When
Tuesday, October 14th 2025, from 6pm - 7:30pm BSTWhere
Online via Zoom.Format
There'll be a great line-up of speakers plus ample scope for discussion and debate.About the book...
This book is the first attempt to establish ‘economic crime’ as a new sub-discipline within criminology. Fraud, corruption, bribery, money laundering, price-fixing cartels and intellectual property crimes pursued typically for financial and professional gain, have devastating consequences for the prosperity of economic life. While most police forces in the UK and the USA have an ‘economic crime’ department, and many European bodies such as Europol use the term and develop strategies and structures to deal with it, it is yet to grain traction as a widely used term in the academic community. Economic Crime: From Conception to Response aims to change that and covers:
- definitions of the key premises of economic crime as the academic sub-discipline within criminology;
- an overview of the key research on each of the crimes associated with economic crime;
- public, private and global responses to economic crime across its different forms and sectors of the economy, both within the UK and globally.
This book is an essential resource for students, academics and practitioners engaged with aspects of economic crime, as well as the related areas of financial crime, white-collar crime and crimes of the powerful.
About the authors...
DR DAVID SHEPHERD
Following a career in product and process engineering, David moved into research, focusing on white-collar crime, fraud and corruption. Using quantitative and qualitative methods, David’s research encompasses organisational characteristics and compliance, offender behaviour, security and justice.
PROFESSOR MARK BUTTON
Mark is the Director of the Centre for Cybercrime and Economic Crime at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Portsmouth. They are the focus for research, teaching and knowledge services in counter fraud and related issues.
They have conducted research on a wide range of areas for bodies that include the Home Office, National Fraud Authority, EPSRC, Sentencing Council, Cifas, Midlands Fraud Forum, Crowe Clark Whitehill to name some.
Mark also has an interest in private policing, security management and the regulation of it and have been involved in helping to develop the standards for this for the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime.
DR BRANISLAV HOCK
Dr Branislav Hock is Associate Professor in Economic Crime & Compliance and the Lead of the Economic Crime Research Group at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice (SCCJ). He is an author of Extraterritoriality and International Bribery: A Collective Action Perspective, Routledge 2020. Branislav has been involved in a broad range of research activities, many have been related to Transnational Economic Crime, Anti-Corruption, and Compliance. Branislav is the founding member of the European Compliance Center. Prior to joining the SCCJ, Branislav worked as a researcher at the Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC), where he completed a PhD in anti-corruption law. Branislav was also involved in various other projects: for example, he worked in the Private Office of the Dutch Member of the European Court of Auditors on a performance audit measuring the effectiveness of public procurement of European Union Institutions.
Dr Hock currently supervises doctoral projects in the areas of international corruption and bribery, money-laundering, and corporate compliance, and welcomes PhD proposals on these topics.
