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A Research Agenda for Financial Crime
In this timely Research Agenda, Barry Rider has assembled a cast of internationally renowned experts to identify the most pressing questions and issues around financial crime, helping to inform our understanding of how best to protect our economies and financial institutions.
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Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.
In this timely Research Agenda, Barry Rider has assembled a cast of internationally renowned experts to identify the most pressing questions and issues around financial crime, helping to inform our understanding of how best to protect our economies and financial institutions.
The book begins by considering what is meant by the term ‘financial crime’, addressing how and to whom it causes harm, the ways in which we might evaluate its incidence and impact, and the increasing relevance of measures designed to disrupt economically-motivated criminals. Chapters explore the various factors that have led to the rise of financial crime in recent decades, from advances in technology to the practical issues in effective prevention and interdiction. Bringing together an array of perspectives from experts in law, criminology, and regulation and compliance, the book ultimately advances multiple agendas for future research to enhance our understanding of financial crime and better promote its prevention, containment, and management.
This incisive Research Agenda will be an invaluable resource for scholars of law, criminology, management studies, and compliance and risk. Its practical insights will also benefit criminal and regulatory lawyers, as well as legislators and researchers involved in the protection of their economies and financial institutions against financial crime.
In this timely Research Agenda, Barry Rider has assembled a cast of internationally renowned experts to identify the most pressing questions and issues around financial crime, helping to inform our understanding of how best to protect our economies and financial institutions.
The book begins by considering what is meant by the term ‘financial crime’, addressing how and to whom it causes harm, the ways in which we might evaluate its incidence and impact, and the increasing relevance of measures designed to disrupt economically-motivated criminals. Chapters explore the various factors that have led to the rise of financial crime in recent decades, from advances in technology to the practical issues in effective prevention and interdiction. Bringing together an array of perspectives from experts in law, criminology, and regulation and compliance, the book ultimately advances multiple agendas for future research to enhance our understanding of financial crime and better promote its prevention, containment, and management.
This incisive Research Agenda will be an invaluable resource for scholars of law, criminology, management studies, and compliance and risk. Its practical insights will also benefit criminal and regulatory lawyers, as well as legislators and researchers involved in the protection of their economies and financial institutions against financial crime.
Critical Acclaim
‘Professor Barry Rider, himself a first rate authority on economic crime, has corralled a team of 10 noted academics to produce a timely agenda for research into fraud. His theme of prevention, containment and management provides a convincing response to a neglected but vital sector of criminality which enjoys worryingly exponential growth.’
– Sir David Green CB QC, Former Director of the Serious Fraud Office
‘This is an impressive array of experts with practical experience of the fight against all kinds of financial crime. Their agenda for in-depth research into the surge facing legislators, prosecutors, courts and regulators is thought-provoking. Conclusion: unless Governments resource more research and take more effective measures to prevent and punish financial crime things will only get worse, everywhere and for everyone except the criminals.’
– Sir John Mummery, former Lord Justice of Appeal and former President of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal
‘The nature of financial crime has changed due to automation and globalisation. The research agenda needs to change too. This book provides the up-to-date guidance researchers need to use if they’re going to provide the advice society needs to battle economic crime.’
– Michael Mainelli, Chairman, Z/Yen Group, late Sheriff of the City of London 2019–2021
– Sir David Green CB QC, Former Director of the Serious Fraud Office
‘This is an impressive array of experts with practical experience of the fight against all kinds of financial crime. Their agenda for in-depth research into the surge facing legislators, prosecutors, courts and regulators is thought-provoking. Conclusion: unless Governments resource more research and take more effective measures to prevent and punish financial crime things will only get worse, everywhere and for everyone except the criminals.’
– Sir John Mummery, former Lord Justice of Appeal and former President of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal
‘The nature of financial crime has changed due to automation and globalisation. The research agenda needs to change too. This book provides the up-to-date guidance researchers need to use if they’re going to provide the advice society needs to battle economic crime.’
– Michael Mainelli, Chairman, Z/Yen Group, late Sheriff of the City of London 2019–2021
Contributors
Contributors: Richard Alexander, Andrew Haynes, Michael Levi, Richard Parlour, Amber Phillips, John Reading, Barry Rider OBE, G. Philip Rutledge, Eugene Soltes, Mary Alice Young
Contents
Contents:
Foreword xiii
Introduction xvii
1 Financial crime as an area of study and research 1
Barry Rider
2 Corporate misconduct’s relevance to society 31
Eugene Soltes
3 Financial crimes – a criminological research
perspective 49
Michael Levi
4 Controlling financial crime by utilizing the
criminal justice system 69
John Reading SC
5 Challenges in policing financial crime 89
Mary Alice Young and Amber Phillips
6 Financial crime: the regulator’s perspective 105
G Philip Rutledge
7 Financial regulation and fraudulent activity 125
Andrew Haynes
8 Cybercrime and cyber resilience 147
Richard Parlour
9 Research priorities for the international control
of economic and financial crime 169
Richard Alexander
Index 189
Foreword xiii
Introduction xvii
1 Financial crime as an area of study and research 1
Barry Rider
2 Corporate misconduct’s relevance to society 31
Eugene Soltes
3 Financial crimes – a criminological research
perspective 49
Michael Levi
4 Controlling financial crime by utilizing the
criminal justice system 69
John Reading SC
5 Challenges in policing financial crime 89
Mary Alice Young and Amber Phillips
6 Financial crime: the regulator’s perspective 105
G Philip Rutledge
7 Financial regulation and fraudulent activity 125
Andrew Haynes
8 Cybercrime and cyber resilience 147
Richard Parlour
9 Research priorities for the international control
of economic and financial crime 169
Richard Alexander
Index 189
