The prevalence of motorcycle street racing is increasing in Malaysia and has become a major public concern. As a major focus of the international studies were on illegal car racing overseas, and there are only a limited number of studies address illegal motorcycle street racing. Thus, this study aims to examine the high-risk activities of motorcycle street racers, their personality and the asso...

Throughout Southeast Asia, the situation today is essentially the same. A deadly combination of poorly regulated commercial logging and a thriving illegal timber trade are decimating forest resources across the region. According to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, SE Asia has the highest rate of deforestation in the world (Fahn 2003). Ecological destruction of this scale has profound...

The aim of this study is to explore research trends in computer crime and cybercrime from 1968 to 2009. The findings of the current study will provide some insight into scholarly activity related to computer crime and cybercrime and will be useful in tracking computer user’s illegal behavior research trends. Our other goal is to explore the range of the theoretical lens that can be used to unde...

A drug is any chemical you take that affects the way your body works. Alcohol, caffeine, aspirin and nicotine are all drugs. A drug must be able to pass from your body into your brain. Once inside your brain, drugs can change the messages your brain cells are sending to each other, and to the rest of your body. They do this by interfering with your brain's own chemical signals: neurotransmitter...

This paper constructs a political equilibrium in which firms and unions bargain over wages and workers and capitalists lobby the government for taxation, labor market regulation and immigration policy. The main findings are the following. It is in the native workers’ interests to ban firms’ direct recruitment from abroad. Otherwise, the ruling elite captures the surplus of the labor unions by t...

This paper concentrates on both the positive and normative effects of punishments that enforce laws to make production and consumption of particular goods illegal, with illegal drugs as the main example. Optimal public expenditures on apprehension and conviction of illegal suppliers obviously depend on the extent of the difference between the social and private value of consumption of illegal g...

BACKGROUND Little research has been done to examine whether smokers switch to illegal or roll-your-own (RYO) cigarettes in response to a change in their relative price. OBJECTIVE This paper explores how relative prices between three cigarette forms (manufactured legal, manufactured illegal and RYO cigarettes) are associated with the choice of one form over another after controlling for covari...

This study examined the implications and causes of illegal refuse dumps in Ilorin South Local Government Area, Kwara State. A descriptive survey method was adopted for the study. The population of the study were all the people in Ilorin South Local Government Area. A sample of 500 respondents was randomly selected from the various wards in the local government area. Questionnaire was the instru...