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

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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

Managing complex business problems requires decision makers to take a systemic perspective and utilize tools that can generate knowledge from the interdependencies of the system’s complex properties. As such, the current research focuses on an important yet ambiguous business problem–bribery. Using the Global Competit…

• ŞULE ÖNSEL EKİCİ

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Türkiye'de son yıllarda suç oranlarının arttığı yönündeki genel görüş kamuoyunda önemli ölçüde destek bulmaktadır. Ayrıca ülkedeki suç miktarının artmasında sosyal ve ekonomik faktörlerin önemli rol oynadığı da ileri sürülmektedir. Bu çalışmanın amacı 81 ili kapsayan sosyal ve ekonomik unsurların bu süreçte ne derece…

• NECMİYE CÖMERTLER

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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