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Criminal defiance in Europe and beyond
From organised crime to crime-terror nexus
2020 || Paperback || Petrus C. van Duyne e.a. || Eleven international publishing
Crime can be seen as an act of defiance against the rule of law, particularly if is committed with intent. This intension is often to make unlawful gains, whether by theft, corruption or taking part in illegal markets, which in Europe are most often cross-border in nature. This entails that criminal defiance is not just a national issue: theft or fraud can be committed locally, while handling the illicit proceeds may require a cross-border movement. Obviously not every state faces the same de...
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Keeping trouble at a safe distance
unravelling the significance of ‘the fear of crime’
Paperback || Remco Spithoven || Eleven international publishing
The fear of crime is generally recognized as a social problem around the world. Yet, research has so far lacked to establish a dependable picture of this phenomenon. The present study examines the highly complex allocation of interacting perceptions, for which it provides suitable explanations through a social psychological approach. It aims to discover at what level of psychological distance citizens primarily experience 'the fear of crime' and how they construct it.
The author applies vario...
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State-Building, Lawmaking, and Criminal Justice in Afghanistan
A case study of the prison system’s legal mandate and the rehabilitation programmes offered in Pul-e-charkhi
2023 || Paperback || N. Amin || Eleven international publishing
Afghanistan is often viewed as a failing state. The international intervention, following 9/11, could fit with the country’s domestic modernisation efforts, King Ammanullah’s in the 1920s and Zahir Shah’s in the 1960s. Yet, such developments had been stalled time and again, first due to conservative resistance, then the 1979 Soviet occupation, and the subsequent rise of Mujahidin and Taliban. The post-2001 overhaul remained an outsider’s enterprise and lacked proper connection to Afgh...
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ProHIC Book of Basics
A Problem-Oriented Approach to High Impact Crime
2021 || Paperback || Bram van Dijk e.a. || Eleven international publishing || met inkijkexemplaar
This Book of Basics shows how High Impact Crime (HIC) in The Netherlands can be tackled at a local level by the police, the municipality and the Public Prosecution Service in collaboration with citizens and businesses/organisations. The target audience for the Book of Basics is the essential coalition of the local triangle - the mayor, police management and Public Prosecutor, as well as their policy makers and executors, businesses, citizens and organisations from civil society. The Book of B...
Human Rights Issues in Migration and Border Management
Challenges and Perspectives
2024 || Paperback || I. Mifsud e.a. || Eleven international publishing
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Tax and Trust
Institutions, Interactions and Instruments
Paperback || Sjoerd Goslinga || Eleven international publishing
Tax authorities face the challenge of influencing tax compliance by behaving in such a way that taxpayers perceive to be treated fairly and thus comply voluntarily with tax rules. In order to meet this challenge it is crucial that institutions such as tax authorities frequently interact with taxpayers and selectively apply instruments so that a sustainable basis of trust in taxation is created. At the same time, tax authorities need to have the capacity to adjust to a rapidly changing technol...
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International Standards on Legal Protection of Prisoners’ Labor and Social Security Rights
UN, ILO and Council of Europe
Paperback || Xixue Shang || Eleven international publishing
National system striving for protecting prisoners' labor and social security rights has been conducted in legislative area in many countries all over the world. And nowadays, national law concerning the protection of prisoners' rights is trying to become more substantial and in tune with international standards. Then while launching penal reforms on prisoners' labor and social security rights in the present and the future, the national legislator might want to be provided with insights and re...
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Het groene gras Blurring Military and Police Roles
2018 || Paperback || Marleen Easton e.a. || Eleven international publishing
In contemporary, late-modern society, security landscapes are being re-sketched. Various traditional and new security providers are part of this evolving scene. The military and the police, who are thought of as 'the old boys in town', are meeting once again. As central components in the power structure of any state, they are heavily involved in this new security design, generating both latent and obvious blurring of boundaries.
The aim of this book is to further explore the blurring boundarie...
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The Illicit Medicines Trade From Within
an Analysis of the Demand and Supply Sides of the Illicit Market for Lifestyle Medicines
Paperback || Rosa Koenraadt || Eleven international publishing
In recent decades all sorts of illicit medicines have been increasingly traded world-wide: from antibiotics to weight loss drugs, and antimalarial tablets to steroids. The illicit medicines market is generally associated with considerable health risks for its users, as well as with high revenues and a perceived growing degree of criminal organization. It is therefore important to gain extensive criminological insights into this global market. This book provides indepth and empirically-grounde...