Corruption, greed and crime-money : sleaze and shady economy in Europe and beyond / Petrus C. van Duyne ... [et al, eds.

Format:

• Book
• Conference/Event

Contributor:

• Duyne, Petrus C. van.
• Charles H. Maxson Fund.

Conference Name:

• Crossborder Crime Colloquium (14th : 2013 : Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Corruption--Europe--Congresses.
• Commercial crimes--Europe--Congresses.
• Commercial crimes.
• Corruption.
• Europe.

Genre:

• Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

iv, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oisterwijk, Netherlands : Wolf Legal Publishers, [2014]

Summary:

Corruption, economic and organised crime continues to affect European society as anywhere in the world. It seeps through every crack of the structures of civil society: whether it concerns trade and industry, the public administration or the governments. This is not an outside threat against which society can defend itself by establishing more defence mechanisms. It originates from within as the driving force - greed - is not an outside driver. It manifests itself in perverse reward systems within enterprises, disinterested governments, ill-considered law enforcement policies, greedy power games of authorities, or the still prevalent lenient approach to white collar crime. Within these institutional weaknesses one must always search for actors of flesh and blood: from captains of industry to the street cop; from the power builders in board rooms to the clerk at his desk. At all levels greed satisfaction through corrupt rent seeking contributes to a weakening of our social fabric. This is not a very surprising observation. Basically it is the same old song: retrospectively humans remain true to themselves in manifesting the same basic greedy criminal conduct over time and space. One would almost resign to such a tedious story, if it were not for the good message: one always finds counter-movements working against such abuses. Whether and to what extent such counter-movements are coherent and cost-effective is difficult to judge, though all these lofty intentions must be followed with a critical eye. The crime-money hunt has a quarter-century history by now, but the crime-monies still abound; all new EU Member States have Anti Corruption Agencies, but corruption continues to be rampant in those countries; the financial sector has been turned inside out, but old habits have returned. This thirteenth volume of the Cross-border Crime Colloquium, a mainstay in the critical discourse on crime and crime-control in Europe, contains the peer-reviewed contributions of 27 international experts shedding tight on the wide range of topics related to greed and crime: corruption, money laundering, underground economy and criminal financial policy. The chapters are based on empirical data or critical theorising and highlight new aspects of this field. Book jacket.

Contents:

• Greed: the deadly sin as red thread-An introduction / Petrus C. van Duyne Duyne, Petrus C. van 1
• Multinational anti-corruption self-regulation in the pharmaceutical sector: evidence of (in)effectiveness / Anna Di Ronco Ronco, Anna Di 21
• Ethics and systemic corruption: assessing ethics policy of Romanian public administration / Radu Nicolae Nicolae, Radu 47
• Shadows of corruption and bribery - Can we see through? / Miroslav Scheinost Scheinost, Miroslav 73
• Political scandal and anti-corruption debates in Serbia / Marija Zurnic Zurnic, Marija 93
• Analysing media representation of corruption in Ukraine: who is panicking? / Anna Markovska Markovska, Anna, Alexey Serdyuk Serdyuk, Alexey 121
• Different manifestations of organised crime and corruption in Italy: a socio-legal analysis / Anita Lavorgna Lavorgna, Anita, Anna Sergi Sergi, Anna 139
• The Multilateral response in tackling the crime - terror nexus: The EU contribution / Daniela Irrera Irrera, Daniela 163
• Reconciling the anti-money laundering compliance duties and the commercial objectives of the bank / Mihaela Sandulescu Sandulescu, Mihaela 185
• AML and the political power weight / Jackie Harvey Harvey, Jackie, Michael Hutchinson Hutchinson, Michael, Adam Peacock Peacock, Adam 211
• Greedy of crime-money. The reality and ethics of asset recovery / Petrus C. van Duyne Duyne, Petrus C. van, Wouter de Zanger Zanger, Wouter de, François H.G. Kristen Kristen, François H.G. 235
• Land of opportunities. The illicit trade in cigarettes in the United States / Klaus von Lampe Lampe, Klaus von, Marin Kuril Kuril, Marin, John Bae Bae, John 267
• Human trafficking policy making and the politics of international criminal justice. A case study of sexual exploitation / Jon Spencer Spencer, Jon 291
• The death of the legitimate merchant? Small to medium-size enterprises and shady decisions in Greece during the financial crisis / Georgios A. Antonopoulos Antonopoulos, Georgios A., Steve. Hall Hall, Steve. 313
• Inner contradictions of economic crime control / Matjaz Jager Jager, Matjaz, Katja Šugman Stubbs Stubbs, Katja Šugman 337
• Bestiarum vocabulum of economic crime: excerpts from the Slovene volume 1996-2010 / Ciril Keršmanc Keršmanc, Ciril 355
• Boom and bust in financial and housing markets: re-readings through Schumpeter and Bourdieu / Nicholas Dom Dom, Nicholas 383.

Notes:

• "This volume contains a selection of peer reviewed papers based on the presentations of the authors at the fourteenth Crossborder Crime Colloquium, hosted 12-14 May 2013 by Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge."--T. p. verso.
• Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Charles H. Maxson Fund.

ISBN:

• 9789462401280
• 9462401284

OCLC:

879528637

Publisher Number:

99969514190

Online:

The Charles H. Maxson Fund Home Page