ON THE ECONOMICS OF ORGANIZED CRIME By Vimal Kumar and Stergios Skaperdas Department of Economics University of California‚ Irvine Irvine‚ CA 92697 Revised: February 13‚ 2008 Prepared for inclusion in: Garoupa‚ Nuno (ed.)‚ Criminal Law and Economics ABSTRACT: The core function of organized crime is the selling of protection. Protection can be real‚ against third-party crime‚ or manufactured by the organized crime groups themselves. Mafias and gangs emerge in areas of weak state control‚ because
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customers in the store is 350‚ I=350. - 4‚200 customers go through the system in a 14 hr. day. Thus‚ the throughput rate (R) is 4200 customers/day or 4200/14 = 300 customers/hr. - Applying Little’s Law (I=R*T) the time an average customer spends in the store is: T=I/R = 350/300 = 1.17 hours = 70 minutes 2. In 2006‚ Shouldice Hospital admitted 14‚965 patients. In 2007‚ a 20% increase in admissions is expected. Currently the hospital has 390 beds. Assume the hospital operates 365 days a year (and‚ please
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1. What are some of the differences between crime scene investigations on TV and those that occur in real life? What are some of the similarities? The differences between crime scene and TV is that in TV shows they automatically lead to the convicted or always reveal the truth. However there’s a lot more to come into play and rarely simple. In real life it takes time to see the small things. It is 10 times more gruesome because you see the worst of what human beings are capable of. They however are
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probability of not being directly or indirectly exposed to crime is brutally slim (Harris & Radealli‚ 2007). In other countries‚ conversations in and around the households are fairly universal (Von Klemperer‚ 2009). Sadly the same can’t be said for South Africa. In South African households‚ conversations relate to crime (Von Klemperer‚ 2009). Fear of crime can be defined as an inclusion of unclear emotional states‚ perceptions of risk and viewpoints‚ which in essence will be different for each and every individual
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Do you think Boxer was a threat to Napoleon? I believe Boxer helped Napoleon many times keeping the animals at bay‚ and not revolting against him. Boxer was a model to the other animals‚ they looked up to him‚ tried to work as hard as him. Boxer played as a role model to the other animals. Boxer was a role model to the animals‚ a helper for Napoleon‚ and a respected comrade that kept the animals at bay. Boxer keeps the animals at bay. Every time that Napoleon made a decision that the animals didn’t
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Starting up a business need a lot of research and work to be successful‚ there are aspects that the company must fallow in order to prevent any failure or problems. The most important aspects are; business ethics which is practices internally and externally‚ laws and regulations which are basically from the government and finally being socially responsible. These aspects all work together as a whole package; on the other hand they have their differences. The meaning of being socially responsible
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I live in Seymour‚ Tennessee‚ which is just South of Knoxville‚ the third largest city in the state. When I first moved there in 1972‚ Seymour was considered very rural‚ but now is littered with subdivisions and many businesses. There are still several large agriculture areas spread around the residential areas. People first moved to Seymour to avoid the high crime rates and violent crimes of the cities. In the 1970’s crimes were almost nonexistent and included acts such as thefts‚ holiday vandalisms
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affecting the computer system in terms of data loss and malfunctioning of programs. By taking simple precautionary measures the unexpected hazards can be completely eliminated. The most significant preventive measure is timely backing up the data. The other involves physical safety and installation of anti-virus programs. One factor to be kept in mind is that without proper physical safety no data is safe‚ as the hardware parts including motherboard‚ processor‚ and storage system constitute a computer
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Categories of Computer Crime Smith Strayer University CIS170 Wk2 Professor Masudur Chowdhury July 4‚ 2013 Explain in detail the four common categories of computer crimes and provide at least one example for each. There are many different types of computer crime and multiple ways to categorize them. I will discuss four categories in detail to shine light on how vulnerable people are‚ when we choose to use a personal or publicly used computer to transmit confidential information
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Unit 6. Normal Distribution Solution to problems Statistics I. International Group Departamento de Economa Aplicada Universitat de Valncia May 20‚ 2010 Problem 35 Random variable X : weekly ticket sales (units) of a museum. X ∼ N(1000‚ 180) Find the probability of weekly sales exceeding 850 tickets. Find the probability of the interval 1000 to 1200 Take 5 weeks at random. Find the probability of weekly sales not exceeding 850 tickets in more than two weeks Ticket price is 4.5 Euros
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