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Looting is the act of stealing, or the taking of goods by force, typically in the midst of a military, political, or other social crisis, such as war, [1] natural disasters (where law and civil enforcement are temporarily ineffective), [2] or rioting. [3]
Brigandage is the life and practice of highway robbery and plunder. [1] It is practiced by a brigand, a person who is typically part of a gang and lives by pillage and robbery. [2] The word brigand entered English as brigant via French from Italian as early as 1400.
Raubwirtschaft—German for a "plunder" or "robber economy"—is viewed as a specific form of kleptocracy in which the whole economy of the state is based on robbing (looting and plundering) conquered territories.
A person who engages in banditry is known as a bandit and primarily commits crimes such as extortion, robbery, kidnapping, and murder, either as an individual or in groups. Banditry is a vague concept of criminality and in modern usage can be synonymous with gangsterism , brigandage , marauding , terrorism , piracy , and thievery .
For this purpose, Congress allocated ₱10 billion from funds transferred to the Philippine government by virtue of the December 10, 1997, Order of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court, adjudged by the Supreme Court of the Philippines as final and executory in Republic vs. Sandiganbayan on July 15, 2003, (G.R. No. 152154) as Marcos ill-gotten wealth ...
To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a solitude and call it peace. [ 3 ] Calgacus is not mentioned during or after the battle and he is not named as one of the hostages Agricola took with him after putting the Caledonians to flight.
The data suggest that for every incident of robbery without a weapon referred to local law enforcement from schools without regular contact with SROs, 3.54 are referred in schools with regular contact with SROs, with p < 0.001. This is after controlling for state statutes that require school officials to refer students to law enforcement for ...
Now, legal plunder may be exercised in an infinite multitude of ways. Hence come an infinite multitude of plans for organization; tariffs, protection, perquisites, gratuities, encouragements, progressive taxation, free public education, right to work, right to profit, right to wages, right to assistance, right to instruments of labor, gratuity ...