Contemporary Economic Crime - Issues and Challenges

This edited collection explores the culpability of corporate bodies and international organisations and examines the different responses to economic offences such as money laundering, bribery and corruption, cybercrime, market manipulation, insider trading and market abuse.

List of contents

Introduction
Part one: Money Laundering
1. Open Banking in Australia: Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Considerations
Doron Goldbarsht and Samuel Orchard
2. Money Laundering Challenges in the United Kingdom (UK)
Craig Hughes and David C. Hicks
3. Illicit offshore finance: Examining the measures adopted by the United Kingdom to enhance corporate transparency
Paul Gilmour and Branislav Hock
Part two: Corruption
4. 'Help At Any Cost'- Impacts and Enablers of Corruption in Humanitarian Sector
Dolapo Fakuade
5. Critical analysis of the legal framework for corporate anti-bribery policies: The United Kingdom and Colombian approaches
Yudy Paola Pinzon Fernandez
6. The End of a Corruption-Free Era? The Story of Hong Kong
Horace Yeung and Flora Huang
7. Is it Possible to Fight Corruption in a Post-Communist Captured State? The Case of Bulgaria
Radosveta Vassileva


Part three: Corporate Crimes: Challenges and solutions
8. Civil False Claims Act: An Effective Anti- Corporate Fraud Remedy?
Penelope Giosa
9. Unethical and Unlawful Behaviour by Global Banks: Implications for Human Rights
Stephen Schneider
10. A Critique of Corporate Criminal Liability in the US: How Fraud Swallows Everything: Policing What Corporations Say Instead of What They DoJ.S. Nelson
11. Corporate Criminal Liability: Shifting the Burden of Cost to the Private Sector
Georgia Bufton
12. Are Traditional Laws Fit for Purpose? A Critique of International Law governing the Criminal Liability of Digital Providers for Cyber-Sex-Trafficking
Michala Meiselles

About the author

Michala Meiselles is Senior Law Lecturer at Derby University's Law School. She sits on the RASSO and hate crimes scrutiny panels for the Crown Prosecution Service in the East Midlands and has advised UNESCO on online safety and digital rights. Moreover, she is director of an inter-institutional think tank dedicated to corporate crime which explores white-collar crime, cybercrime and modern slavery. Her research and teaching activities focus inter alia on financial crime, cybercrime, and the role of digital providers in the fight against cybercrime.
Nicholas Ryder is a Professor of Financial Crime at Cardiff University's School of Law and Politics and has played advisory roles both nationally (e.g. for the Home Office, the Home Affairs Select Committee the Law Commission, Transparency International, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office) and internationally (e.g. NATO, United Nations, Cepol, Europol). He has created and edits Routledge's Law of Financial Crime Series.
Penelope Giosa is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Reading and the Convenor of the SLS (Society of Legal Scholars) Comparative Law section. She has an educational and professional background in both civil and common law systems. Her research interests focus on Competition Law, Public Procurement, Food Law and White-Collar crimes.

Product details

• Authors: Michala Ryder Meiselles
• Assisted by: Penelope Giosa (Editor), Meiselles Michala (Editor), Ryder Nicholas (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 24.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032350042
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3235004-2
• No. of pages: 150
• Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Society
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Criminal law & procedure, LAW / Corporate, LAW / Business & Financial, Politics & government, Corporate crime, Corporate crime / white-collar crime, Politics and government, Legal aspects of criminology, Social Law, Company law, Criminology: legal aspects, Criminal law: procedure and offences, Banking law, Social law and Medical law