Journal of Financial Crime: Volume 13 Issue 2

Designing a civil forfeiture system: an issues list for policymakers and legislators

In recent years an emerging global trend of introducing legislation to use civil procedures against criminal assets can be detected. However, these civil forfeiture models, which…

The enterprise of crime and terror – the implication for good business: Looking to the future – old and new threats

The purpose of this paper is to consider some possible future trends or developments in the fight against organised crime and the terrorist operating ostensibly within the…

Why (some) fraud prosecutions fail

The paper aims to demonstrate the causes of failure of some fraud prosecutions.

The threat posed by transnational political corruption to global commercial and development banking

This paper explores the threat that transnational political corruption poses to both the world's development banking and commercial banking sectors.

Organised crime menaces legitimate business and might lead to corruption: Reflections from a Swiss perspective

It is not enough that international organisations take initiatives in the fight against organised crime. The nation states also have to adapt their domestic legal systems. The…

The business of corruption, or is the business of business corruption?

The purpose of this paper is to examine legal issues in the USA in relation to corruption involving American corporations.

The effects of organized crime on legitimate businesses

The purpose of this paper is to examine the development and nature of organized crime in the USA over the past 50 years, emphasizing organized crime's corruption and victimization…

The cigarette black market in Germany and in the United Kingdom

The research aims at providing a comprehensive assessment of the cigarette black market in Germany and the UK within the framework of the study of organized crime.

Counterfeiting: links to organised crime and terrorist funding

The purpose of this paper is to highlight how terrorists are using counterfeiting to fund their operations.

An overhaul of the systems to deal with fraud in the UK