ORGANISED CRIME FINANCIAL CRIME AND C

Organised crime and financial crime are pressing global problems, increasingly recognised as policy priorities both by national governments and international bodies and corporations. This proudly interdisciplinary collection is built on the premise that these topics are too often artificially separated, both in scholarship and the classroom. Bringing together scholars from law, the social sciences, and the humanities, this book showcases a diverse range of perspectives on these complex and compelling global issues, and the criminal justice challenges that they pose.

The themes discussed include legal theory and procedure; regulation and enforcement; prevention and punishment; media representation and perception. Readers are encouraged to think outside traditional disciplinary bounds and form their own connections and conclusions inspired by the juxtaposition of perspectives rarely seen together in the same volume.

Dan Jasinski is a barrister (unregistered) and Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice at the University of Northampton. Dan’s current research focuses on the criminal process, and he has previously taught skills modules on the Bar Training Course, in addition to organised crime on the LLB.

Amber Phillips is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of the West of England. Having initially trained as a translator, her career as a criminologist began in 2012 while she was living and working in Calabria, Italy, as part of the EU-funded Leonardo da Vinci scheme. Her experiences with antimafia organisations in Calabria inspired her AHRC-funded PhD, which she successfully defended in 2018. As a researcher, Dr Phillips is primarily interested in transnational organised crime and mafia-type groups, as well as the impact of cultural representations and media narratives on crime control policy.

Ed Johnston is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Procedure at the University of Northampton. His research and teaching centres on the field of field of criminal justice and, in particular, on the law of disclosure, fair trial rights, and adversarial justice.