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

eng

pages cm.

9780367533878 (paperback)

"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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

343.973 E266 2022

UNOV Library > UNLV General Collection

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

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343.973 E266 2022