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  1. Six Acres and a Third
    The Classic Nineteenth-Century Novel about Colonial India
    Author: Senapati, Fakir Mohan
    Published: [2005]; ©2005
    Publisher:  University of California Press, Berkeley, CA

    This sly and humorous novel by Fakir Mohan Senapati—one of the pioneering spirits of modern Indian literature and an early activist in the fight against the destruction of native Indian languages—is both a literary work and a historical document. A... more

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    This sly and humorous novel by Fakir Mohan Senapati—one of the pioneering spirits of modern Indian literature and an early activist in the fight against the destruction of native Indian languages—is both a literary work and a historical document. A text that makes use—and deliberate misuse—of both British and Indian literary conventions, Six Acres and a Third provides a unique "view from below" of Indian village life under colonial rule. Set in Orissa in the 1830s, the novel focuses on a small plot of land, tracing the lives and fortunes of people who are affected by the way this property is sold and resold, as new legal arrangements emerge and new types of people come to populate and transform the social landscape. This graceful translation faithfully conveys the rare and compelling account of how the more unsavory aspects of colonialism affected life in rural India

     
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  2. Global oil theft
    impact and policy responses
    Author: Romsom, Etienne
    Published: February 2022
    Publisher:  United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, Helsinki, Finland

    This paper, the first of two on global oil theft and fraud, discusses the prevalence, methods, and consequences of global oil theft, valued at US$133 billion per year and equivalent to 5-7 per cent of the global market for crude oil and petroleum... more

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    This paper, the first of two on global oil theft and fraud, discusses the prevalence, methods, and consequences of global oil theft, valued at US$133 billion per year and equivalent to 5-7 per cent of the global market for crude oil and petroleum fuels. However, the impact of oil theft is significantly larger than the value of theft itself. Government tax yields have been assessed for 30 developing countries associated with oil theft and found to be significantly lower than in the International Monetary Fund's benchmark study. Oil theft, smuggling, and illicit trade in petroleum products are often seen as lesser forms of crime than human trafficking, the drugs trade, smuggling of weapons, kidnapping, and terrorism. However, oil theft as an act of opportunity tends to evolve into organized crime and, if left unchecked, oil theft may interlink with other organized crime activities and groups. Actions against oil theft should target the transnational crime syndicates that continue to find ways to replicate their thefts by adapting their theft strategies and business models. However, there is a lack of basic data, including how much oil is stolen, how the stolen oil is transported, and how illicit oil transactions are conducted. The mixing of legal commercial operations with illegal oil theft activities and fraud obscures many oil theft crimes.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789292671471
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    hdl: 10419/259372
    Series: WIDER working paper ; 2022, 16
    Subjects: oil; fuel; theft; corruption; transnational crime; domestic revenue mobilization; tax evasion and avoidance
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 47 Seiten), Illustrationen
  3. Punishment and crime
    the impact of felony conviction on criminal activity
    Author: Jackson, Osborne
    Published: [2020]
    Publisher:  Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, [Boston, MA]

    This paper uses increases in felony larceny thresholds as a negative shock to felony conviction probability to examine the impact of punishment severity on criminal behavior. In the theft value distribution between old and new larceny thresholds... more

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    This paper uses increases in felony larceny thresholds as a negative shock to felony conviction probability to examine the impact of punishment severity on criminal behavior. In the theft value distribution between old and new larceny thresholds ("response region"), higher thresholds cause a 2 percent increase in the average larceny value within 120 days of enactment. However, within five years of enactment, response region average larceny values and rates decline 2 percent and 13 percent, respectively, in low-wage areas. Thus, under certain market conditions, smaller expected penalties may reduce incentives and deter crime in the long run.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    hdl: 10419/227936
    Edition: This version: October 2019
    Series: Working papers / Federal Reserve Bank of Boston ; no. 20, 1
    Subjects: felony conviction; larceny thresholds; crime; theft; labor supply
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 80 Seiten), Illustrationen
  4. Less cash, less theft?
    evidence from fintech development in the People's Republic of China
    Author: Jiang, Hongze; Liang, Pinghan
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo, Japan

    This research investigates the impact of Fintech development on an important type of crime: theft. Based on Becker's rational criminal theory, we suggest that Fintech development could mitigate theft activities by increasing the earnings from... more

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    This research investigates the impact of Fintech development on an important type of crime: theft. Based on Becker's rational criminal theory, we suggest that Fintech development could mitigate theft activities by increasing the earnings from legitimate work, relaxing potential criminals' financial constraints, and reducing the expected gains from theft. We established a unique dataset containing information on more than 1 million theft defendants during the period 2014-18, which we extracted from 874,000 judgment statements. Then, we aggregated them to construct a city-year panel of theft activities and matched it with the city-level economic activities and Fintech development level. The results show that a 1 standard deviation increase in the Fintech development level has a significant association with a 0.39 standard deviation decrease in thefts' density. Robustness checks and instrumental variable estimation support the main results. Further, the development of Fintech reduces thefts' density by reducing residents' cash holding and providing more job opportunities. Finally, we utilized a nationally representative household survey to estimate the cost of theft for households, finding that victims suffer from more mental health problems, increasing their health expenditure. Our results suggest an unexpected source of welfare gain from the development of Fintech: an improvement in public security.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    hdl: 10419/249461
    Series: ADBI working paper series ; no. 1282 (August 2021)
    Subjects: fintech; theft; crime; People's Republic of China
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  5. Ostracism and theft in heterogeneous groups
    Author: Baier, Alexandra; Balafoutas, Loukas; Jaber-Lopez, Tarek
    Published: [2021]
    Publisher:  Research platform Empirical and Experimental Economics, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

    Ostracism, or exclusion by peers, has been practiced since ancient times as a severe form of punishment against transgressors of laws or social norms. The purpose of this paper is to offer a comprehensive analysis on how ostracism affects behavior... more

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    Ostracism, or exclusion by peers, has been practiced since ancient times as a severe form of punishment against transgressors of laws or social norms. The purpose of this paper is to offer a comprehensive analysis on how ostracism affects behavior and the functioning of a social group. We present data from a laboratory experiment, in which participants face a social dilemma on how to allocate limited resources between a productive activity and theft, and are given the opportunity to exclude members of their group by means of majority voting. Our main treatment features an environment with heterogeneity in productivity within groups, thus creating inequalities in economic opportunities and income. We find that exclusion is an effective form of punishment and decreases theft by excluded members once they are re-admitted into the group. However, it also leads to some retaliation by low-productivity members. A particularly worrisome aspect of exclusion is that punished group members are stigmatized and have a higher probability of facing exclusion again. We discuss implications of our findings for penal systems and their capacity to rehabilitate prisoners.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
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    hdl: 10419/240447
    Edition: This version: 22.06.2021
    Series: Working papers in economics and statistics ; 2021, 19
    Subjects: ostracism; social dilemma; theft; rehabilitation; heterogeneous groups
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  6. Countering global oil theft
    responses and solutions
    Author: Romsom, Etienne
    Published: March 2022
    Publisher:  United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, Helsinki, Finland

    This second of two papers on global oil theft discusses ways to reduce oil theft, misappropriation, and fraud. At US$133 billion per year, oil is the largest stolen natural resource globally, while fuel is the most smuggled natural resource. Oil... more

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    This second of two papers on global oil theft discusses ways to reduce oil theft, misappropriation, and fraud. At US$133 billion per year, oil is the largest stolen natural resource globally, while fuel is the most smuggled natural resource. Oil theft equates to 5-7 per cent of the global market for crude oil and petroleum fuels. It is so engrained in the energy supply chain that thefts are priced in by traders and tolerated by many shipping companies as petty theft. Oil theft and related insecurity have substantial negative economic effects on developing countries, whether they produce oil or not. In 2012, non-oil-producing Benin saw a 28 per cent drop in taxable income after a spate of oil tanker hijacking incidents in the Gulf of Guinea in 2011. In Nigeria, the oil capacity shut-in and amount of oil deferred is more than twice the amount estimated as stolen, with a US$20 billion annual loss in petroleum profit tax-63 per cent of total government tax revenue in 2019. Organized oil crime syndicates are often transnational and conduct theft and fraud professionally, exploiting gaps in jurisdiction and adapting their practices when law enforcement becomes more effective. They evolve from ship piracy to stealing tanker cargoes to kidnapping tanker crews; from physical ransom of assets to digital hijacking via ransomware. The proceeds of oil theft often finance other organized crime, and it triggers violence against the community and in crime-on-crime activities. Twelve commonalities in oil theft and fraud have been identified that can direct international solutions, in three target areas: stolen oil volumes, stolen oil transport, and stolen oil money. Prosecution for acts of bribery offers opportunities for action: transport of or payment for illegal oil could constitute a bribe under the US Foreign Corrupt Practice Act if government officials were involved in the transaction or shipment. Bribe charges could be raised for paid 'services' that facilitate oil theft (through action or non-action).

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
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    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9789292671662
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    hdl: 10419/259391
    Series: WIDER working paper ; 2022, 35
    Subjects: oil; fuel; theft; corruption; transnational crime; tax evasion and avoidance; piracy; digital ransomware
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 65 Seiten), Illustrationen
  7. B. J. Harrison Reads The 200,000 Franc Reward
    Author: Leblanc, Maurice
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen

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    Contributor: Harrison, B. J. (Erzähler)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book; Data medium
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9788726572940
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    Edition: ungekürzte Ausgabe
    Series: The Classic Tales with B. J. Harrison
    Other subjects: (Produktform)Downloadable audio file; (BISAC Subject Heading)FIC022030; (Produktform (spezifisch))MP3 format; (BISAC Subject Heading)FIC004000; (VLB-WN)9111; Maurice Leblanc; literary classic; short stories; heist; police detective; theft; Paris; Sherlock Holmes; Arthur Conan Doyle; investigation; detective fiction; French literature; Ory Su; cosy crime; adventure stories; Lupin; thief; robbery; baroness; (VLB-WN)9114
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  8. B. J. Harrison Reads The Red Silk Scarf
    Author: Leblanc, Maurice
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen

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    Contributor: Harrison, B. J. (Erzähler); Leblanc, Maurice (Künstler)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book; Data medium
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    ISBN: 9788726572902
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    Edition: ungekürzte Ausgabe
    Series: The Classic Tales with B. J. Harrison
    Other subjects: (Produktform)Downloadable audio file; (BISAC Subject Heading)FIC022030; (Produktform (spezifisch))MP3 format; (BISAC Subject Heading)FIC004000; (VLB-WN)9111; Maurice Leblanc; literary classic; short stories; heist; police detective; theft; Paris; Sherlock Holmes; Arthur Conan Doyle; investigation; detective fiction; French literature; Ory Su; cosy crime; adventure stories; Lupin; thief; (VLB-WN)9114
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  9. B. J. Harrison Reads The Wedding Ring
    Author: Leblanc, Maurice
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  SAGA Egmont, Copenhagen

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    Contributor: Harrison, B. J. (Erzähler); Leblanc, Maurice (Künstler)
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    Media type: Book; Data medium
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9788726572933
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    Edition: ungekürzte Ausgabe
    Series: The Classic Tales with B. J. Harrison
    Other subjects: (Produktform)Downloadable audio file; (BISAC Subject Heading)FIC022030; (Produktform (spezifisch))MP3 format; (BISAC Subject Heading)FIC004000; (VLB-WN)9111; Maurice Leblanc; literary classic; short stories; heist; police detective; theft; Paris; Sherlock Holmes; Arthur Conan Doyle; investigation; detective fiction; French literature; Ory Su; cosy crime; adventure stories; Lupin; thief; (VLB-WN)9114
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