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This scoping review addresses the academic gap regarding kinship-based organised crime in Northern Europe by identifying eight core structural and behavioural characteristics that distinguish these family-based networks from other forms of organised crime, ultimately calling for more empirical research to inform effective prevention strategies.
This study analyzes Australian court transcripts to develop a four-stage crime script of money mule operations across three financial tracks, offering evidence-based recommendations for targeted prevention strategies and multi-stakeholder collaboration.
This mixed-methods corpus-pragmatic study reveals that digital social media communication primarily reshapes English through lexical, orthographic, and multimodal innovations rather than syntactic changes, arguing that these findings necessitate the integration of digital registers and multimodal literacy into EFL pedagogy.
This mixed-methods study of Vietnamese undergraduates reveals that instrumental motivation influences English communication behavior indirectly through a sequential pathway where career-oriented goals first foster learning perseverance, which in turn strengthens English self-efficacy to drive actual communicative engagement.
Utilizing data from the 2022 Somali Integrated Household Budget Survey, this study reveals that women with disabilities in Somalia face a significant, independent disadvantage in employment opportunities, with their odds of working approximately 32% lower than those of women without disabilities after controlling for demographic and socioeconomic factors.
Drawing on ethnographic research in Harare, this article argues that youth touting ("mahwindi") is not merely a criminal nuisance but a vital survival strategy necessitated by economic decline and unemployment, urging authorities to move beyond ineffective criminalization and repression toward recognizing and constructively engaging with this embedded informal livelihood.
This article analyzes how media representations in post-communist Romania, Poland, and the Czech Republic (2000–2024) construct an unstable "soldier-hero" figure through the interplay of fictional and journalistic narratives, revealing how residual ethnic nationalism and Euro-Atlantic aspirations coexist to shape competing national identities and claims of belonging.
This systematic literature review introduces and validates the novel Power–Clientelism–Socialization–Development (PCSD) Framework, which integrates four theoretical traditions to explain how personalized political power in local governance creates a self-sustaining cycle of patronage that distorts human resource development outcomes in developing democracies.
This systematic literature review constructs a post-pandemic employee performance model for prosecutorial offices by synthesizing evidence that institutional trust acts as a critical mediating factor linking work-from-home arrangements, intrinsic motivation, and results-based supervision to individual and organizational effectiveness.
This quasi-experimental study of 77 Slovak preschoolers found that while an 8-week program of structured joint music–movement activities did not significantly increase overall teacher-perceived prosocial behavior, it led to a significant improvement in prosocial behavior and cooperative task success specifically among girls, with no comparable gains observed for boys.