Economic Crime

<p>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. <i>Economic Crime: From Conception to Response </i>aims to change that and covers:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>definitions of the key premises of economic crime as the academic sub-discipline within criminology;</li> <p> </p> <li>an overview of the key research on each of the crimes associated with economic crime;</li> <p> </p> <li>public private and global responses to economic crime across its different forms and sectors of the economy both within the UK and globally. </li> </ul><p>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. </p>