Crime

Smuggling and Trafficking in Τurkey: Αn Analysis of ΕU–Τurkey Cooperation in Combating Transnational Organized Crime

by sule toktas

co-authored with Hande Selimoglu, published at Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies

Smuggling and trafficking in Turkey: An analysis of EU-Turkey cooperation in combating transnational organized crime... more Smuggling and trafficking in Turkey: An analysis of EU-Turkey cooperation in combating transnational organized crime


by Sule Toktas and Hande Selimoglu


Abstract

Since the 1990s, there has been a global proliferation of transnational organized crime (TOC). Turkey, as a transit site between the East and the West has been one of the routes through which organized crime groups transport illicit goods in collaboration with other networks of crime. This article investigates TOC in Turkey and maps out Turkey's role as a transit country in smuggling and trafficking. The paper also deals with Turkey's contribution to international efforts in combating TOC in light of its EU membership process. The European Commission's annual reports on Turkey's progress towards EU membership that highlight the achievements as well as the shortcomings of Turkey in combating TOC are presented. The article argues that Turkey has introduced successful reforms and expanded its institutional capacities due to the progress it has achieved in the specific area of combating TOC, as evidenced by the EU progress reports.

A mulher criminosa em manchete: perfil da delinquente traçado por um meio de comunicação

by Zelinda Barros

BARROS, Zelinda . A mulher criminosa em manchete: perfil da delinquente traçado por um meio de comunicação. Coleção Bahianas, Salvador, v. 3, p. 111-121, 1998.

Pattern & Legal Consequences in Hospitalised Drug Abusers

by Dr. Navendu Gaur

The shoah, Palestine, 11.09, Oslo, slaughters around circumcision (circumcision and extermination)

by Michel Hervé Navoiseau-Bertaux

Between barbarity and exclusion, circumcision, a nec plus ultra of racism

by Michel Hervé Navoiseau-Bertaux

Rites of the parents against rights of the child; circumcision, a misdemeanor or a crime? (starting from a children judge point of view)

by Michel Hervé Navoiseau-Bertaux

Mise en nourrice et devenir des enfants exposés d'après les registres canoniaux de la ville d'Angers (1660-1765)

by vincent danet

RÉSUMÉ

Depuis un arrêt du Parlement de Paris daté du 30 juin 1664, la prise en charge des enfants exposés... more RÉSUMÉ

Depuis un arrêt du Parlement de Paris daté du 30 juin 1664, la prise en charge des enfants exposés revint aux « seigneurs de fief ou de justice » sur les terres desquels ils étaient découverts. Parmi les nombreuses seigneuries ecclésiastiques de la ville d’Angers au XVIIIe siècle, celle des chapitres permet, grâce à la tenue de registres consignant l’activité canoniale, de se faire une idée des conditions de mise en nourrice et du devenir de ces enfants abandonnés. Confiés à des nourrices rémunérées par le chapitre et partant grandir dans les campagnes non loin de la ville, nombre d’entre eux connaîtront une mort prématurée, alors que d’autres subiront les terribles conditions d’un voyage vers la capitale et son hôpital des enfants trouvés. Bien peu de ces enfants atteindront l’âge auquel le seigneur se déchargera du poids financier qu’ils représentent, les laissant dans le meilleur des cas au sein d’une famille nourricière voulant bien les accueillir et dans le pire, une vie d’errance et de pauvreté.

ABSTRACT

Following a judgment of the Parlement of Paris dated 30th june 1664, the responsibility for abandoned children was placed on “lords of land or law” on whose property they were found. Amongst the numerous ecclesiastical territories of the town of Angers in the eighteenth century, those of the chapters allow, thanks to the keeping of registers of canonical activities, the development of an idea of the conditions and the future of these abandoned children put in charge of nurses. Living in the countryside not far from the town, put in charge of nurses payed by the chapter, a number of them will suffer a premature death, while others will endure the terrible conditions of a journey to the capital and its hospital for lost children. Very few of these children will reach the age at which the lord will relinquish his financial responsibility for them which would leave them, at best, in the bosom of a nursing family wishing to welcome them and at the worst, abandoned to a life of wandering and poverty.

Attribution of Justice in White-Collar Crime: The Impact of Acculturation and Ethnocentrism on Perceived Justness

by Daniel Martin

This study examined the effect of ethnocentrism, acculturation, prescriptive (the subjects ideal view of justice)... more This study examined the effect of ethnocentrism, acculturation, prescriptive (the subjects ideal view of justice) versus descriptive justice (the subjects perception of justice as it actually occurs) on perceived justice in white-collar crime. Also investigated was the impact of situational outcomes (related or not), and good or bad outcomes on the perceived justness of the situation. Main effects partially support the hypotheses that: 1) ethnocentrism impacts perceived justice in office crime situations, 2) subject acculturation impacts the perceived justness the character, and 3) the outcome of a crime incident impacts the perceived justness of the situation.

The effects of ethnocentrism, various outcomes, and acculturation provide an insight into the complex process of perceived justice. The findings in this study do not clearly support the findings of Starr, Sloan, and Kudrick (1997) or the findings of Lee, Pepitone, and Albright (1997) but tentatively substantiated some of the hypotheses presented. Although the findings may have supported the operation of non-chance factors, this is unclear. The manipulations did seem to work (at least modestly), but the subjects in this study did not seem to respond clearly to the stimulus materials as expected.

Central American Gang Violence: Foregrounding the Silences.

by Sonja Wolf

Journal of Human Security 8.1 (forthcoming 2012).

Thomas Kühne, "Friendship into Comradeship. Gang Culture, Genocide, and Nation-Building in Germany, 1914-1945,” paper given to the workshop Friendship and the Nation, Henry J. Leir Luxembourg Center-Clark University, Luxembourg, 4-7 March 2010.

by Thomas Kühne

Sting operations

by Kelly Socia

Assisted Dr. Graeme Newman with this publication

The implementation of county residence restrictions in New York.

by Kelly Socia

DOI: 10.1037/a0024993
Currently in 'Online First' status

First implemented in 1995 at the state level and in 2005 at the county and local level, sex offender residence... more First implemented in 1995 at the state level and in 2005 at the county and local level, sex offender residence restrictions have become extremely popular throughout the United States. However, only a single state-level study has examined the types of jurisdictions most likely to implement these policies, and no research has examined their implementation at the county level. This study addresses this lack of research by examining the characteristics of counties implementing these policies in New York State over the course of 5 years using Logistic regression and linear probability models. In doing so, this study draws on the literatures relating to the implementation of crime policies and the diffusion of policy innovations. Results indicate that political competition is very influential in implementing a county residence restriction. Further, while geographic proximity to an existing residence restriction may have some influence, it appears to discourage rather than encourage the implementation of these policies in nearby counties. This finding undercuts contentions of a “domino effect” and instead supports the existence of a “polar effect,” at least at the county level. Finally, the rate of sex crimes in a county is not related to the likelihood of implementing a residence restriction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2011 APA, all rights reserved)

Residence Restriction Legislation, Sex Crime Rates, and the Spatial Distribution of Sex Offender Residences

by Kelly Socia

This is my complete dissertation

The Reintergration of Criminal Deportees in Society

by Christopher A.D. Charles

For more information on this article contact Dr. Christopher A.D. Charles via email at ccharles@gc.cuny.edu

This article deals with reintegrating deportees in Jamaica. There is the belief among the citizenry, the media, and... more This article deals with reintegrating deportees in Jamaica. There is the belief among the citizenry, the media, and the government that the deportees are fueling the crime rate. Jamaica has one of the highest homicide rates in the world. Some 15,618 deportees were sent to Jamaica from various countries between 2005 and 2009. The purveyors of the deportee–crime link ignore the influence of garrison communities on the crime rate which are political communities governed by criminals. Another view argues that the deportees have a minimal impact on the crime rate. None of the viewpoints can be substantiated without a representative survey with a rigorous methodology on the deportee–crime link. The various viewpoints also ignore the need to reintegrate the deportees. Only one church group the Cornerstone Ministries has a reintegration program. The government has a temporary piecemeal program that provides assistance and temporary housing rather than reintegration. Some societies (e.g. China, New Zealand, and Australia) have reintegration programs for ex-offenders which give them a stake in conformity by reaccepting them in the community after punishment. These models can be applied to Jamaica with the creation of a national reintegration program taking into account
the cultural differences.

Book review of Ellen Moodie's El Salvador in the Aftermath of Peace: Crime, Uncertainty, and the Transition to Democracy (2010)

by Sonja Wolf

Journal of Latin American Studies 44.1 (2012): 211-214.

Garrison Communities as Counter Societies and the 1998 Zeek's Riot in Jamaica

by Christopher A.D. Charles

Lo dicen los datos: La violencia homicida en Colombia es un resultado del ciclo económico

by Ximena Duenas

Análisis empírico de la relación entre la actividad económica y la violencia homicida en Colombia

by Ximena Duenas

Co-authored with Juan Esteban Carranza and Giovanni Gonzalez, published in Estudios Gerenciales, 2011

An empirical analysis of the relationship between murders and economic activity in Colombia

The goal of... more An empirical analysis of the relationship between murders and economic activity in Colombia

The goal of this article is to examine the causal relationship between murders and economic activity in Colombia during the last decades. This analysis draws on the fact that economic activity in other Latin American countries is highly correlated with economic activity in Colombia, but is not affected by homicidal violence in Colombia. The use of this instrument allows us to establish a strong causal effect of economic activity on murders. An analysis of time series provides further support for the hypothesis that there is a long-term relationship between murders and economic activity

2001: «Societal representations of crime. The criminality of albanian immigrants in Athens press», στο H.-J. Alberecht, A. Koukoutsaki, T. Serassis (eds) Images of Crime, Representations of Crime and the Criminal in Science, the Arts and the Media, Max-Planck – Institut fur Auslandisches und Internationales Strafrecht, Freiburg, pp. 93-130.

by Christina Konstantinidou

The paper concerns with the examination of the images of the criminal in modern public discourse compared with the... more The paper concerns with the examination of the images of the criminal in modern public discourse compared with the ideology of crime and the legitimization of the discrimination against immigrants. The central hypothesis of the study is that in modern societies mass media, as principal ideological apparatuses, acquire great importance in the reproduction of dominant ideologies which legitimate the social inequality between people. Within this theoretical framework a classic thematic content analysis and a semiotic analysis were carried out based on articles of five Athens’ daily newspapers during February - May 1998. The basic conclusion is that the Athenian press adopts traditional criminology’s assumptions concerning the definition of crime, the criminal, law and order and the criminal justice system, as these are expressed by the primary definers (police, courts, specialist scientists etc.), who perceive deviance as an inherent attribute of specific types of actions and, therefore, the “problem” of the increase in crime and foreign immigrants’ participation in it constitutes an objective fact. Moreover, through the multiformity of the various ways and means of “recording” relevant news or “interpreting” the Albanians’ criminality phenomenon which the Athenian Press attempts, both the questions set and the answers given by the press is that Albanians, in the “concervative” discourse constitute a “threat” against the nation and therefore formal and informal social reaction, legitimise the strengthening of repressive mechanisms and justify recourse to the use of violence (state or private) and the curtailment of fundamental individual rights. Without overturning the picture of a social threat from the increase in imported criminality, the “progressive” version incorporates “liberal” demands for resolving problems arising from illegal immigration, but does not stop constructing the “exclusion” of Albanians, either as criminals or poor illegal immigrants, from the dominant national group. In the same way, the annihilation of the Albanians’ voice, through their marginalization and symbolic annihilation, ensures their exclusion from the public debate and turns, as a rule, Albanian immigrants (criminal or not) into “objects” of protection and not “subjects” of rights.

"Joy Rides for Juveniles": Vagrant Youth and Colonial Control in Nairobi, Kenya, 1901-52.

by Paul Ocobock

Published in "Social History" in 2006.  Based on research conducted during my M.Phil in Economic and Social History at Oxford University.