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...

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...

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...

Victims of crime may experience a wide variety of traumas that result in physical, sexual, financial, psychological, emotional, and/or social consequences. While the types of trauma can vary greatly and include lesser-known forms such as vicarious and secondary trauma, identifying and...

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...

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...

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...

1. Introduction -- 2. Humans and venison -- 3. Victims of progress -- 4. Rural philosophy and natural law -- 5. From a 'modest proposal' to eugenics -- 6. Invisible hand and visible injury -- 7. Value, risk and deviant innovation -- 8. Marginal utility and the hidden economy -- 9. Socialism for...

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...

While safety crimes far outweigh crimes of conventional violence, British criminology continues to operate with rather narrow definitions of violence which exclude these. The aim of this paper is to examine the key ways in which occupational injury and death remain excluded by criminological...