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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The Internet and its impact on developing countries: examples from China and India T. Kanti Srikantaiah Dominican University‚ River Forest‚ Illinois‚ USA and The Internet and its impact on China and India 199 Received February 1998 Revised March 1998 Dong Xiaoying Peking University‚ Beijing‚ China Introduction In the new information climate many countries are relying on electronic access to information through the Internet‚ which is revolutionising information management and information
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REGULATION OF SEXUALITY AND LAW OF CRIMES Regulation of Sexuality This thought-provoking term stands as the reason behind my choice of this topic. So far‚ among other things‚ Law School has taught me the importance of perceptual lenses through which people view events and issues. If you look at the world through feminist lenses‚ it will look one way. Through economist lenses‚ another. Though all perceptions‚ in my perception‚ hold a portion of truth and reasonability‚ I still see myself wearing
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Internet Bullying A freshman at Rutgers University‚ Tyler Clementi‚ posted a goodbye message on his Facebook page before he jumped to his death because of an Internet bullying incident. Tyler’s roommate‚ Dharun Ravi‚ and his friend‚ Molly Wei‚ secretly filmed Tyler during a "sexual encounter" in his dorm room and posted it live on the Internet. What the two thought was a harmless prank turned into something much more serious. According to ABC News‚ “Under New Jersey ’s invasion-of-privacy statutes
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at night‚ these tell us that we are living now in the modern world. Technology is anywhere in anytime. It has everything to offer.The internet is one of the products of technology. It is the general term that we use‚ while the World Wide Web is the specific term. With the use of computer and other devices/gadgets (cellphone‚ iPod‚ etc.) we can access the internet‚ and within the net we can go through different web sites that gives us information‚ services and entertainment. It can be applicable to
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Advantages & Disadvantages of the Internet in Education Read more : http://www.ehow.com/info_8109434_advantages-disadvantages-internet-education.html Nearly every classroom in America ’s schools can access the Internet‚ a number that grew from 35 percent in 1994‚ according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Some teachers use the Internet with every assignment while others take a different approach. As with any education technique‚ classroom Internet usage comes with both advantages
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The Internet is a world wide network of interconnected educational‚ governmental‚ and business computers. Anyone with a personal computer and a modem can communicate across the Internet. Internet has become the most common media of interacting with the rest of the world. Also known as the World Wide Web‚ it is a network of computers connected together from all over the world‚ allowing users to share and transmit information. The Internet has positively changed the face of modern day communication
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The technoculture related topic that I am going to explore is the phenomenon of Internet gambling. With the emergence and explosion of gambling on television such as the World Series of Poker of ESPN or The World Poker Tour on the Travel Channel‚ online gaming has quickly become a major player in the technoculture of contemporary society. I feel it is important to explore this issue because of American society ’s fascination and obsession with gambling. Gambling can and has become a very serious
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Strategy And Internet Michael E. Porter: Strategy and Internet After being developed in 1996‚ Internet continuously transforms world’s social interaction and activity. Nowadays‚ the importance of Internet in society is high that it is necessary for countries to have Internet access in order to be able to develop. One of the reasons is that Internet has a big impact in business industry since it’s discovery‚ for instance‚ in 2008‚ a study has shown that 77% of the US fastest growing companies
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The Internet and Privacy There has been a lot of controversy about the internet and its privacy. Today‚ some say you have no privacy with anything you do on the web. They say that the government is taking away the public’s privacy because they can monitor everything that happens on the internet. Even though most of this is true‚ there are plenty of good things to come from it. In this essay I will be writing about the internet and its privacy. The lack of privacy that comes with technology
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