The nature and extent of business crime.

Background

Crimes such as homicide and theft, and drugs such as heroin and cocaine have always been of public concern, and there has been a recent focus on areas such as child sexual abuse, modern slavery, new psychoactive substances, online fraud, and online indecent images of children.

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    Transnational organised crime groups and the difficulties in intervening with illicit finances have been identified as a high-priority concern by the UK government (see Serious and Organised Crime Strategy (SOCS) (2013))...

    Funded by: ESRC

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    Funded by: Innovate UK

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  • The Financial Aspects of the Trade in Counterfeit Products: An Exploratory Study

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