorism law, the book covers the broad scope of activities tackled by …
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The criminal legal system is at a crossroads. Calls for abolition are met with calls for modest adjustments or maintenance of the status quo. What frequently emerges from these polarities is a promise that police, prosecutors, judges, and other government actors will use their vast discretion to...
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In Counterfeit Crime, economist, historian, and criminologist R.T. Naylor dissects the costs - economic, social, and … political - of the seemingly never-ending wars on the grossly exaggerated menaces of Crime and Terror and how most things … Christianity and a military-security-industrial complex in search for new - mostly imaginary - enemies. Counterfeit Crime is savage …
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