Search for dissertations about: "Organized crime"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words Organized crime.

2. 1. Criminal Organizing : Studies in the sociology of organized crime

   Author : Amir Rostami; Fredrik Liljeros; Christofer Edling; Petter Gottschalk; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Organized crime; Criminal organizing; Social order; Mafia; Gang; Network; Sociology; sociologi;

   Abstract : What organized crime is and how it can be prevented are two of the key questions in both organized crime research and criminal policy. However, despite many attempts, organized crime research, the criminal justice system and criminal policy have failed to provide a shared and recognized conceptual definition of organized crime, which has opened the door to political interpretations. READ MORE

4. 2. Forces of Destruction and Construction : Local Conflict Dynamics, Institutional Trust and Postwar Crime

   Author : Annekatrin Deglow; Kristine Höglund; Lisa Hultman; Alexander De Juan; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; internal armed conflict; civil war; organized violence; subnational; institutional trust; postwar crime; state institutions; police; Afghanistan; Northern Ireland; Kabul; Belfast; Peace and Conflict Research; Freds- och konfliktforskning;

   Abstract : In 2017 alone, an estimated 68,851 people lost their lives as a consequence of civil wars, that is, armed conflicts that take place within the borders of a state. Such violent conflicts not only lead to immense human suffering, but also leave social, economic and political imprints on the societies that experience them. READ MORE

5. 3. Harmonizing National Laws on Human Trafficking by Implementing Article 3 of the Palermo Protocol : Problems and Reform

   Author : Dominika Borg Jansson; Petter Asp; Stefan Hedlund; Per Ole Träskman; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Trafficking in human beings; international law; criminal law; organized crime; legal transplants; language; irregular migration; Palermo Protocol; human rights; women’s rights; Criminal Law; Straffrätt;

   Abstract : Trafficking in human beings is one of the most serious and acute problems of our time. It is seen as one of the main forms of organized crime as well as a modern form of slavery. Trafficking is a practice that affects entire societies or rather the very fabric of democratic societies. READ MORE

6. 4. Reclaiming Territory from Below : Grassroots Environmentalism and Waste Conflicts in Campania, Italy

   Author : Salvatore Paolo De Rosa; Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; grassroots movements; popular environmentalism; territory; waste management; environmental conflicts; Organized crime; southern Italy; political ecology; socioecological metabolism;

   Abstract : In the course of 2000s, the region of Campania in southern Italy and its capital city Naples became global icons of waste mismanagement after the images of piles of rubbish occluding their urban areas hit the headlines. Conventional explanations, in Italy and elsewhere, pointed to administrative failure, cultural backwardness and mafia infiltration as the main causes of waste mishandling. READ MORE

7. 5. The Plural Policing of Fraud : Power and the investigation of insurance and welfare fraud in Sweden

   Author : Anders Stenström; Janne Flyghed; Felipe Estrada; Adam Crawford; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Plural policing; Power; Insurance; Fraud; Sweden; kriminologi; Criminology;

   Abstract : There is a vast literature on plural policing and the ways in which non-governmental actors now have and are assuming more responsibility for crime control. This literature argues that the connection between policing and the state is being eroded, questioned and sometimes abandoned in favour of networks in which the state acts as one actor among many others. READ MORE