Journal of Financial Crime: Volume 19 Issue 4

The gift that keeps on giving: Does the protection against double jeopardy have any application to international crime?

Tyler W. Hodgson

Various countries have recently passed anti‐corruption and bribery laws that have international jurisdictional reach. The overlapping jurisdiction of these “long arm” statutes…

True and fair financial reporting: a tool for better corporate governance

Fincy Pallisserry

Transparency of financial information promotes corporate growth. The purpose of this paper is to concentrate on the need for strengthening the law governing true and fair…

Documentary letter of credit fraud risk management

Yanan Zhang

The purpose of this paper is to explore and examine, in a systematic manner, possible preventive measures that commercial parties can take in order to prevent or reduce…

The optics of fraud: affiliations that enhance offender credibility

Frank S. Perri, Richard G. Brody

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate how a financial fraud practice, known as affinity fraud, relies on building trust with victims based on shared affiliations or…

Scholarly communication in Journal of Financial Crime, 2006‐2010: a bibliometric study

Kamal Lochan Jena, Dillip K. Swain, K.C. Sahoo

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the scholarly communications in Journal of Financial Crime (JFC) during the last five years and to study the key dimensions of its…

Corruption and control: a corruption reduction approach

Adam Graycar, Aiden Sidebottom

Corruption is a significant financial crime which is estimated by the World Economic Forum to cost about 5 per cent of global GDP or $2.6 trillion dollars. Explanations of…

Policy implications of different theoretical approaches to organised crime

Guy W.E. Williams

The purpose of this paper is to better understand the origins and forms of organised crime and develop policy conclusions for deterrence efforts.

Blunting the Sword of Justice

Barry Rider