Economic crime : from conception to response / Mark Button, Branislav Hock and David Shepherd.

By:

Button, Mark [author.]

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Material type: Text

TextSeries: Global issues in crime and justicePublisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022Description: xvi, 297p. : ill. ; 25cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780367533861
9780367533878

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DDC classification:

364.16/8 23/eng/20220106

LOC classification:

HV6768 .B87 2022

Contents:

Economic Crime and Economic Criminology -- Fraud -- Bribery and Corruption -- Cartel and Antitrust Offences -- Economic Cybercrime -- Intellectual Property Crime and Illicit Trade -- Industrial and Economic Espionage -- Money Laundering -- Explaining Economic Crime -- Economic Crime: Law and Regulation -- State and Transnational Policing of Economic Crime -- Private Policing of Economic Crime -- Conclusion: An Agenda for Economic Criminologists and Economic Crime Practitioners.

Summary: "This book is the first attempt to establish economic crime as a new sub-discipline within criminology. Fraud, corruption, bribery, money laundering, price-fixing cartels and intellectual property crimes pursued typically for financial and professional gain, have devastating consequences for the prosperity of economic life. While most police forces in the United Kingdom and United States have an 'economic crime' department, and many European bodies such as Europol use the term and develop strategies and structures to deal with it, it is yet to grain traction as a widely used term in the academic community. Economic Crime: From Conception to Response aims to change that and covers: definitions of the key premises of economic crime as the academic sub-discipline within criminology, an overview of the key research on each of the crimes associated with economic crime, public, private, and global responses to economic crime across its different forms and sectors of the economy, both within the UK and globally. This book is an essential resource for students, academics and practitioners engaged with aspects of economic crime, as well as the related areas of financial crime, white-collar crime and crimes of the powerful"-- Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General books	PAC UNIVERSITY General Stacks	Non-fiction	HV6768 .B87 2022 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C.1	Available		27828
General books	PAC UNIVERSITY General Stacks	Non-fiction	HV6768 .B87 2022 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C.2	Available		27829

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This book is the first attempt to establish economic crime as a new sub-discipline within criminology. Fraud, corruption, bribery, money laundering, price-fixing cartels and intellectual property crimes pursued typically for financial and professional gain, have devastating consequences for the prosperity of economic life. While most police forces in the United Kingdom and United States have an 'economic crime' department, and many European bodies such as Europol use the term and develop strategies and structures to deal with it, it is yet to grain traction as a widely used term in the academic community. Economic Crime: From Conception to Response aims to change that and covers: definitions of the key premises of economic crime as the academic sub-discipline within criminology, an overview of the key research on each of the crimes associated with economic crime, public, private, and global responses to economic crime across its different forms and sectors of the economy, both within the UK and globally. This book is an essential resource for students, academics and practitioners engaged with aspects of economic crime, as well as the related areas of financial crime, white-collar crime and crimes of the powerful"-- Provided by publisher.