As the incidences of traditional crime rates have begun to decline, there has been a surge and shift in the kinds of criminal activities perpetuated by individuals. The recent shift in criminal activities includes organized crime, white-collar crime, and cybercrime.The increased use and access...

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND license. This book offers a theory of trafficking and modern slavery with implications for policy. Despite economic development, modern slavery persists all around the world. The issue is not only one of crime but the regulation of the economy,...

This article examines how mortgage fraud is organised in the United Kingdom, what the crime-commissioning processes are for its occurrence and what exogenous conditions and influences support its existence and its capacity to reproduce. The article aims to extend understanding beyond the...

Fraud is the most frequently experienced crime in the UK, yet significantly underreported. Despite its prevalence, understanding and addressing fraud remains challenging. This paper applies the interdisciplinary framework of 'wicked problems' to fraud, proposing a novel approach to categorise...

The Journal of Economic Criminology aims to facilitate discussion among different academic disciplines and practice areas on how people should work together to better understand and address economic crime problems. In this editorial to the very first volume of the journal, Editors in Chief...

This paper sets out the case for economic criminology. It argues 'economic criminology' is more than just a prefix that brings scholars and papers together exploring economic crime. The paper argues that crimes associated with economic criminology are a significant societal problem that deserves...

This article has two main objectives. First, to interrogate the concept and/or conception of "economic crime" (framed as a singular thing). We argue that current policy, and subsequently, social scientific (or criminological more specifically) framings, tend to arbitrarily 'carve up' the objects...

It is difficult to imagine a more heinous crime than the sexual abuse of children. Yet, terrifyingly, a new case of child sexual abuse is reported every seven minutes. In response to this crisis, self-appointed groups of citizens are fashioning themselves as 'paedophile hunters.' Operating...

How do gangs compete for extortion? Using detailed data on individual extortion payments to gangs and sales from a leading wholesale distributor of consumer goods and pharmaceuticals in El Salvador, we document evidence on the determinants of extortion payments and the effects of extortion on...

School shootings are often motivated by the perpetrators' desire for media attention and notoriety. As school shootings receive intense regional and national media coverage, a high likelihood for copycat attacks can be expected. We investigate whether a copycat effect can be detected in US...

Dating violence is a serious public health concern both per se and because victimization in the young adult years can be a precursor to more severe incidents of domestic violence later, in the context of cohabitation or marriage. To date, no quantitative studies have examined dating violence...

How do gangs compete for extortion? Using detailed data on individual extortion payments to gangs and sales from a leading wholesale distribution firm in El Salvador, we document new evidence on the determinants of extortion payments and the economic costs of extortion via pass-through. We...

Economic Crime and Economic Criminology -- Fraud -- Bribery and Corruption -- Cartel and Antitrust Offences -- Economic Cybercrime -- Intellectual Property Crime and Illicit Trade -- Industrial and Economic Espionage -- Money Laundering -- Explaining Economic Crime -- Economic Crime: Law and...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the literature on white-collar crime that combines the perspectives of criminology and management sciences research. Design/methodology/approach Based on a systematic review of white-collar crime recidivism, this paper defines crime and...

Purpose Child criminal exploitation (CCE) emerges from the complex interplay between potential targets, motivated perpetrators and conducive environments. Drawing on contextual safeguarding and rational choice theory. The purpose of this paper is to explain the relational dynamics that lead to...

This article seeks to sketch the criminological underpinnings of the Second Amendment right to arms. Most agree with prohibiting possession of firearms by convicted felons, violent misdemeanants and the mentally unbalanced as our laws currently do. But an insistent and articulate minority argues...

The economic analysis of crime points out to the link between economics and criminology. Many researchers starting from Engels, Bonger, Pausukanis, Kirchheimer, William Chambliss, Richard Quinney and others make a correlation between economics and criminology. Crime is closely associated with...

In three distinct disciplines, crime and punishment are studied experimentally: in empirical legal studies, in experimental economics, and an experimental criminology. These three disciplines have surprisingly little interaction. The current paper surveys the rich evidence, and discusses the...

This chapter considers four questions. First, a conceptual question: to what extent can migration control be considered a criminological problem? Second, an empirical question: what harms flow from contemporary migration control practices and to what extent can these be construed as a form of...

Данная статья посвящена особенностям уголовно-исполнительной характеристики пенитенциарных преступлений за счет анализа статистических данных и выделение...

An agent-based simulation was created to examine key parameters in mass shootings. The goal of the simulation was to examine the potential effectiveness of Senator Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) assault weapons and high-capacity magazines bill. Based on the analysis, the proposed law would...

В статье рассмотрены некоторые проблемные вопросы подготовки специалистов в вузах МВД по таким учебным дисциплинам, как криминалистика, судебная экспертиза,...

В статье приводятся и анализируются взгляды видных отечественных ученых -криминалистов первой половины ХХ века. Оценен вклад пионеров российской...

Originally, behavioral law and economics was an exercise in exploring the implications of key findings from behavioral economics (and psychology) for the analysis and reform of legal institutions. Yet as the new discipline matures, it increasingly replaces foreign evidence by fresh evidence,...

Originally, behavioral law and economics was an exercise in exploring the implications of key findings from behavioral economics (and psychology) for the analysis and reform of legal institutions. Yet as the new discipline matures, it increasingly replaces foreign evidence by fresh evidence,...

Migrant smuggling is a dangerous, sometimes deadly, criminal activity. Failing to respond effectively to migrant smuggling and deter it will risk emboldening those who engage in this illicit enterprise, which generates proceeds for organized crime and criminal networks, funds terrorism and...

Обозначены актуальные направления криминалистических исследований в современных условиях. Выявлены недостатки в организации научных исследований в...