Routledge Studies in Crime and Economics

The Anti Money Laundering Complex and the Compliance Industry

By Antoinette Verhage

Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Economics

Financial institutions, as gateways to the financial system, to economic power and possibilities, are one of the major vehicles for money laundering and therefore also represent an important means to prevent this type of crime. The compliance officer symbolises a part of this private investment in...

Published May 30th 2014 by Routledge

Political Economy of Illegal Drugs

By Pierre Kopp

Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Economics

With debates surrounding the decriminalisation of certain illegal drugs raging in many countries around the world, this new book is a timely and sober reflection on one of the biggest social problems facing the world at large. Of interest not only to economists, but also to criminologists and those...

Published April 3rd 2014 by Routledge

An Economic History of Organized Crime

A National and Transnational Approach

By Dennis M.P. McCarthy

Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Economics

This book is a comparative study of organized crime groups from five different parts of the world: Europe; North America; Central America/South America/Caribbean basin; Africa; and Asia/Western Pacific. Each part contains two case studies and a shorter essay, a vignette. From Europe the case...

Published November 11th 2013 by Routledge

Deterrence and Crime Prevention

Reconsidering the prospect of sanction

By David M. Kennedy

Series: Routledge Studies in Crime and Economics

Deterrence is at the heart of the preventive aspiration of criminal justice. Deterrence, whether through preventive patrol by police officers or stiff prison sentences for violent offenders, is the principal mechanism through which the central feature of criminal justice, the exercise of...

Published April 15th 2010 by Routledge