Crime and Output

Money for Crime and Money from Crime: Financing crime and laundering crime proceeds

This article summarises briefly what is known internationally about how ‘organised crimes’ are financed and how this differs from the financing of licit businesses. It shows how illicit financing might and does operate, noting that a key issue is the social capital of offenders and their access to illicit finance which ironically, may be easier if controls make it harder to launder money. It th...

An Analysis of Crime and Crime Policy

About the Author Dr Siddhartha Bandyopadhyay is Lecturer in Economics at the University of Birmingham and an internationally recognised scholar in political economy, public choice and development issues. He holds degrees from the Universities of Calcutta and Delhi, and has a PhD from Pennsylvania State University. His work has been published by the Royal Economic Society and in the European Jou...

'e-crime Solutions and Crime Displacement'

1 Drugs , Crime and Crime Reduction

The use of illicit drugs and high rates of crime are strongly associated. Under drug prohibition, drug-consumption and drug trafficking are inevitably defined as offences. Drug-related offences — especially incomegenerating property crime — are also common although psychopharmacological offences and violence between drug traffickers are less prevalent. Drugs and crime are also linked by many co...

Introduction : Crime Mapping and Crime Prevention

Crime maps have only recently begun to emerge as a significant tool in crime and justice. Until a decade ago, few criminal justice agencies had any capability for creating crime maps, and few investigators had the resources or patience to examine the spatial distribution of crime. Today, however, crime mapping is experiencing what might be termed an explosion of interest among both scholars and...