proceeds of crime and reverse onus

Money for Crime and Money from Crime: Financing crime and laundering crime proceeds

This article summarises briefly what is known internationally about how ‘organised crimes’ are financed and how this differs from the financing of licit businesses. It shows how illicit financing might and does operate, noting that a key issue is the social capital of offenders and their access to illicit finance which ironically, may be easier if controls make it harder to launder money. It th...

Bonus? No, just an onus.

Interorganellar communication and the onus of being eukaryotic.

The fossil record shows that prokaryotes—the cyanobacteria in particular— appeared on earth about three and a half billion years ago. This development is impressively speedy in light of the fact that it was only 3.8 billion years ago that the earth cooled sufficiently to allow solid rocks to form. Indeed, eukaryotes didn’t evolve until about one and a half billion years ago, or two billion year...

Reverse Sampling: Holding Lotteries to Allocate the Proceeds of Small-Claims Class Actions

Small-claims class actions pose a unique dilemma: individual awards are small, and it is often not feasible to distribute them to each and every plaintiff. Courts have devised several alternative allocation procedures to cope with this problem, but none are satisfactory. This Article proposes a different method: paying more money to fewer, randomly sampled claimants. As each individual award en...

Fake war crime image detection by reverse image search

In the media, images of war crimes are often shared, which in reality come from other contexts or other war sites. In this paper an approach is proposed to detect duplicate or fake war crime images. For this, the bag of visual words model is used in conjunction with localized soft assignment coding and the k-nn classifier. For evaluation, a data set with 600 images of war crimes was crawled. Di...

Interorganellar Communication and the Onus of Being Eukaryotic

The fossil record shows that prokaryotes—the cyanobacteria in particular— appeared on earth about three and a half billion years ago. This development is impressively speedy in light of the fact that it was only 3.8 billion years ago that the earth cooled sufficiently to allow solid rocks to form. Indeed, eukaryotes didn’t evolve until about one and a half billion years ago, or two billion year...