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The Messy Reality Of Organised Crime Research, Mark Findlay, Nafis Hanif
The Messy Reality Of Organised Crime Research, Mark Findlay, Nafis Hanif
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
The analysis starts out by confronting and exposing the ideological motivations for dualism in conventional organised crime research. In order to suggest a cognitive pathway beyond this restrictive normative frame, it is essential to appreciate its potency and resilience. Law enforcement language buoyed up by popular culture representations of gangs, syndicates and crime bosses have become the accepted starting point for much research in the field. Research from this perspective, we suggest, plays its own part in organised crime mystification and as such retards the critical utility of enterprise theory. Next the paper shows how distracted and distorted theorising infects …
International Bridges To Justice (Ibj) - Criminal Defence Training, Lien Centre For Social Innovation
International Bridges To Justice (Ibj) - Criminal Defence Training, Lien Centre For Social Innovation
Social Space
Criminal justice systems across the world continue to be plagued by problems such as arbitrary detention, torture and an inadequate knowledge of the rights of defendants. IBJ hopes to establish a legal resource hub for criminal defenders and justice practitioners across Asia by taking a collaborative and proactive approach with Asian governments and fostering leadership and innovation in the area of criminal justice reform.
The Case For Criminalising Primary Infringements Of Copyright – Perspectives From Singapore, Cheng Lim Saw
The Case For Criminalising Primary Infringements Of Copyright – Perspectives From Singapore, Cheng Lim Saw
Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law
Hitherto, criminal liability only attached to, inter alia, the commercial manufacture, importation, distribution and sale of infringing copies of copyright material.1 In the noncommercial context, it was also a criminal offence to distribute infringing materials that had a prejudicial impact on the copyright owner.2 The defendant therefore could not be subject to criminal prosecution for infringing acts that were not motivated by profit or that did not involve “prejudicial” distribution. Only civil liability attached to copyright infringements for what may be loosely termed “non-commercial” purposes. All this, of course, changed when the United States–Singapore Free Trade Agreement (USSFTA) was concluded …