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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
After a career in engineering, David Shepherd completed a PhD at the University of Portsmouth in 2016, supervised by Mark Button. David teaches and conducts research into economic crime. His research covers offending, victims, individuals and organisations, prevention and enforcement. He publishes widely, including the books Economic Crime: From Conception to Response and Commercial and Cyber Fraud: A Legal Guide to Justice for Businesses. Recent research publications cover the grooming of professionals into economic espionage through social media, fraud against older adults and the dishonesty of Britons.
PROFESSOR MARK BUTTON
Mark Button is Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Centre for Cybercrime and Economic Crime at the University of Portsmouth. He was founder and Director of the Centre for Counter Fraud Studies at the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Portsmouth between 2010-2022. Mark has written extensively on counter fraud, cybercrime, cyber-fraud and private policing issues, publishing many articles, chapters and completing eleven books, including Economic Crime: From Conception to Response; Private Policing and Cyber Frauds, Scams and their Victims. Some of the most significant research projects include a Home Office funded study on victims of computer misuse, leading the research on behalf of the National Fraud Authority and ACPO on fraud victims; the Department for International Development on fraud measurement, and an ESRC funded project on ageing and fraud in the UK and South Korea. Mark also worked for four years on the Government’s Annual Cyber Security Breaches Survey. Mark is also a Co-Founder and President of the International Society of Economic Criminology. Mark completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Exeter, his Masters at the University of Warwick and his Doctorate at the London School of Economics.
DR BRANISLAV HOCK
Dr Branislav Hock is Associate Professor in Economic Crime & Compliance at University of Portsmouth. Branislav is a passionate interdisciplinary researcher who thrives in both an academic environment and practice. With a rapidly developing international reputation for excellence in policy-oriented research, Dr Hock has played advisory roles both in the UK (Home Office, FCDO, Synectic Solutions, Crowe) and internationally (UNODC, EU Commission, European Court of Auditors, OECD) in projects related to money laundering, anti-corruption, tax evasion and compliance. He is an author of ‘Extraterritoriality and international bribery: A collective action perspective’, Routledge 2020 and co-author of Economic Crime: From Conception to Response, Routledge 2022. Branislav has established an annual Winter Economic Crime Symposium and serves as the Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Economic Criminology.
