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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Drug dealers"”.
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With a little help from my friends: Exploring the perceptions and utility of partners of drug crime.
Co-offending and drug crime scholarship have rarely crossed paths. Whenever co-offending and drug crime are investigated together, the work is almost always quantitative. Thus much remains unknown about why drug dealers cooperate criminally. To provide a modest contribution to what is otherwise a …
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Towards a Greater Understanding of the Antecedents of Dehumanization: A Contempt-Dehumanization Framework
… the realm of extremely immoral acts committed by drug dealers who intentionally target young children: Experiments 1 and 3) as well as unscrupulous Wall Street businessmen who deliberately scam unsuspecting elderly investors: Experiment 2). We discuss the implications of our model for previous …
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A study of the moral development, beliefs and relationships of the criminal entrepreneur
… on male prisoners, predominantly fraudsters and drug dealers, and was motivated by the assertion that by understanding why they have chosen this way of life it may be possible to encourage such people to use their entrepreneurial skills in a legitimate context thereby reducing recidivism. Based …
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Imprisonment in Thailand: The Impact of the 2003 War on Drugs Policy
… was to analyse the impact of the 2003 war on drugs policy on imprisonment and the prison social world in Thailand. While most studies on the drugs war have focused mainly on the quantitative increase in the prison population in the penal systems as the policy’s main impact, this research …
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Political economy, public policy, power structures, and human rights violations : the case of internally displaced persons in Colombia between 1993 and 2010
… coalition between the ruling class and the drug dealers who grabbed land from poor peasants and from the State in order to obtain financial gains. This thesis also studies how national and international elites were able to take advantage of every stage in the US foreign policy, and in the …
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Three Essays on Crime
… relationship between property crime and minimum drug consumption requirements. I use a crime model with an exogenous income distribution to determine the government's optimal drug supply control in the presence of drug addicts who might be induced to commit property crime to satisfy their minimum …
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Evaluating the sentencing of non-violent drug offenders
1 PDF file (vii, 59 leaves : color illustrations ; 28 cm)
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An Exploration of how the Social Supply and User-Dealer Supply of Illicit Drugs Differs to Conventional Notions of Drug Dealing and Consideration of the Consequences of this for Sentencing Policy
… both in the UK, and internationally, to describe drug distribution that is non-commercially motivated and almost exclusively found between friends and acquaintances. Social suppliers have increasingly been presented as actors who are qualitatively different to drug dealers (proper), in relation to …
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Civil society organisations and the production of socio-geographic space : the organisation of space in Brazilian favelas
… territory, where the interplay of the police, drug dealers, and other CSOs suggest this is a disputed territory. The data for this thesis was collected using participant observation during fieldwork while I worked in two CSOs in Mucuripe for 10 weeks. This thesis interrogates how CSOs’ …
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The Social Economy of Buying, Selling, Trading, and Consuming Drugs: A Comparison of Individual and Sub Cultural Strategies Among Methamphetamine Users and Dealers in Two Cities
… and collective meanings and functions of drug taking for research subjects including methamphetamine users and dealers in drug subcultural groups recruited in two major cities. Participant observation was conducted in the two cities among methamphetamine users and dealers. In depth …