Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance

Corruption, defined as the misuse of public power (office) for private benefit, is most likely to occur where public and private sec-tors meet. In other words, it occurs where public officials have a direct responsibility for the provision of a public service or application of specific regulations (Rose-Ackerman 1997:…

This article summarizes main trends, issues, actors, and activities regarding the operation and extension of human trafficking and smuggling via irregular border crossings in the Middle East. Its premise is that rather than the obvious involvement of hierarchical mafia‐type organized crime groups, globally articulated…

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• İBRAHİM SEMİH AKÇOMAK

Abstract:\n\nThe research aims at spatial and socio-economic analysis of landscape patterns in Baltic coastal area of Estonia. The process of active suburbanization, which is analyzed in the current work, is caused by complex socio-economical factors which arise from sociopolitical changes since the end of the USSR. S…

• SALAHEDDINE BENDAK

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• ALFREDO ANTONİO SAAD FILHO

Cryptocurrencies have been broadly scrutinised in recent times for a host of concerning regulatory and cybercriminality issues. Although steps have been taken to promote regulatory sufficiency in the near future, we examine the avenues through which this extremely high-risk industry can derive potentially devastating…

• AHMET ŞENSOY

Corruption, which is described as the use of public power for individual purposes is a complex concept. Since corruption’s roots are grounded in a country’s economic, political, legal, social and cultural structure, it threatens security, damages trust and public confidence in systems which affect people’s daily lives…

Elected governments sometimes deal with protests by authorizing the police to use less-lethal tools of repression: water cannons, tear gas, rubber bullets, and the like. When these tactics fail to end protests and instead spark larger,backlash movements, some governments reduce the level of violence but others increas…

• SELİM ERDEM AYTAÇ

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• TAMER BUDAK

Why does one terrorist group employ actions that win the hearts and minds of its constituency while another resorts to tactics that alienate their support? The paper investigates terrorist groups’ strategy of building reputation in their constituency/in-group population and non-constituency/out-group population. Study…

• İHSAN EFE TOKDEMİR

Rational choice theory is an approach used by social scientists to understand human behavior. This approach has long been the dominant paradigm in economics, but in recent decades it has become more widely used in other disciplines. It is basically about how incentives and constraints affect behavior. This article dis…