What is the relationship between corporate security, its services to private sector companies or to public sectors agencies, and criminality‘ On the basis of interviews carried out primarily in the Netherlands with senior figures in corporate security and with public prosecutors, the reasons...

Many observers blame regulatory failure for the financial crisis, arguing for closer international coordination of national regulation. This column argues for the opposite. Regulatory convergence creates instability. Instead, regulatory diversity is needed to reduce market herding and the...

Purpose: This paper explores the prospects for and some foreseeable consequences of more intensive enforcement action against insider trading in the context of the UK, within the EU and international contexts. Design/methodology/approach: Qualitative, based on the literature and policy papers,...

Qualitative research was conducted with 15 persons convicted of serious offences in connection with drugs importation into the UK, and with 10 informants of Her Majesty's Customs and Excise, with appropriate safeguards. Objectives included an assessment of smugglers' (planners' and organizers')...

This paper explores two configurations of thinking about crime amongst law enforcement agencies and private sector security managers: ‘risk calculation' (concerned with everyday, calculable probabilities and impacts and their management) and ‘precautionary uncertainty' (concerned with events...

Regulatory convergence — within the E.U., across the Atlantic and internationally — is conventionally represented as not only benign but also as essential in crisis prevention. This paper articulates a different frame of reference: one in which regulators “crowd,” “herd” and...