This paper focuses on how organized crime in Bulgaria uses political corruption to achieve its goals. It focuses, though, on one specific type of criminal structures, the ones controlled by former security officers. More specifically it analyzes the criminal careers of two well known Bulgarian crime figures and former security officers. The way they use the instrument of corruption changes though the years when they evolve from relatively unimportant racketeers into powerful local oligarchs. |
Zoekresultaat: 6 artikelen
Jaar 2009 xArtikel |
Georganiseerde misdaad, corruptie en politiek in Bulgarije |
Tijdschrift | Justitiële verkenningen, Aflevering 3 2009 |
Auteurs | P. Gounev en T. Bezlov |
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De ontwikkeling van de criminaliteit op CuraçaoGeen reden voor moedeloosheid |
Tijdschrift | Justitiële verkenningen, Aflevering 5 2009 |
Auteurs | A.W. Weenink |
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In the years 2000-2003 crime on Curaçao seemed to be going out of control and the economy was virtually stagnant with low growth and high unemployment. This situation has changed significantly since 2005. The author shows that a targeted approach by the authorities pushed back major crime problems like the smuggling of cocaine on passenger flights, armed robberies and homicides. However only a permanent effort can guarantee the continuation of this success. Corruption and nepotism are still vibrant, but mainly concern individuals, not institutions as a whole, while the judiciary actively prosecutes corrupt officials. In the long run not only repression, but preventive measures are needed as well. A major cause of corruption and nepotism is the small scale of island life, in combination with economic protectionism and state ownership of companies. Structural adjustments in economic institutions and policy in recent years heralded the return of economic growth and employment. More adjustments in economic policy and institutions could further reduce incentives for corruption; these might also lead to the opening up of Curaçao's rigid labour markets for the many unemployed youngsters. A more autonomous Curaçao faces serious challenges, but the island's record so far gives no reason for despondency. |
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Implosie van de Nederlandse Antillen |
Tijdschrift | Justitiële verkenningen, Aflevering 5 2009 |
Auteurs | L. de Jong |
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How to understand the disintegration of the Dutch Caribbean? The Kingdom of the Netherlands comprising three countries - the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles, and Aruba - will be reordered. The Netherlands Antilles will cease to exist as a separate country. Curaçao and Sint Maarten will acquire country status within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, just as Aruba did in 1986, though theirs will be of a different status and with less autonomy. The islands Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, the so-called BES islands, will be integrated into the Netherlands as public authorities (openbare lichamen); as such the BES islands will be administered by the Netherlands while retaining local government functions (just as municipalities in the Netherlands). |
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Tijdschrift | Justitiële verkenningen, Aflevering 5 2009 |
Auteurs | M.P.C. Scheepmaker |
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Zeeroof in AfrikaMondiale en lokale verklaringen voor piratenactiviteit in Nigeria en Somalië |
Tijdschrift | Justitiële verkenningen, Aflevering 8 2009 |
Auteurs | S. Eklöf Amirell |
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This article aims to explain where, when, how and why piratical activity has taken off in Nigeria and Somalia since the 1970s. The geographical and historical conditions of the continent are compared with those of the other main region of piratical activity in the world during recent decades, Southeast Asia. A critical evaluation is then made of the available information concerning the problem and the different possible, local and global, explanations for the recent surge in African piracy, including opportunity, inequality and the proliferation of small and light weapons. The widespread notion that contemporary piracy can be explained with reference to state failure is challenged, and the rise of organized piratical activity, particularly in the Niger Delta and off the Somali coast, is instead understood as a result of the interaction of local social and political dynamics with transnational and global influences. |
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Late starters en volwassen dadersGeorganiseerde misdaad en justitiële voorgeschiedenissen |
Tijdschrift | Tijdschrift voor Criminologie, Aflevering 1 2009 |
Trefwoorden | georganiseerde misdaad, criminele carrières, volwassen starters, levensloopcriminologie, trajectanalyse |
Auteurs | Drs. Vere van Koppen, Dr. Christianne de Poot, Dr. Edward Kleemans e.a. |
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This study investigates criminal trajectories of individuals involved in organised crime. It combines qualitative information from the Organized Crime Monitor with rap sheets extracted from the Dutch Judicial Documentation System. A semi-parametric group model is used to cluster 854 individuals into groups with similar developmental trajectories, preceding the organised crime index case. Four judicial trajectories are identified: an early starters group with a high peak in late adolescence (11 percent); a persistent group of offenders with crimes from early adolescence until adulthood (30 percent); a unique group of adult onset offenders (40 percent); and a group of offenders without judicial contacts prior to the index case (19 percent). Largely, suspects who fulfilled different roles in criminal groups (leaders, coordinators, lower-level suspects) are equally distributed over the trajectory groups and the same applies to different types of criminal activities. |