Contemporary Economic Crime: Issues and Challenges

This edited collection explores the culpability of corporate bodies and international organisations and examines the different responses to economic offences such as money laundering, bribery and corruption, cybercrime, market manipulation, insider trading and market abuse. In a world where corporations wield legal personhood, the legal intricacies of corporate criminal liability come to the forefront. While national and international lawmakers attempt to rein in corporate power, the ever‑evolving landscape demands a re‑evaluation of the current normative framework.

The heart of this book lies in its dual mission – firstly, to compare the different jurisdictional approaches to crimes committed by corporations, and secondly, to propose solutions to some of the challenges faced by lawmakers, policymakers and law enforcement. Expert contributors embark on a global journey from North America to the Asia Pacific via Europe, from Common Law jurisdictions to Civil Law ones, unravelling the diverse approaches to corporate and institutional crime. The challenges facing lawmakers, policymakers and law enforcement are explored throughout this book, alongside solutions to the complex issues they face, whether this involves money laundering, bribery and corruption, fraud, cybertrafficking and corporate involvement in human rights violations.

Contemporary Economic Crime: Issues and Challenges is an indispensable resource for anyone captivated by the dynamic dominion of white‑collar and corporate wrongdoing. It will be of interest to academics, legal practitioners, lawmakers, policymakers and law enforcement navigating the complex terrain of financial and corporate crime.

Michala Meiselles is senior law lecturer at Derby University’s Law School. She sits on the RASSO and hate crimes scrutiny panels for the Crown Prosecution Service in the East Midlands and has advised UNESCO on online safety and digital rights. Moreover, she is Director of an inter‑institutional think tank dedicated to corporate crime which explores white‑collar crime, cybercrime and modern slavery. Her research and teaching activities focus inter alia on financial crime, cybercrime and the role of digital providers in the fight against cybercrime.

Nicholas Ryder is a Professor of Financial Crime at Cardiff University’s School of Law and Politics and has played advisory roles both nationally (e.g. for the Home Office, the Home Affairs Select Committee the Law Commission, Transparency International, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) and internationally (e.g. NATO, United Nations, Cepol, Europol). He has created and edits Routledge’s Law of Financial Crime Series.

Penelope Giosa is Lecturer in Law at the University of Reading and Part-time Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. She is also Member of the Advisory Board of the George Washington University Competition and Innovation Lab and Convenor of the Comparative Law Section in the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS).