Shedding light inside the black box of implementation: Tax crimes as a predicate crime for money laundering

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...

Crime, Illicit Markets, and Money Laundering

Shedding light on the black box models of the cell

ion as realistic as possible. Such models are extremely useful and can help to identify new properties or elements of biological systems. What is considered the first mathematical model in biology falls into a different category. In the year 1202, long before calculus was invented, the mathematician Fibonacci tried to predict how many rabbits could breed over time in ideal circumstances startin...

Money Laundering and Technology Enabled Crime: a cultural analysis

Over the past decade or so, aided by information and communication technologies, money laundering has seen a sharp increase. While traditionally money laundering was associated with drug cartels and warlords, increasingly the focus has shifted towards white-collar crime and terrorist financing. It is therefore important to understand why money laundering (and hence white-collar crime) comes int...

Inside the Black Box:

Survey methodologists borrowed the think aloud method from cognitive psychology in order to make respondents’ thinking explicit in a variety of tasks. The method has become a central feature of cognitive interviewing to pretest questionnaires. In adapting the method for pretesting, survey researchers changed it in important ways that may have implications for data quality, either for better or ...