financial corporate crime: from typology to criminology

Criminology of Computer Crime

With the huge growth in computer connectivity and usage over the last decade there has never been such a wealth of opportunity for prospective criminals. While motives tend not to change, the variety and number of opportunities for cyber crime are constantly growing (Grabosky, 2000). Given the increase in computer and internet-based crime, it is surprising to note that “there have been very few...

Schizophrenia: Causes, Crime, and Implications for Criminology and Criminal Justice

This paper is aimed at criminologists and criminal justicians seeking to understand their role in educating law enforcement and correctional personnel who must deal with the mentally ill. It is motivated by William Johnson’s (2011) recent call for rethinking the interface between mental illness, criminal justice, and academia, and his call for advocacy. We concur with his concerns, and insist t...

Crime, Criminal Justice, and Criminology in the Netherlands

Corporate Response to Distress: Evidence from the Asian Financial Crisis

This paper provides a comprehensive examination of corporate responses to financial distress during an economy-wide crisis, specifically through the restructuring of assets (through asset sales, mergers, or liquidations) and/or liabilities. Using firm-level data from five countries hardest hit by the East Asian financial crisis of 1997-98, this study contrasts the effects that financial and cor...

Competitive Pressure and Corporate Crime

This paper explores the relationship between the intensity of competition in product markets and firms’ incentives to lower their production costs by illegal means. Our framework combines a Salop circle with a crime model à la Becker, allowing us to differentiate between several measures for the intensity of competition. We establish that more firms in the industry (i.e., lower entry costs) red...

Busting Financial Crime with TIBCO