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Showing 1 to 20 of 77 for “"organized crime"”.
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Transnational Organized Crime and Destabilization in Democracies, Russian Organized Crime as Case Study
Transnational organized crime has been prevalent during the last century, but it recently has been recognized as a threat to the world order. Governments throughout the world, along with the intergovernmental organizations identified this phenomenon as a new threat to domestic and international …
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The Origins of Organized Crime
… market economy transitions and the increase of organized crime. This correlation exists despite the differences in political system prior to the democratic transition. What matters the most is that these transitions either occur at the same time or within a short window of time. Organized …
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Transnational Organized Crime and the Drug Business
This study analyzes the activities of the organized crime groups involved in the drug business, as well as examining national and international efforts to control these groups. Specifically, this study addresses the following questions: How is organized crime connected to the international drug …
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New Organized Crime: Problems and Issues for Information Analysis
This study illustrates the changing nature of organized crime at both national and international levels. Organized crime groups have changed in that they have entered the realm of high technology. In response this change, the use of new or modified analytical tools is suggested to enhance law …
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Russian Organized Crime: Within the Parameters of a National Security Threat
… addition to the umbrella of existing organized crime groups. Recent literature attempts to convey Russian organized crime (ROC) as a significant threat to the U.S. by pinning the sophistication of Russian enterprises against the traditional methods of mafia groups. This thesis uses a …
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Organized crime in the United States organizational analogies for counterinsurgency strategy
… By showing that there are analogies between organized crime and insurgencies, further studies can be conducted on the applicability of modern law enforcement tactics to military operations. This thesis shows that there are organizational and conceptual analogies between organized crime …
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Elite Deviance, Organized Crime, and Homicide: A Cross-National Quantitative Analysis
… committed by the upper echelons of society, and organized crime threaten development and the rights and security of people across and within nations; however empirical research on these topics is limited, especially in the field of criminology. This study addresses this gap in the literature by …
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Transnational Organized Crime in Latin America: Implications For U.S. National Security
… strategy. The threats posed by transnational organized crime are numerous and its effects are global, making the counteraction of TCO activity an important part of national security strategy for the United States and all governments worldwide.
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Globalization and transnational organized crime : the making of the Nigerian fraudster
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 94-98).
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Terrorism And Organized Crime: An Analytical Study From An International Law Perspective
… relationship between terrorist organizations, organized crime syndicates, and their cooperation with each other, which has enabled terrorist organizations in particular to carry out recruitment efforts and operations alike. It has also fueled an international black market for smuggling and …
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Clandestine Partnerships?: The Link between Human Trafficking and Organized Crime in Metropolitan Atlanta
… has been collected on human trafficking ties to organized crime. Therefore, this research explores human trafficking and its relationship to organized crime through an analysis of public court records. Specifically, the study includes the 20 federal human trafficking cases in metropolitan Atlanta …
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International Police Cooperation as a Response to Transnational Organized Crime in Europe: Improvements in Extradition
… the reasons for the rise in transnational organized crime activities in Europe and presents an in-depth explanation concerning the emergence, mandates, and structures of multilateral police collaboration systems such as Interpol, Trevi, Schengen, and Europol. Since the extradition has …
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The Post-Westphalian State in transition : a case study : transnational organized crime and Russia's Mafiya
… ones is that presented by transnational organized crime, which has increased both in wealth and power as a result of these geopolitical shifts, and with the intensification of the globalization process. We posit that transnational criminal organizations are the perverse effect of both …
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The killing consensus : homicide detectives, police that kill and organized crime in São Paulo, Brazil
… periphery. Killing has become the realm of an organized crime group known as the Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC). Via a prison-periphery nexus, the PCC determines the moral borderlines of violence in the spaces it controls. In apparent moral contrast, police kill citizens at a rate of roughly …
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The Globalization of Crime Control: The Use of Non-criminal Justice Responses for Countering Organized Crime
… use of non-criminal justice responses to counter organized crime. Examples of responses used to counter outlaw motorcycle gangs in Canada, Germany, and Iceland are provided. These responses are significantly different from most international efforts focusing on criminal norms and cooperation in …
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Organized-crime growth and sustainment: a review of the influence of popular religion and beliefs in Mexico
… the relationship between the narco-cultura and organized crime in Mexico, as viewed from multiple perspectives. It considers this subculture’s historical origins and its influence on popular religion and narco-corridos (ballads). More precisely, this thesis explores how the narco-cultura …
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Street Gangs, Outlaw Bikers, the Mafia and the Mexican Cartels: Dynamics of Transnational Organized Crime and Drug Trafficking in Canada
… to a relative contemporary weakness of Canadian organized crime groups that traditionally handled the Canadian distribution. Further, a convenient network opportunity for direct expansion into Canada has presented itself to the cartels in the form of recently immigrated Mexican-Canadian …
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From narcotrafficking to alternative governance: An ethnographic study on Los Caballeros Templarios and the mutation of organized crime in Michoacán, Mexico
In this thesis, I unpack the mutation of Mexican organized crime by providing insights of unprecedented depth into one of the field’s principal actors of the past decade, Los Caballeros Templarios (The Knights Templar, LCT). My elaborations are based on firsthand qualitative data. During a year of …
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Organized Crime: An Ethnographic study of the monitoring and disrupting of those designated as high-level ‘organized criminals’ within the Metropolitan Police
… part of a project aimed at reducing ‘top tier’ organized criminal behaviour in the MPS. The research was an exploration of how organized criminals are defined, particularly during disruption panels aimed at measuring law enforcement successes. The study examines the process by which ancillary …
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