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Understanding and Addressing Criminal Opportunity: The Application of Situational Crime Prevention to IS Security
Robert WillisonThis paper examines the concept of criminal opportunity. More precisely, it focuses on the nature of such opportunities that are to be found within an IS context, and the threat…
The Economic Impact of Proper Administration of Justice
Raj SoopramanienThere has been a gradual change in the perception of the role of the justice system in the development process. In earlier days, there was a general perception that justice and…
The Mutual Evaluation Process: A Methodology of Increasing Importance at International Level
Riccardo SansonettiThis paper describes the experience of the mutual evaluations of the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF) that have been carried out since 1992. It focuses on…
The Control of Insider Trading — Smoke and Mirrors!
Barry A.K. RiderThere was a time in Britain when even senior representatives of the financial services industry were prepared to be quoted in the press as expressing doubts as to whether there…
Letter of Credit Fraud
B.V. KumarIn spite of built‐in checks and due diligence procedures adopted and implemented by governmental agencies, financial institutions and insurance companies, nothing can prevent…
Japan and UK: The Financial ‘Big Bang’ — Lenders' Liability and Consumer Protection
Mitsue Miyajima‘Japan's amazing ability to disappoint.’ This was the title on the front cover of the Economist, 26th September, 1998 issue. Although this referred to Japan's government's…
Singapore: A Money‐Laundering Update
Ravi ChandranThough there are no reported cases on the matter, Singapore, with its well‐developed financial centre, is the target of money launderers just like any other major city in the…
South Africa: Proposals to Combat White‐Collar Crime at National Level
Janette Minnaar‐van VeijerenIn this paper the legislative and regulatory role of the South African government with regard to the combating of white‐collar crime will be delineated. Five major relevant…
South Asia: Precursor Control — Current and Emerging Trends
D.C. JayasuriyaAccording to UNDCP's World Drug Report published in 1997, the illicit drug industry's annual turnover is estimated to be US$400bn, roughly equivalent to 8 per cent of total…
Southern Italy: White Caterpillar, Grey Chrysalis, Black Butterfly: Organised Crime, Financial Crime and Entrepreneurial Distress
Donato MasciandaroThe present study provides an economic and empirical framework to examine the role of organised crime in an entrepreneurial crisis. The effect of criminal pollution on law firms…
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
hybridEditors:
- Dr Li Hong Xing
- Prof Barry Rider