Economic Crime: From Conception to Response

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 UK and the USA 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.

Mark Button is Professor of Criminology and Director of the Centre for Counter Fraud Studies at the University of Portsmouth, UK.

Branislav Hock is a senior lecturer in Economic Crime at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Portsmouth, UK.

David Shepherd is a senior lecturer in Economic Crime at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Portsmouth, UK.