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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"criminal networks"”.
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Seaport Vulnerability to Criminal Networks: A Mixed Method Approach to Measuring Criminological Vulnerability in the Top 30 U.S. Container Ports
… the majority of international and domestic trade criminal network access to a port can provide outsized benefits. While ports are physical spaces they are underlined by complex systems incorporating public and private agencies, companies and small entities. Underlying the administrative and …
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Organised crime and the South African State post 1994: a social network analysis of organised criminal networks in the Western Cape
Crime, and the criminals that enact it, are no new phenomenon; however, the way in which we conceptualise and understand organised crime requires revision. Orthodox approaches are no longer relevant to current manifestations of crime, nor is it sufficient to fully grasp its endurance. The …
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Dark networks: a South African cash-in-transit crime case study
… exploring the structure of cash-in-transit criminal networks in South Africa. Whilst the current literature on cash-in-transit robberies is sparse, academic research on the criminal networks involved in these crimes is non-existent, partly due to the difficulty of obtaining reliable data on …
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Indoor Scene Localization to Fight Sex Trafficking in Hotels
… to advertise for sex services,(b) shared among criminal networks, and (c) connect a person in an image to the place where the image was taken. This work explores the ability to link images to indoor places in order to support the investigation and prosecution of sex trafficking. We propose and …
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Transnational security challenges and statehood in Africa: A case study of drug trafficking in Ghana
… factors made it vulnerable to the activities of criminal networks exploring new routes to markets in the global North. Upon emerging, traffickers have sustained the country’s weaknesses, worsened them in some cases and also initiated new forms through narco-corruption, intimidation, infiltration …
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Transit crimes in the Internet age: How new online criminal opportunities affect the organization of offline transit crimes
… has changed those offenders’ behaviors and the criminal processes remains under- investigated. The aim of this thesis is to understand what kind of criminal opportunities the Internet offers for conducting transit crimes and how these opportunities affect the organization of transit crimes, as …
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Regulating Modern Slavery: Contemporary Developments, Corporate Responsibility and the Role of the State
… flourish in 21st-century society. Sophisticated criminal networks and transnational illicit operations, coupled with weak governance and a high demand for slave labour, has allowed modern slavery to evolve and thrive underground, where vulnerable individuals are exploited for a multitude of …
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The need for harmonisation of wildlife crime laws in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) A case study of the illicit abalone trade
… transnational problem (Steyn, 2017:np). Wildlife criminal syndicates exploit weaknesses in neighbouring countries criminal justice systems and porous borders amongst other elements making it easier for the crime to be transboundary in nature (Pienaar, 2014:2; Steyn, 2017:np), through loopholes …
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CRIMINALITA' ORGANIZZATA CALABRESE TRA PERIODO LIBERALE E FASCISMO NELLE PROVINCE DI REGGIO CALABRIA E CATANZARO.
… of formation, diffusion, and repression of criminal organizations active in this area. Long considered a “minor” mafia, Calabrian organized crime has only recently attracted the attention of historians. This study fits into a line of research that seeks to fill the gaps in the historiography …