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Violence, Poverty and Police Corruption

Project | Jan 2007 - Dec 2009

Crime and the fear of being hit by crime and small-scale violence are key economic and social problems in most developing countries, and often strongly ...

Police, Corruption, Violence, India, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania

Crime, Poverty and Police Corruption in Non-Rich Countries

Report in External Series | Aug 2008

Crime and the fear of being hit by crime and small-scale violence are key economic and social problems in most developing countries, not least felt strongly ...

Corruption, Crime, Police, Poverty

Crime, Poverty and Police Corruption in Developing Countries

CMI Working Paper | Jul 2008

Crime and the fear of being hit by crime and small-scale violence are key economic and social problems in most developing countries, not least felt strongly ...

Corruption, Crime, Police, Poverty, JEL classification: D73, K42, O17

Missing from the picture: Men imprisoned for ‘moral crimes’ in Afghanistan

CMI Insight | Jun 2018

Recent years have seen sustained focus on the prosecution of Afghan women and girls for ‘moral crimes’ such as adultery and ‘running ...

Moral crimes, Prosecution, , Afghanistan

Squeezing a balloon? Challenging the nexus between organised crime and corruption

U4 Issue | Jul 2009

Corruption and organised crime are of great concern to the international community: while the first is regarded as one of the greatest barriers to development, ...

Political corruption, organised crime, illicit financial flows, international drivers of corruption

Compensatory Livestock Thievery: A New Trend in Economic Crime In Dilling/South Kordofan State (2014–2016)

Sudan Working Paper | Aug 2017

“Compensatory livestock thievery” within the greater Dilling locality in South Kordofan State (SKS) is an economic crime that was born out ...

livestock, Economic crime, Compensatory, Thievery, Practitioner, Victim, Broker, ARUSS, Sudan, Dilling, South Kordofan State

Corruption - New Strategies

Book Chapter | May 2015

New strategies on international financial crimes must remove implementation barriers, and understand how institutions govern corruption. Emerging strategies ...

Financial crime, anti-corruption, strategy, historical institutionalism

Corruption and state-corporate crime in fisheries

U4 Issue | Jan 2015

This U4 Issue paper describes corruption in the fisheries sector through the lens of state-corporate crime. It presents a case study from Senegal where ...

natural resource management

Understanding effects of corruption on law enforcement and environmental crime

TNRC Publication | Dec 2019

Law enforcement agencies monitor and enforce laws that protect landscapes, seascapes, and the species that inhabit them. Corruption helps violators circumvent ...

Anti-corruption, law enforcement, environmental crime, impunity, legal sanctions

Corruption and Wildlife Crime: A Focus on Caviar Trade

Report in External Series | Feb 2019

Produced by TRAFFIC, WWF, U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre (U4 ACRC), Northumbria and Utrecht Universities, "Corruption and wildlife crime: A focus ...

Corruption, anti-corruption, wildlife crime, caviar trade

Assessing judicial performance in Indonesia: the Court for Corruption Crimes

Journal Article | Nov 2014

New specialized courts have emerged in many countries, both in response to international pressure for legal reform and reflecting states’ own choice. ...

Indonesia

Security and remilitarization in the name of democracy: The impact of global crime control policies in Honduras

CMI Working Paper | Sep 2015

During the past decade, the Honduran government has introduced hard-line security policies in order to reduce the alarming levels of crime and delinquency ...

Military, civil-military relations, security politics, Honduras

'He should learn that he cannot get a woman for free’: Male elopers and constructions of masculinity in the Afghan justice system

Journal Article | Mar 2020

This article explores constructions of gender, masculinity, and class in moral crimes prosecutions, and their legal aftermaths in Afghanistan. It argues ...

law, Middle East, class, marriage, sexualities, Afghanistan

Corruption and Wildlife Trafficking: The Elephant in the Room

Newspaper Op-Ed | Sep 2016

Wildlife trafficking is high on conservation and political agendas. It is also increasingly high on the global crime agenda. Rightly so: corruption was ...

Wildlife crime, wildlife conservation, anti-corruption, corruption, CITES

The politicization of abortion and hippocratic disobedience in Islamist Sudan

Journal Article | Dec 2019

In Sudan's Islamist state, abortion is politicized through its association to illegal pregnancy. Fornication is crime against God punishable with 100 ...

Sudan

Hard won wisdom: What conservationists need to know about wildlife-related corruption

Report in External Series | Dec 2016

Wildlife crime is big business — by some estimates it is the fourth largest source of illegal trade after drugs, counterfeit goods and human trafficking. ...

wildlife crime, anti-corruption, wildlife conservation

Legal Reform or Erasure of History? The Politics of Moral Crimes in Afghanistan

Journal Article | Aug 2020

Legal Reform or Erasure of History? The Politics of Moral Crimes in Afghanistan Aziz Hakimi, Masooma

The resource bites back: Entry-points for addressing corruption in wildlife crime

U4 Issue | Nov 2016

Corruption has recently risen up the global wildlife conservation agenda with a series of international agreements highlighting the role of corruption ...

natural resource management

Lectures on corruption and procurement

Project | Sep - Dec 2003

This project was part of an EU programme in Albania which was established to reduce corruption and other forms of economic crime, and to strengthen local ...

Corruption, procurement, Albania

Using money laundering investigations to fight corruption in developing countries: Domestic obstacles and strategies to overcome them

U4 Issue | Nov 2012

Anti-money laundering systems have the potential to curb the use of proceeds of corruption and other crimes by the perpetrators. An effectively implemented ...

Money laundering, Illicit financial flows, Law enforcement, Coordination financial crimes, Investigation, Mutual legal assistance, international drivers of corruption, Albania, Tanzania